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populardealz4realz4realz | Staff posted Oct 27, 2025 03:36 PM
populardealz4realz4realz | Staff posted Oct 27, 2025 03:36 PM

New & Existing Customers: Upgraded Unlimited Talk, Text + 50GB of High-Speed data $25/month

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Tello Mobile [tello.com] has upgraded their Unlimited Plan for both New & Existing Customers for $25/ month.

Existing Customers: If you're already on the Unlimited plan, you'll automatically get 50 GB (previously 35 GB) of high-speed data + 10 GB of Hotspot (previously 5 GB) at no extra cost.

New Customers: Create your Tello account, choose the Unlimited plan, and get:
  • Unlimited talk & text
  • Nationwide 5G/4G LTE coverage
  • 50 GB of high-speed data at full 4G LTE/5G speed. Data speed is reduced after 50 GB.
  • 10 GB of Hotspot
  • No contract required
  • Receive a new phone number from Tello or bring your own number after the service has been activated in your online account.
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Tello Mobile [tello.com] has upgraded their Unlimited Plan for both New & Existing Customers for $25/ month.

Existing Customers: If you're already on the Unlimited plan, you'll automatically get 50 GB (previously 35 GB) of high-speed data + 10 GB of Hotspot (previously 5 GB) at no extra cost.

New Customers: Create your Tello account, choose the Unlimited plan, and get:
  • Unlimited talk & text
  • Nationwide 5G/4G LTE coverage
  • 50 GB of high-speed data at full 4G LTE/5G speed. Data speed is reduced after 50 GB.
  • 10 GB of Hotspot
  • No contract required
  • Receive a new phone number from Tello or bring your own number after the service has been activated in your online account.

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Oct 27, 2025 03:46 PM
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ChronoTriggeredOct 27, 2025 03:46 PM
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Tello runs on the T-Mobile network

The network is a huge part of making the decision to switch carriers or not. Is it possible to include this info in the original post?
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Oct 27, 2025 03:51 PM
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SavingIsArtOct 27, 2025 03:51 PM
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It's still gonna be 5 bucks too hard for Tello to gain new customers. 20 bucks would be a reasonably competitive price, IMHO.
Oct 27, 2025 04:33 PM
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MtF4392Oct 27, 2025 04:33 PM
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This deal will combine with their rewards program. If you use a referral when creating your account, you get $10 in Tello Dollars to use in the future. New accounts get the rewards right away, while the referring account now has to wait 91 days.

Our Tello lines are low usage and have been great for that, especially rolling over the data. I agree that they might not be the best option for unlimited and that it is essential that T-Mobile has a good signal in your area.
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Oct 27, 2025 08:22 PM
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PuppyParent123Oct 27, 2025 08:22 PM
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I've been a Tello customer since 2017, at that time they were using Sprint towers before the T-Mobile merger. Since I'm on wifi most of the time, I only pay $7.60 including taxes and fees for my monthly service, no need for a lot of data and I'm a texter not a talker and rarely make phone calls anymore. My plan is 1 gb of data, unlimited texts which I use all day long and 100 minutes and by manually renewing before auto renew happens I get to rollover my unused portions and I actually have over 2000 minutes and over 30gb of data banked so I'm never going to run out. Can't beat the price and I never have problems with my service here in Southern California. For seniors and low usage customers Tello month to month plans offer an excellent value as long as T-Mobile signal is good in their area. Happy to answer any questions about the service. I almost forgot, you can also call 60 countries for free from the USA using your plan minutes.
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Oct 27, 2025 09:50 PM
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GenerXmanOct 27, 2025 09:50 PM
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I've been using Tello for a long time, ever since RingPlus went toes up. Used to be on Sprint, then T-Mobile. I've been through a few phones. My monthly bill is about $7/mo. As long as I have home internet, I have no need for more data.
Oct 27, 2025 10:43 PM
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B3RLINOct 27, 2025 10:43 PM
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Quote from PuppyParent123 :
I've been a Tello customer since 2017, at that time they were using Sprint towers before the T-Mobile merger. Since I'm on wifi most of the time, I only pay $7.60 including taxes and fees for my monthly service, no need for a lot of data and I'm a texter not a talker and rarely make phone calls anymore. My plan is 1 gb of data, unlimited texts which I use all day long and 100 minutes and by manually renewing before auto renew happens I get to rollover my unused portions and I actually have over 2000 minutes and over 30gb of data banked so I'm never going to run out. Can't beat the price and I never have problems with my service here in Southern California. For seniors and low usage customers Tello month to month plans offer an excellent value as long as T-Mobile signal is good in their area. Happy to answer any questions about the service. I almost forgot, you can also call 60 countries for free from the USA using your plan minutes.
I didn't know the trick about banking minutes/data. Wish I'd been doing that for the past few years
Oct 27, 2025 10:53 PM
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George_P_BurdellOct 27, 2025 10:53 PM
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Quote from SavingIsArt :
It's still gonna be 5 bucks too hard for Tello to gain new customers. 20 bucks would be a reasonably competitive price, IMHO.
IMHO they got the best roaming rates on pay as you go. You can be on unlimited plan and travel internationally and use roaming rates, if youre not on wifi.
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Oct 27, 2025 10:58 PM
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desynergyOct 27, 2025 10:58 PM
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Has anyone done a speed test during T-Mobile's congested hours? (5pm to 9pm around here). What are the speeds on T-Mobile's overloaded towers?
Oct 27, 2025 11:53 PM
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saturnman9Oct 27, 2025 11:53 PM
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Quote from B3RLIN :
I didn't know the trick about banking minutes/data. Wish I'd been doing that for the past few years
You just have to make sure to manually renew one day before the auto-renew happens. You will lose a day of service but you get to rollover your minutes and data.
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Oct 28, 2025 12:09 AM
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PuppyParent123Oct 28, 2025 12:09 AM
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Quote from GenerXman :
I've been using Tello for a long time, ever since RingPlus went toes up. Used to be on Sprint, then T-Mobile. I've been through a few phones. My monthly bill is about $7/mo. As long as I have home internet, I have no need for more data.
I also was a refugee from the Ring Plus debacle so we must have joined about the same time.
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PuppyParent123Oct 28, 2025 12:37 AM
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Quote from B3RLIN :
I didn't know the trick about banking minutes/data. Wish I'd been doing that for the past few years
It's a great feature and the original intent was to allow people that ran out of minutes or data to renew early rather than have to wait for the 30 day renewal period. Once they found out that many were using it to keep their unused service they embraced it and allowed it to continue. Not sure how long it will last cause it must cost them lost profit but I think giving up a days service in exchange for rollover is a fair trade. If you pay in the app just go into your dashboard and tap change plan and then it gives you the option to actually change your plan if you want on the slide bar then hit I want this plan then you get to the payment screen and it warns you it's cancelling you current plan and replacing it with the new plan you selected (which can be the same plan )and once you pay go back to your dashboard and check your new balance. On the left side is your selected plan balance and on the right is what you actually have including your rollover so the numbers will be higher.
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Oct 28, 2025 12:52 AM
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RelaxedThread520Oct 28, 2025 12:52 AM
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Quote from B3RLIN :
I didn't know the trick about banking minutes/data. Wish I'd been doing that for the past few years
me too
Oct 28, 2025 01:15 AM
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njb83Oct 28, 2025 01:15 AM
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Quote from RelaxedThread520 :
me too
Keeping a track of the last day of the cycle is very tricky and headaches. Currently I do the same but wanted to share my experience.
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MtF4392Oct 28, 2025 03:34 AM
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Quote from njb83 :
Keeping a track of the last day of the cycle is very tricky and headaches. Currently I do the same but wanted to share my experience.
It's definitely not for everyone, but it takes me about a minute total. I have a google calendar reminder email me the day before my auto renewal. I see the email, renew my $5 plan, check the autorenew date, then push my reminder to the day before the next renewal.

And in a previous thread, someone thought you had to actually change plans each time, which is not true. I renew the same plan each time.

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Oct 30, 2025 01:57 PM
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kenbuzzOct 30, 2025 01:57 PM
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Quote from PuppyParent123 :
I've been a Tello customer since 2017, at that time they were using Sprint towers before the T-Mobile merger. Since I'm on wifi most of the time, I only pay $7.60 including taxes and fees for my monthly service, no need for a lot of data and I'm a texter not a talker and rarely make phone calls anymore. My plan is 1 gb of data, unlimited texts which I use all day long and 100 minutes and by manually renewing before auto renew happens I get to rollover my unused portions and I actually have over 2000 minutes and over 30gb of data banked so I'm never going to run out. Can't beat the price and I never have problems with my service here in Southern California. For seniors and low usage customers Tello month to month plans offer an excellent value as long as T-Mobile signal is good in their area. Happy to answer any questions about the service. I almost forgot, you can also call 60 countries for free from the USA using your plan minutes.
This is great info.

For those wanting to do this, the key is that you have to renew your plan BEFORE it auto-renews. If you let it auto-renew, you'll begin the next month with the minutes/GB that the plan provides, essentially zeroing-out anything you've banked. If you manually renew before that date, alll unused minutes/GB will carry over. I STRONGLY recommend you set a calendar reminder that goes off 29 days after each renewal date to prompt you to go in and manually renew. Also, when you renew, tick the box to have them send you a reminder 48 hours before. That gives you TWO chances to not mess up.

Yeah, it's a bit of a game, but it's worth playing. Like the OP, I too am paying $7-something a month (with all taxes included) and have 26.7 GB and 2089 minutes in the bank.

PS - If you trust yourself to do this, you might want to consider signing up for their 15GB plan for the first month only. I did this when I started my plan, and one time last summer when I lost power for a week and used my phone as a hotspot, draining my balance to zero. 15GB costs $22-23 for that month only, so your cost per GB is optimized. Then shift to the 1GB renewal each month.

And though it goes without saying, let me say this.... always add 100 minutes (for a buck) to the plan you're selecting. If you don't include any minutes in your "new" plan any minutes you have banked will be deleted.

NOTE: The deal at the top of this thread is capped at 10MB of hotspot. I don't believe this will work with the scheme we're describing. You want to start with the plan that offers the most hotspot data, which at the time of writing was the 15GB plan. Then shift to 1GB monthly after that to maintain your account.
Last edited by kenbuzz October 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM.
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