We have been grandfathered into a Simple Choice Plan for ~13 years and just switched over to whatever their comparable current plan is, and only saved $10 (woohoo). What'd you go with? I was looking into prepaid with Tmo but they've been in quite the steady decline for a while now.

Which company was that? Mint moblie?

they all pull this shit.. three different providers besides tm here, just in the last 2-3 years.

and they get away with it, so it continues..

Don't forget that part of the merger was Dish buying Boost Mobile with the supposed intent to build their own network. Which anyone actually paying attention knew would never actually happen. Dish Network says a lot of shit, and follows through with basically none of it.

On July 1, 2020, Dish Network officially purchased Boost Mobile per their agreement with the companies and the United States' Department of Justice. The purchase was valued at $1.4B and transferred 9.3 million customers.[67] The intent of the US government was for Dish to erect a new nationwide wireless mobile network in order to compensate for reduced competition following the Sprint–T-Mobile merger.[citation needed]

However, in the years following the transaction Dish failed to sufficiently grow Boost Mobile's subscriber base and in 2025 announced that it will decommission its 5G network infrastructure, sell most of its wireless spectrum assets to AT&T, and shift Boost Mobile's operating model from a facilities-based network to a mobile virtual network, with its subscribers being hosted on AT&T's wireless network.[68]

T-Mobile followed the timeframe they agreed to for the merger to be approved, which was very public.

On March 11, 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced he will not appeal the judge's decision made during the previous month to reject the state AGs’ lawsuit against the T-Mobile-Sprint merger. He, instead, struck a settlement with the defending parties. The terms of the settlement include making its low-cost T-Mobile Connect plans available in California for at least 5 years, that T-Mobile customers can keep their T-Mobile plans held in February 2019 for a total of five years ...

Hmm... 2020 plus 5 years is... 2025... would you look at the calendar.

Mergers of larger corporations shouldn't be permitted. In fact, any attempt at initiating a merger should instead initiate a breakup.

Yes, they're a company.

Americans really will do anything to avoid actually doing something, won’t you

Yeah, I'm a bit pissed that the military plan is changing. Bill for me is going up around $20.

I also am a fan of Mint Mobile, but IIRC they were bought up by T-Mobile a few years back. I'm waiting for their inevitable enshittification, but riding the wave until it crashes.

If you get government assistance, look into free mobile options, like TAG Mobile.

I thought they ended the reduced home internet program.

Rinse and repeat

A few years ago I tried to buy a couple of phones at a T-Mobile store and they flatly refused to sell to me unless I purchased their monthly phone insurance. The manager openly admitted he knew the practice was illegal but didn't care.

The company is also famous for refusing to pay customers trade in value by fraudulently claiming phones have cracked screens and significant damage.

T-Mobile's been a shit company for years.

US Mobile is still in the "good prices, good service, be nice" phase of their existence. Buy out or enshittification should still be a few years off. It's a fraction of the price of TMO's new rates too.

Damn dude that’s rough.

I pay €15/m for 35GB EU-wide data and unlimited talk/text. Sim only and not an introductory rate. In fact, I’ve been paying the same for years and the only thing that’s changed is my data limit slowly increasing.

I think unlimited plans are roughly double but I don’t use that much.

1 Gbps fiber at home for €50/m but unfortunately they do jack that up slowly over time so you either need to switch providers or lock in again for a promotional rate.

I don’t miss living in the US and getting fucked in the ass by Comcast and the like…

Every time I’ve tried one of MVNOs I’ve got shit service at my work. I’m affected by this new price hike from T-Mobile so I’m going to try one again but not expecting great results.

The big companies give line prio over mvno clients.

telcos

Are we Australians rubbing off on the international English lexicon? I don't know how to feel about this haha

Switched to an MVNO and have been quite happy with it. Cut bill by almost 2/3.

MVNOs do have a lower data priority than the parent network, but IME this hasn't made much difference. I don't tend to stream a lot of video on my phone though, so it might be a concern if you need fast data.

On the backup line you can subscribe to the cheapest data-only plan for like $5 a month and then just add $20 worth of pay-as-you-go credit, which never expires and will be used for calls, at 1 cent per minute.

It will save you $5 a month on the backup phone plan, making it even cheaper.

I've been on and off tello for like 10 years now, currently they hold my second line, and they are good... assuming you don't need cs beyond 'turn it off and back on', and the towers you frequent aren't overloaded. If I try and use my data on the tello sim at any time except in the dead of night (1a-4a), everything is timing out. This local tower is way oversubscribed.

Also, their unlimited isn't true unlimited, as are all mvnos. After... 50gb (surprising, they doubled it in the last few months apparently) it's like 64kb/s. Which is quite a lot of data, and technically it's not a hard cap so it's not outright lying, but it's not really unlimited. I've always hated this 'well technically' bullshit, so I call it out every time I see it, for the people who don't know.

per line, so if you have family its so much higher.

I'm using Cricket wireless. $45/mo gets me unlimited internet on my phone with a 15gig hotspot.

I'm all physical media, but if I need to download something, I do it on my phone (sorry, seeders) and transfer it over to my PC to watch on my TV.