T-Mobile is offering their
T-Mobile High Speed 5G Internet for Life for
$25/Month w/
AutoPay when you
activate a new Home/Small Business Internet Line on an eligible plan or have/add a voice line on an eligible plan (New/Existing Voice Customers).
Thanks to community member
007_bond for finding this deal
Note, this offer/value will be price lock guarantee when you take advantage of this promotional offer.
What is this new Voice Line + Home Internet offer?- T-Mobile postpaid consumers who activate an unlimited Home Internet line and have or activate at least one qualifying paid voice line can save $25 per month on the Home Internet service via monthly bill credits—that's 50% off our regular price after auto pay discount
What plans are eligible?- All consumer voice rate plans are eligible, except $0 subsidized rate plans and customers with Hometown Discount offer pricing
- Only Unlimited Home Internet/Small Business Internet is eligible for this offer; Home Internet Lite and Small Business Internet Lite plans are not eligible
Who is eligible?- T-Mobile postpaid customers who activate at least one eligible HINT line of service and have or activate at least one paid voice line of service qualify for $25 off their Home Internet service
- Customers getting the Hometown Discount offer are not eligible for this Home Internet offer
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I wonder if this is portable as long as you have an oulet for power?
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Have many IP Camera's, Plex server, and other things that require remote access.
Everything now is humming along nicely with Frontier Internet at $65 a month, speedtest 400/300, and Asus RT-AX3000 router. On Samsung S22, T-Mobile shows 5GUC and speedtest 416/100 ... and BOOM, just lost my T-Mobile $10 kickback for going over data while running the speedtest LOL.
Could put up with the slightly slower speed, with hopes it would improve at 1/2 the price, but not worth the hassle if I need to go through hoops.
Im thinking of this as a failover connection for WFH
It doesn't matter if TMO provided a standalone modem or not...there is no physical connection going into the house. #2...having a router built into the modem that you could simply turn off has no implications on speeds or lag if you connect your router
Here is what they said: "I know that, what I meant to say is why not just offer a device without Wi-Fi built in"
Sooo, they're talking about wifi not being built into the router/modem combo, which would imply LAN. No one disputed anything about there being a physical connection into the house for "service" (see why I quoted "service" before?).
Don't talk down to me because you lack reading comprehension skills.
Now, if you're primary usage at home is during rush hour and you live near a freeway, or you're in a tourist area of a big city and you stream on weekends, this is probably a lousy deal . T-mo is looking to maximize the use of their towers and this is one way to do that. It's an advantage if you happen to want to use internet when most phone users aren't.
You can go off label with the service (get service, or now unlimited service, where TMo thinks you are not supposed too). You generally have to go to the store and have the employees give you a gateway, and/or choose another address that gets the unlimited, sign up with that address, then change it online later. I considered doing this because I literally had it at my house a couple years ago (when faster cable agreed to match the price I switched back to cable) but whenever I checked later, it would always say not available at my address. It's also based on local tower load not just signal. You can do similar things with Starlink if it's technically not available for you. It may be more confusing though now that there is both a lite service available everywhere and a unlimited service.
It stands to reason, internet that is in the air all around you is kinda hard to gatekeep from you if you want it bad enough.
The info should be in the Tmo home internet reddit faq if you wanna go down that rabbit hole.
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Here is what they said: "I know that, what I meant to say is why not just offer a device without Wi-Fi built in"
Sooo, they're talking about wifi not being built into the router/modem combo, which would imply LAN. No one disputed anything about there being a physical connection into the house for "service" (see why I quoted "service" before?).
Don't talk down to me because you lack reading comprehension skills.
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Because most people unfortunately never upgrade or use high quality network equipment and rely to the hardware provided to them. Hence, a strong selling point from TMO that you get modem and router for free for only $25 a month without having to buy any other equipment.
I wonder if this is portable as long as you have an oulet for power?
You can get up to 800+ mbps but it all depends on how much utilization is happening on the tower. To get speeds like this you need to be on a 5G UC tower. If you have a 5G UC tower near you, you will likely get 100+ mbps speeds.
T-Mobile 5G Home Internet customers see typical download speeds between 33-182 Mbps, which is great speed for streaming video, surfing the web, working from home and most types of online gaming. Speeds can vary depending on location, signal strength and availability, time of day, and other factors. Our speed projections are based on our analysis of internal and third-party data. See T-Mobile.com/OpenInternet for more information.
"After earlier telling CNET that multiple lines on an account could sign up for the offer -- such as a family plan where not everyone still lives together -- the carrier said on Wednesday that the deal will be limited to one Home Internet line per account. "
Of course for some strange reason, TMo 5G cell phone service IS available at my address (have one), but NOT TMHI.
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Also, seen the posts saying it's not consistent and drops out a lot. I've had it for over a year, maybe longer at this point and can say it is very consistent and maintains speeds between 250-600mbps down depending on distance from modem, and 45-90mbps up. It is way cheaper and way faster and more consistent than comcast was.
As for streaming, that is all we do have had never had issues. Works great. Can be streaming 4K HDR or Dolby Vision at the same time on multiple tvs. Can be streaming 4K and playing online games on Xbox X and multiple phones/iPads. All without issue.
So, for what it is worth, I would suggest giving it a shot if you're thinking about it.