To qualify, the following conditions must be met:
Account must have been opened at least 5 years ago
Account cannot have more than 1 free line already
Account cannot have "Hometown Discount", Insider discount, or Work Perks discount
Customers cannot have cancelled a voice line in the last 90 days
If this free line promotion follows previous free line promotions, the 1 free line limit is unlikely to apply since plenty of people got the previous promotions with 2+ free lines already. No line cancellation within the last 90 days is a hard rule, you will have to uncancel first. 5 year old account and no insider are new criteria so no idea how they will play out.
In previous free line promotions, if the system marks your account eligible with the right promotion SOC, then you are good to go even if you add the line yourself through self-service.
forum thread Posted by angel5000 • 4d ago
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forum thread Posted by angel5000 • 4d ago
May 6, 2025 9:08 PM
T-Mobile new free line BYOD for May 2025 YMMV
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Curious what the qualifications are. I did not qualify for the last free line.
As the article says, T-mobile will start texting eligible customers on May 8th, so you should probably wait until then to reach out to see if you are eligible.
Data point: this family's account is part of the very old simple plan with 5 paid lines, no free lines, no other discount, not even discounted handsets ever, since the first day of account opening. This family member is very old-school and strongly believes that getting anything discounted or free means you have to pay back in other ways.
if any account deserves a free line, it's this one!
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"The new free line will be available to select customers beginning May 8th. Eligible customers will have a "segment", which is basically an automated account memo, on their account if eligible.
To qualify, the following conditions must be met:
- Account must have been opened at least 5 years ago
- Account cannot have more than 1 free line already
- Account cannot have "Hometown Discount", Insider discount, or Work Perks discount
- Customers cannot have cancelled a voice line in the last 90 days"
Will be very hard to get this free line since most will not qualify due to the conditions.Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
"The new free line will be available to select customers beginning May 8th. Eligible customers will have a "segment", which is basically an automated account memo, on their account if eligible.
To qualify, the following conditions must be met:
- Account must have been opened at least 5 years ago
- Account cannot have more than 1 free line already
- Account cannot have "Hometown Discount", Insider discount, or Work Perks discount
- Customers cannot have cancelled a voice line in the last 90 days"
Will be very hard to get this free line since most will not qualify due to the conditions.So basically most of us