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I just received my text that my plan will be going up $5 per line. I checked in my T-Mobile plan options and the new price is already there.

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Last Edited by etronz May 22, 2024 at 06:07 PM
If your are a resident of Texas, T-Mobile cannot raise your rates until April 1st, 2025: https://www.texasattorneygeneral....int-merger

If you get this price hike notification and are a Texan, please file a complaint with the state attorney general's office and an informal FCC complaint citing the settlement between the state of Texas and the merged/new T-Mobile.

There are several other states that also negotiated 5 years of no price increases through various attorney generals and PUCs. However, most states were spineless and only got the 3 year protection agreed to by T-Mobile, Sprint, the FCC, the courts, and the US attorney general on April 1st, 2020... enabling the merger with laughable divestures claiming a 4th new carrier would appear out of thin air.

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a4aseph
05-23-2024 at 08:32 AM.
05-23-2024 at 08:32 AM.
Im on 55+ plan paying $70/ month 2 lines but haven't received a text yet.
Are they going to raise my bill too ?
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chaoss
05-23-2024 at 09:27 AM.
05-23-2024 at 09:27 AM.
I have:
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Simple Choice

So far no texts on any of my lines
I have 8 lines along with 2 free lines (10 total)
No wearables and no tablet lines.
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an_azn
05-23-2024 at 09:52 AM.
05-23-2024 at 09:52 AM.
Quote from 3lenium :
Tmobile is a SCAM!!

How lol? They provide a service at a lower rate than the other major carriers and you pay for it
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an_azn
05-23-2024 at 09:55 AM.
05-23-2024 at 09:55 AM.
Quote from nkymain485 :
That'll make my plan go to 170 for 4 lines unlimited... Any better deals at other carriers?

Not if you're looking at the big carriers like Verizon and AT&T lol.. If you want to go with one of those lower end carriers with lower priority for signal, data and etc like Metro, Mint, Boost and etc then you may be able to get a better deal.
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Impulse_shopper
05-23-2024 at 09:59 AM.
05-23-2024 at 09:59 AM.
I pay $25/month for unlimited everything with visible. Never have issues with signal or data caps.
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Slacky
05-23-2024 at 10:18 AM.
05-23-2024 at 10:18 AM.
Quote from m3coup :
No text yet on the increase and also no data breach settlement checks. C'mon TMO, you have yet to cough up a penny for the data breach-es and now this? The UNCOOL carrier I tell ya.

Take a look at the paltry one-time amount this company was allowed to pay us for their repeated criminal mismanagement of our data. So little I forgot- was it $5 bucks and a pink tote bag? If they were a human they would be sentenced to life in prison for similar actions.

Then compare that amount to the MONTHLY increase they will impose on nearly every one of the customers they shared information on. And take a look at their latest earnings. "Inflation made us do it" hahaha.

Legislators and regulators already have revolving doors with industry, but this is so blatant. Whatever small amount they paid to bribe such ridiculous "settlements" and to be able to just merge with Sprint has paid off handsomely.

The most prolific shoplifters have nothing on these criminals but the news somehow has no available time to report on white collar crime. Which probably makes sense since it would take more than 24 hours a day without commercials to start peeling the first layer of the onion.
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Joseph06
05-23-2024 at 01:49 PM.
05-23-2024 at 01:49 PM.
I have the old voice stream with t zones plan no increase here
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Offers1
05-23-2024 at 04:59 PM.
05-23-2024 at 04:59 PM.
Quote from Elemental. :
It's actually $5 increase per voice line per month for older (non Go5G) plans, $2 for devices. Check r/Tmobile Reddit for more info.

Thumbs up not because this a deal, but because affected people need to know about the increase.
I'm paying $40 extra because I don't want to give them my debit card. I'm also receiving less discount for netflix, so I pay more to have netflix without ads. Frown
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05-23-2024 at 07:43 PM.
05-23-2024 at 07:43 PM.
Quote from slick5150 :
Remember when Tmobile super pinky swore they wouldn't raise rates as part of getting approved to buy Sprint?

Shocked. SHOCKED I tell you.

TMo never bought Sprint. It was actually the other way around, they just kept the TMo brand because of the negative rep Sprint had. My wife worked at TMo for 18 years and all the TMo people were let go and Spri nt personnel took the jobs.
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Desultadox
05-24-2024 at 04:41 AM.
05-24-2024 at 04:41 AM.
Ironically it seems Sprint refugees are unaffected
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appleguy82
05-24-2024 at 05:23 AM.
05-24-2024 at 05:23 AM.
Quote from Viajera :
See 2017 press release for One Plan ( https://www.t-mobile.com/news/pre...rrier-next ), specifically the Un-contract paragraph, which states:

Today, T-Mobile introduced the Un-contract for T-Mobile ONE – and notched another industry first with the first-ever price guarantee on an unlimited 4G LTE plan. With the Un-contract, T-Mobile signs, and customers hold all the power. Now, T-Mobile ONE customers keep their price until THEY decide to change it. T-Mobile will never change the price you pay for your T-Mobile ONE plan. When you sign up for T-Mobile ONE, only YOU have the power to change the price you pay.

Of course a press release (for 4G LTE) is not a contract, but now we know what the Un-contract means and what it means when T-Mobile "signs" it.

I am moving lines to att just to protest. My one plan at work business increases five per line for more than four lines. I am gonna make them lose business.

I can afford to pay five $ more per line , but we all need to make them hurt and churn the lines.

Let their ARPU and quarter line ads show a significant line reductions.

This price lock was a joke and we all got scammed , they fooled us customers. Not cool TmO, not cool at all.

This is why we moved from Att and VZ to T-Mobile
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SIX29P
05-24-2024 at 06:42 AM.
05-24-2024 at 06:42 AM.
Soooooo many people were in XFINITY yesterday morning saying they were switching from TMOBILE it's crazy. I ended up saving a total of $60 of my phone bill monthly AND $76 off my cable/internet/security bill by switching… WIN! I'll miss the free inflight texts though some of the international data and the random Tuesday junk. Bye bye Tmobile
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CanesFan
05-24-2024 at 08:01 AM.
05-24-2024 at 08:01 AM.
Quote from SIX29P :
Soooooo many people were in XFINITY yesterday morning saying they were switching from TMOBILE it's crazy. I ended up saving a total of $60 of my phone bill monthly AND $76 off my cable/internet/security bill by switching… WIN! I'll miss the free inflight texts though some of the international data and the random Tuesday junk. Bye bye Tmobile
That's who I was thinking of switching to but still not sure if it's a better deal, I will need to price it out. I currently have 3 lines for $80 (one line is a free line & taxes included), with this increase it will be $90/month.

I know Xfinity Mobile has a deal with 1 free line for a year so savings up front are probably good but not sure about the long run.
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chaoss
05-24-2024 at 08:31 AM.
05-24-2024 at 08:31 AM.
surprised verizon and att haven't taken advantage of this
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Depechemode101
05-24-2024 at 08:31 AM.
05-24-2024 at 08:31 AM.
Att & Verizon are worse or the same. I haven't gotten the text yet but I'm paying $130 for 5 lines unlimited pretty much everything. One of the old magenta plans.
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