T-Mobile Project 10 Million: 100GB of Mobile Data/Year + Mobile Hotspot
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T-Mobile is hosting their T-Mobile Project 10 Million (Working to Connect Every Student) and offering 100GB of Mobile Data/Year + Mobile Hotspot (& opportunity to purchase select devices at a low price) for Free valid for Eligible Families/Studentsw/o Internet Connection and are enrolled in the National School Lunch Program for 5-Years time span listed below.
Thanks to community member Brandi94 for finding this deal
Note, during congestion, customers may notice speeds lower than other customers due to data prioritization.
We're committed to helping 10 million eligible households over the next 5 years. Eligible families are those who don't have an internet connection and are enrolled in the National School Lunch program. If selected, the family will receive 100GB of mobile data per year and a FREE mobile hotspot, plus the opportunity to purchase devices at a low cost.
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Limited-time offer; subject to change. Available lines are limited. Intended for student mobile connectivity. Must verify student National School Lunch Program eligibility. 1 offer per household. Confirm your program can accept free equipment and/or service. Roaming not available. Annual data service ends at earlier of 100GB or 365 days. Video streams at up to 1.5Mbps. Optimization may affect speed of video downloads; does not apply to video uploads. For best performance, leave any video streaming applications at their default automatic resolution setting. Optional educational filtering may prevent some video streaming or other content. Coverage not available in some areas. Network Management: Service may be slowed, suspended, terminated, or restricted for misuse, abnormal use, interference with our network or ability to provide quality service to other users, or roaming. See T-Mobile.com/OpenInternet for details. See Terms and Conditions (including arbitration provision) at www.T-Mobile.com for additional information.
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Not sure of your math (or concern) but considering farmers have a $10 billion subsidy for rural internet (never mind roads, education etc) and we directly give $40 billion to farmers (who are not going hungry) maybe we can help poor children? Kudos to Tmob
100G/12months,8.xG/month.
I believe the 100G runs out quickly. Zoom meetings, youtube all need much data.
But thank T-mobile gives help to kids who need a free hotspot.
I think he meant "runs out fast" (quantity) rather than "runs fast" (speed).
He meant Zoom/YouTube consume a lot of data (quantity), not that they need high bandwidth (speed).
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- where would those 2B go if we don't help those students with them? I'm assuming you would want to lower taxes. Ok we have 330M people in this country. Let's assume only half would get that money. $2B/165M people = 12 bucks each person a year. Would you rather get $12 more a year or help 10M students not go hungry in school. Also you will not get that money since it will probably go as tax breaks for corporations and the rich before you see why of it. So you'd be lucky if you get a buck a year.
(Looking at their post history) they'd take the $12, or even the $1, over helping others.
While we don't agree on much, I do totally agree with you about data caps. there should not be any. In the early 2000's, yes, there was a lot of infrastructure to pay for. At this point in time it should be built into the price like long distance. And yes, I do remember when calling a relatively short distance was considered long distance. It's a money grab for sure.
And yes, I know it sounded harsh, really didn't mean it to be. It's the NY'er in me.
I also do think socialism is a bad thing. Talk to folks from Russia or Venezula. There is a reason they are here. And I have struggled. Many years ago while unemployed, what money I did have went to pay rent. I ate many meals at my parents house and friends houses. The only thing I ate at home was cheap store brand mac and cheese, oatmeal or rice with hot sauce. To this day I still can't touch mac and cheese :-) Good times - Not.
Also, Thank you. Our conversation shows that while we disagree with each other, it is easy to have a respectful conversation without disparaging the others point of view.
Have to say, this thread has been eye-opening and saddening.
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now parents dont have to choose between cigarettes and their kids internet access..
This says more about you than them.
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Sadly you are already signed up. And you get the newsletter every year around April 15.
So true. This is one of those times SD needs a sad face emoji.
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Anyone applied and know the pricing on the low cost devices ? I want to apply to get a device for my daughter for zoom but not sure if its worth it..
"Not sure if it's worth it"?
If you're eligible, and you're in need of a device for her, why wouldn't you apply?
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Rural area and TMO,
bad combination.
I heartily disagree. I've been in an area for 2+ decades of crappy cellular service, to the point that 7yrs ago I gave it up completely. Recently signed up for Mint after using T-Mobile's Test Drive and discovering I can get a signal now. Rural area + TMO = Win!!
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They will, just as Verizon and Comcast has increased their fees to subsidize their low-cost internet plans that most responsible people can't quality for.
Just to clarify, you feel people who have been impacted financially by the pandemic are irresponsible?
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Please don't pick on the poor farmers.
You were describing family farms, the other person was describing the corp farms that receive billions.
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100/gb per year isnt much. Distance learning with all day zoom or google classroom meet uses up around 20gb/month. So 100gb wont last long. Just a heads up
Most likely, poor districts and rural area schools don't have all day zoom / google class. This will enable students to have a check in session with their teacher daily, a weekly meet up of the class, and schoolwork uploads/downloads.
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Yes. I've been preaching this for years....
It is especially a low amount if you are rural and have no other internet access option. I suppose some is better than nothing - but 8.33GB a month will go by in a literal flash.
0.556 a day is more than sufficient for the need. (100GB / 180 school days)
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How things have changed. When I was a kid I got to sit and watch my friends eat lunch and get their milk breaks. I guess nowadays I would have gotten support.
NSLP began in 1946.
Unless you're over 80yo, if you were going hungry at school as a child, that's on your family.
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What about for low income and/or elderly ? My 95 year old grandma is melting away alone due to covid and T-Mobile promised some $25 super cheap plan before the merger approval
Check into low cost home internet for her, that would be a better option so she can stream shows, video chat with family and friends, etc. SSI recipients are eligible. What large ISPs are in her area?
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T-Mobile is one of the worst. Their customer service is a joke and tech support is pathetic. I have had an account with them for over 10 years. They are also seriously dishonest in what they offer and what they deliver.
Use Google FI, it runs on their towers and a few others and is cheaper and better. With Good Customer support and great tech support.
So you've had service with them for 10yrs, you recommend their towers, but they're "the worst". mkay.
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This is a human right. It's a necessity. Now the new government will give every person : free internet, free education, free student loans, free healthcare.
But somehow , we have to pay for water and electricity. Is this not a necessity?
I agree that clean water is a necessity. The government agrees to a certain extent, which is why landlords cannot rent domiciles without access to water, and why most places include water because if the tenant doesn't pay it the landlord has to pay it anyway to rent to the next tenant.
Unsure why some cities charge so much and others charge very little though... I used to pay upwards of a $100mo before moving here, now I pay $12mo (was $11.55mo till last year).
Electricity is not a necessity of life. You won't die without it, although in some colder regions you may die without heat which is why programs like HEAP (Home Energy Assistance Program) exist.
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It's funny how you intentionally omitted the part about families.
"Valid for Eligible Families/Students w/o Internet Connection"
Eligible families = income. It's highly unlikely the children have paying jobs. Your attempts at pretending to be obtuse are getting old.
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Thanks for the clarification. But 100gb/month is like offering breadcrumbs to a starving family. I have 3gb data on my Mint Mobile plan. A few months ago I wanted to see how my phone with this plan works as a hotspot so I turned off my home's cable wifi and connected my kids laptops and my TV's Roku to the hotspot. To be fair I manually set YouTube & Roku settings to lowest resolution of 480p & Data Saver option. I even turned off Windows 10 updates on metered connections. Youtube with 480p looked terrible on the large screen by the way. The three of us used up 3gb in one single evening. 100gb per year is a joke. In my family it will be used up in a month even in the lowest resolution for YouTube and no Windows 10 updates.
You're comparing apples and oranges. You're taking a household of people accustomed to privilege streaming to a large screen *pearl clutch* and it looks terrible, and comparing it to a household who does not have home internet and needs it for schoolwork.
While it is a very low amount (0.556GB a day) it's enough for the intended purpose.
I heartily disagree. I've been in an area for 2+ decades of crappy cellular service, to the point that 7yrs ago I gave it up completely. Recently signed up for Mint after using T-Mobile's Test Drive and discovering I can get a signal now. Rural area + TMO = Win!!
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Most likely, poor districts and rural area schools don't have all day zoom / google class. This will enable students to have a check in session with their teacher daily, a weekly meet up of the class, and schoolwork uploads/downloads.
Tmobile coverage, ...depends. It's generally considered to lag behind Verizon and ATT in rural areas a fair amount (the maps don't always match reality). This is on rural internet forums, where most of us rely on cell for home internet (because cell usually beats current satellite internet, doesn't take much to do that in a lot of places). I'd have to drive 50 miles to hit the edge of Tmobile service, and it's in a very limited area there, doesn't travel well beyond the highways (was a Sprint area), and doesn't offer the home service in that location. Making a generalized statement about the coverage doesn't really work, it depends on the area.
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Very few here and in several surrounding areas have home internet capable of supporting (much) streaming video. The DSL in the village can't, can't do audio without cutting out. And, where there is rural fiber, it's sometimes ...gimped. The fiber I'm closest to is pay for use, no unlimited, $20 plus $0.20 per gig used. I'm 7 miles from the end of that, the other village it's out of is 16 miles (my village is 15), they are a little smaller village with a population of about 80, surrounding area averages less than 1 person per square mile.
Anyway, school was never shut down this school year in most of the area, everywhere I know of, classes as normal as possible. Same with most workers in the state, most are "essential", things didn't change all that much, relatively.
This offer would be handy, Viasat's cheapest plan starts at $110 in my zip (35GB before well under 1Mbps (from about 5Mbps or so), and full time 360p streaming).
This offer would be handy, Viasat's cheapest plan starts at $110 in my zip (35GB before well under 1Mbps (from about 5Mbps or so), and full time 360p streaming).
This gave me a chuckle... Viasat's best plan here is $70mo for a whopping 12/3Mbps with the small print: "After 40 GB of high-speed data is used, we may prioritize your data behind other customers during network congestion, which will result in slower speeds."
But that's what happens when you live in a rural area with limited/no options.
This gave me a chuckle... Viasat's best plan here is $70mo for a whopping 12/3Mbps with the small print: "After 40 GB of high-speed data is used, we may prioritize your data behind other customers during network congestion, which will result in slower speeds."
But that's what happens when you live in a rural area with limited/no options.
Best here is also 12/3, but 60GB, 720p, and $210. People don't see 5Mbps much before the threshold.
Thanks for the education - a few facts - so that you too might be educated --
Venezuela's undoing has its roots in the Hugo Chavez era, which started in the 1990s and was socialist. Here is a wikipedia article that might educate you - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Venezuela[wikipedia.org]
A little more education on Venezula - from CNN[cnn.com]
Unless you have actually been there in good times and in it's current state, it's truly hard to imagine how bad things have gotten. Having been there many times, even in good times the US greenback was king, usually fetching a pretty good discount over credit cards or the bolivar. While we can debate the technicalities of their government, which has a very socialist backbone i don't think there is any debate that Chavez and Maduro wrecked that country. This is something that would be good for the US. And yes, for the majority of folks, socialism is a bad thing.
Thanks for the education - a few facts - so that you too might be educated --
Venezuela's undoing has its roots in the Hugo Chavez era, which started in the 1990s and was socialist. Here is a wikipedia article that might educate you - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Venezuela[wikipedia.org]
A little more education on Venezula - from CNN[cnn.com]
Unless you have actually been there in good times and in it's current state, it's truly hard to imagine how bad things have gotten. Having been there many times, even in good times the US greenback was king, usually fetching a pretty good discount over credit cards or the bolivar. While we can debate the technicalities of their government, which has a very socialist backbone i don't think there is any debate that Chavez and Maduro wrecked that country. This is something that would be good for the US. And yes, for the majority of folks, socialism is a bad thing.
Hugo and Maduro didn't wreck their country. US's flawed foreign policy and sanctions did. Everywhere we interfered has been ruined. Libya, Iraq, Iran (70's) Afghanistan (80's), Syria, Somalia, Yugoslavia... list is endless. Vietnam defeated us and they are thriving. Do watch Tom Cruise's American Made based on a true story about how our See Eye Aey funded and armed thugs in central and south America to counter Soviet Union's influence there, and how they turned a blind eye to narcotics.
Hugo and Maduro didn't wreck their country. US's flawed foreign policy and sanctions did. Everywhere we interfered has been ruined. Libya, Iraq, Iran (70's) Afghanistan (80's), Syria, Somalia, Yugoslavia... list is endless. Vietnam defeated us and they are thriving. Do watch Tom Cruise's American Made based on a true story about how our See Eye Aey funded and armed thugs in central and south America to counter Soviet Union's influence there, and how they turned a blind eye to narcotics.
No words but thanks for the laugh. The worlds problems did not start here but I guess thats what is fed to younger minds in school.
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I believe the 100G runs out quickly. Zoom meetings, youtube all need much data.
But thank T-mobile gives help to kids who need a free hotspot.
He meant Zoom/YouTube consume a lot of data (quantity), not that they need high bandwidth (speed).
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And yes, I know it sounded harsh, really didn't mean it to be. It's the NY'er in me.
I also do think socialism is a bad thing. Talk to folks from Russia or Venezula. There is a reason they are here. And I have struggled. Many years ago while unemployed, what money I did have went to pay rent. I ate many meals at my parents house and friends houses. The only thing I ate at home was cheap store brand mac and cheese, oatmeal or rice with hot sauce. To this day I still can't touch mac and cheese :-) Good times - Not.
Also, Thank you. Our conversation shows that while we disagree with each other, it is easy to have a respectful conversation without disparaging the others point of view.
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If you're eligible, and you're in need of a device for her, why wouldn't you apply?
bad combination.
It is especially a low amount if you are rural and have no other internet access option. I suppose some is better than nothing - but 8.33GB a month will go by in a literal flash.
Unless you're over 80yo, if you were going hungry at school as a child, that's on your family.
Use Google FI, it runs on their towers and a few others and is cheaper and better. With Good Customer support and great tech support.
But somehow , we have to pay for water and electricity. Is this not a necessity?
Unsure why some cities charge so much and others charge very little though... I used to pay upwards of a $100mo before moving here, now I pay $12mo (was $11.55mo till last year).
Electricity is not a necessity of life. You won't die without it, although in some colder regions you may die without heat which is why programs like HEAP (Home Energy Assistance Program) exist.
"Valid for Eligible Families/Students w/o Internet Connection"
While it is a very low amount (0.556GB a day) it's enough for the intended purpose.
That's your opinion. I don't agree, though.
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Most likely, poor districts and rural area schools don't have all day zoom / google class. This will enable students to have a check in session with their teacher daily, a weekly meet up of the class, and schoolwork uploads/downloads.
...
Very few here and in several surrounding areas have home internet capable of supporting (much) streaming video. The DSL in the village can't, can't do audio without cutting out. And, where there is rural fiber, it's sometimes ...gimped. The fiber I'm closest to is pay for use, no unlimited, $20 plus $0.20 per gig used. I'm 7 miles from the end of that, the other village it's out of is 16 miles (my village is 15), they are a little smaller village with a population of about 80, surrounding area averages less than 1 person per square mile.
Anyway, school was never shut down this school year in most of the area, everywhere I know of, classes as normal as possible. Same with most workers in the state, most are "essential", things didn't change all that much, relatively.
This offer would be handy, Viasat's cheapest plan starts at $110 in my zip (35GB before well under 1Mbps (from about 5Mbps or so), and full time 360p streaming).
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a little work and you can probably find better options
But that's what happens when you live in a rural area with limited/no options.
But that's what happens when you live in a rural area with limited/no options.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gov..._Venezuela [wikipedia.org]
Venezuela's undoing has its roots in the Hugo Chavez era, which started in the 1990s and was socialist. Here is a wikipedia article that might educate you - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Venezuela [wikipedia.org]
A little more education on Venezula - from CNN [cnn.com]
Unless you have actually been there in good times and in it's current state, it's truly hard to imagine how bad things have gotten. Having been there many times, even in good times the US greenback was king, usually fetching a pretty good discount over credit cards or the bolivar. While we can debate the technicalities of their government, which has a very socialist backbone i don't think there is any debate that Chavez and Maduro wrecked that country. This is something that would be good for the US. And yes, for the majority of folks, socialism is a bad thing.
Venezuela's undoing has its roots in the Hugo Chavez era, which started in the 1990s and was socialist. Here is a wikipedia article that might educate you - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Venezuela [wikipedia.org]
A little more education on Venezula - from CNN [cnn.com]
Unless you have actually been there in good times and in it's current state, it's truly hard to imagine how bad things have gotten. Having been there many times, even in good times the US greenback was king, usually fetching a pretty good discount over credit cards or the bolivar. While we can debate the technicalities of their government, which has a very socialist backbone i don't think there is any debate that Chavez and Maduro wrecked that country. This is something that would be good for the US. And yes, for the majority of folks, socialism is a bad thing.
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