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T-Mobile Business Unlimited Select - BYOD - 10 lines for $100
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Limited-time; subject to change. Qualifying credit, business account, and 10 lines of eligible service (Business Unlimited Select) required. Restore lines canceled in past 90 days before adding qualifying line. Must be active and in good standing to receive bill credits; allow 3-4 bill cycles from fulfillment of offer requirements. May not be combined with some offers or discounts. Business Unlimited Select: $35 device connection charge due at sale. Credit approval & deposit may be required. Regulatory Programs & Telco Recovery Fees totaling up to $3.99 per line, and federal and local surcharges apply. See Broadband Facts at T-Mobile.com. Capable device required for some features. Not combinable with certain offers. Switching plans may cause you to lose current plan/feature benefits; ask a rep for details. Plan not available for hotspots and some other data-first devices. Unlimited talk & text features for direct communications between 2 people; others (e.g., conference & chat lines, etc.) may cost extra. Some messages, including those over 1MB, use data and may be unavailable internationally. Unlimited U.S. roaming. High-speed data is US only. In Canada/Mexico, data is unlimited at up to 128kbps speeds. Not available for hotspots and some other data-first devices. Video streams at up to 2.5Mbps (SD). 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. Tethering: 5GB high-speed data then unlimited on our network at max 3G speeds. For customers using >50GB/mo., primary data usage must be on smartphone or tablet. Smartphone/tablet usage is prioritized over Mobile Hotspot (tethering) usage, which may result in higher speeds for data used on smartphones and tablets. Int'l Roaming: Calls, including over Wi-Fi, are $.20/min. (no charge for Wi-Fi calls to US, Mexico and Canada); customers on consumer plans (e.g., some sole proprietors) pay an additional $.05/min. Up to 5GB high-speed data in select Central European countries; otherwise standard speeds approx. 256 Kbps. Not for extended international use; you must reside in the U.S. and primary usage must occur on our network. Device must register on our network before international use. Service may be terminated or restricted for excessive roaming. Coverage not available in some areas; we are not responsible for our partners' networks. Scam Shield: Capable device req'd. Turning on Scam Block might block calls you want; disable any time. 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 significant roaming. On-device usage is prioritized over tethering usage, which may result in higher speeds for data used on device. See T-Mobile.com/OpenInternet for details. See Terms and Conditions (including arbitration provision) at T-Mobile.com for additional information. T-Mobile, the T logo, Magenta and the magenta color are registered trademarks of Deutsche Telekom AG. ©2025 T‑Mobile USA, Inc.
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Only keeping it around for T-mobile Tuesdays but will probably do the 1 year Tracfone plan or the ATT prepaid multiline 5gb plan, 5 lines for $90.
Too many gotchas.
Why does it cost extra for talking to 2 people?
When John Legere ran T Mobile it was extraordinary. I had just switched from garbage Sprint because ATT Verizon were 3x the cost. T Mobile signal was only the big inner city metro. As soon as they started their build out, I switched to T Mo on a deal. But as with everyone, Legere felt it was time to leave after bringing this company to true nationwide service, dirt cheap plans, little tuesday perks. The new guy has been hell bent on destroying a good company. Nickel and dime you to death. Lie about everything.
Too many gotchas.
Why does it cost extra for talking to 2 people?
I could be wrong, but if I had to make a guess I think this is specifically about people calling certain, let's call them "special", US phone numbers that offer 'chat' or 'conference' services. I'm actually kind of surprised this is still a thing, and it might be some outdated reference, but I know for a fact that, back in the day, there were regular US phone numbers that offered these free conference calling services that ended up making money off of high per minute surcharges that they would get from the outgoing caller's phone provider. Basically, it had to do with how phone companies bill each other. If you place a call from Telco A to a phone number owned by Telco B, Telco A had to pay a carriage fee to Telco B for that call. And vice versa. This was more noticeable back before "free unlimited nationwide calling" was everywhere, but still exists behind the scenes. It's usually very small amounts and often is a wash between two high volume carriers with fairly balanced caller vs callee distributions. BUT, the rates the phone company could charge varied a lot and were dependent on certain regulated factors. Small phone companies in very remote areas could charge a lot more than say Bell Atlantic in New Jersey (I'm probably dating myself here a bit).
Anyway, companies realized that this per-minute destination fee could add up to a LOT over time and they could make a boat load of money by just getting people to call into their network. But that would require a lot of inbound calls. Of course these were generally in small towns in places like Utah (801 area code was a common one of these things), and not many people would normally call there. So, what could they do? They setup 'free' conference bridges. You could call some number and talk to other people using one of these services. And they made enough money to not only pay for the conference calling infrastructure and overhead, but turn a tidy profit as well. It was 'free' for the caller, outside of long distance fees back when that was a thing, so people would use them a lot. And while phone companies would charge a flat fee per minute, or not if you had unlimited calling, they would pay a LOT more to place calls to these numbers. When it was just Bob calling Aunt Marie to wish her a happy birthday, it wasn't that big of a deal. But when you had thousands and thousands of people calling into these services for hours at a time, it added up quick.
So a lot of these big phone companies realized that this was costing them way too much money, was basically being exploited by a loophole, and not something they wanted to keep covering the costs of, so they created these exception clauses. So if you happen to call one of these numbers that would cost them say $0.10/minute, they would charge that to you instead of eating it themselves. Hence the weird exception for calls not "direct communication between 2 people" getting put into service contracts. Again, I don't even know if this is still a thing anymore with the advent of free calls across the board and I'd be willing to bet its more of a legacy T&C that they just keep in place in case it ever becomes an issue again.
Fun fact: like 20 years ago, a buddy of mine figured out an arbitrage situation where he could buy minutes in bulk from AT&T and setup one of these BS tiny phone companies in bumf**k nowhere. He would pay like $0.03/min and make $0.05/min, netting a profit of $0.02/min (or something like that, I forget the specifics, but you get the point). He automated the whole thing so it just burned through minutes and he started making like $10k+ a month for a while. A computer would place multiple calls to his numbers, another computer would answer and just sit there using up minutes. Until AT&T caught on and stopped paying him. I think he ended up suing but I'm not sure what happened.
Anyway, now you know one more useless fact. Enjoy.
The only way to get this promo is to set up new lines and port in. Canceling lines within 90 days will void it. This is why you can't port out and back in.
Moral: Bank your number in Google Voice and stop letting carriers touch it.
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