More T-Mobile Project Dark rumors: Financed phones?

Sprint’s MAX deposit is $150? And T-Mo is $500? If that’s true, then Sprint attempted to gyp me a few months ago before I signed up with T-Mo. No deposit with T-Mo but Sprint wanted $500.

@Who?,

well if most people are teens then they need unlimited texting. If most people are moms then maybe 200 messages is a good idea.

Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

Most people are not teens. Most people are out of college and work 5 or more days a week; they aren’t texting more than 5 or 6 times a day on average.

I appreciate that we’re anonymous and on the internet but try a more substantive criticism next time.

I have 5 lines 1000 min and ALL 5 have the 5.99 Tzones Unlimited data plan… N82, E63, Wing, Highlight, Memoir, all for LESS than $155 and THEN a military discount to bring it to the $140s!!!! I don’t see getting a better deal than what I have but I can’t wait for new phones from T-mo. I don’t mind paying over half a grand for an unlocked phone…my N82 cost me $524….BUT if T-Mo is willing to stretch it out over 20Mo, sign me up….

*looking for 21Mbps speeds on the go* *gets 20-30 Mbps at home

Erica, I hear you, but families don’t need unlimited talk since most of their calling is in-network. Kids need unlimited text, and smartphones need unlimited data.

I have a grandfathered VZW blackberry/family plan, so I’m paying about $155 for a smartphone, one phone with unlimited text, and one regular phone. If they charge $15/each for additional family phones, my $60/mo plan becomes $90/mo, and then I need to finance 3 phones (say $15,$15 and $25 = $55), so we’re back at $145. I put the value of the VZW network over T-Mob at least at $10, so it’s anything but a no-brainer.

Man to do installments for any phone, even at full price I could get any flipping phone I want. My ? Is can I get more than one or do I have to pay the first one off first.

If this is supposed to be a “game changer”, I don’t see it with what is currently being reported. Granted $60 for everything is a very good deal as is the financing for the phones but I still don’t see this as a “game changer” as has been talked about. I guess we will all see soon.

@Who?,

I wasn’t aware I was criticizing you. Thought I was just making a statement.

Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

Well that’s not exciting at all for someone like me, I pay $70 for unlimited talk, data and 400 texts(but I text maybe 30x a month).

So $10 less a month is appreciated, but nothing for which I’ll be cracking open the Champagne.

But I am on the T-Mo loyalty plan. My understanding is that was in fact special pricing for long term (2 years or longer) customers.

So if the majority of “non-loyalty-plan” people can save $40 to $50 a month on unlimited everything, that would be news.

bad thing is that because they are not subsidizing the phones and you are paying full price it means that even though you are paying $60 a month for your plan you are paying more because you are also paying for your phone with your bill add 30 dollars on.. so its 90 a month for that plan same as sprints minus good coverage. (granted you do not have to pay for your phone up front but still t-mobiles coverage is terrable)

unlimited voice, unlimited voice and text, and unlimited voice/text/data all priced at $40, $50 and $60, I call them and they told me that YES I could get unlimited voice/text/data on the 25th. for $60 on FlexPay.
This is great for someone with an iphone.

In college, some guy from M&M Mars came to talk to our marketing class. He asked this question: Have you ever been eating a snickers bar and it didn’t quite taste like a snickers bar? He went on to explain that the US government allows so many rat hairs and roach wings per pound of chocolate. To get your chocolate perfectly free of foreign particles would make a snickers cost over $10 bucks.

Same for wireless – to get perfect coverage everywhere would cost you 5 times what you currently pay for service.

Here is the reality – wireless carriers are at par on coverage in most US cities according to Telephia data. You don’t know about Telephia because the carriers use Telephia – an independent testing firm – to test and monitor their networks. The reality is that carriers are separated by 1 to 3 dropped calls during a duration (called a drive test) to determine who is number one, 2, 3 ,4 etc in a major metro area (top 50 U.S. cities). Telephia has drive testers who have each carrier’s phones mounted to the dash of test vehicles. They initiate a call on all handsets and start driving. What is that drive time average? In Dallas, Tx for example, T-Mobile came in number 1 with 1 dropped call per 361 minutes of talk time; AT&T came in second with 2 dropped calls per 361 minutes of talk time, Verizon and Sprint tied with 3. Do you really care about 1 or 2 or 3 calls dropped when you are talking for 6 freakin’ hours straight? Hell no! There are some achilles networks for carriers – Sprint in Las Vegas and New York, T-Mobile in San Fran and Atlanta, AT&T in Phoenix and New York, Verizon in L.A. and Houston. But for the most part, coverage differences between carriers is closing.
Also – wireless years are like dog years. Carriers – all carriers – put up new cell towers every day, so what was a coverage gap one day is gone the next.

The best choice is to choose a carrier who works best for you – all of them except for Verizon , have on-line coverage checks you can use to make sure you have the coverage you need. Carriers hate returned handsets – they cannot sell those as new. They go back to the mfg and are re-furbed for warranty exchanges.

$59.99/month for Unlimited Everything, plus my 15% monthly discount, and the HD2 when it launches… No one can hold a candle to that. Not only will that be the sickest phone in US wireless but I’ll be paying about $50/month to use it.

I disagree. I’m 25 and out of college. I communicate via text throughout the day, and so do most of my friends who are my age and older. I have over 300 people as contacts and 30+ on BBM, so thank God for unlimited plans!

GlockBuster… you have that right. I have been looking closely at the HD2, in fact I am running the HTC shell on my T-Mobile Touch Pro2 (the shell is called HTC Sense, formerly Leo, as I understand things).

That HD2 will replace our G1, that is only 10 months old, but man, an HD2 and to finance the phone over 20 months, WOOT WOOT WOOT. Especially since I just got done paying T-Mobile $329 for my Touch Pro2 (on a one year contract). My bill was $500.

So to defray paying for a great handset at $15 a month, I’m in.

Besides, it’s unAmerican to not like and take advantage of payment plans.

If T-Mo does get the HD2 I will be torn on what to do with my girlfriend (who is using the G1). Give her the TP2 (that I love) and use the HD2? Or the other way around.

Maybe I’ll just keep both and switch the SIM when I feel like it. EUREKA… that’s what I am going to do. I can switch between my Curve, Pearl 8120, TP2 and HD2.

You know how they say men should have more than one watch, as a fashion thing? Well I do. So I declare that all men shall now have at least three cell phones, otherwise he ain’t a real man.

I can attest right now to all of ya I’ve had EVERYONE & after over 5 years with TMO I am still loving them also now the loyalty plans ROCK!!!
I’m running two iPHONES with unlimited Voice Text and Data and it runs me 111.95 before taxes
89.95 for two lines unlimted voice
9.99 family text which covers all the line I may add in the future
and $5.99 x 2 for the Tzones Plan on each line prior to adding tzones I had the 9.99 unlimited data on each phone and I have to say I never noticed much difference back when I had my blackberry 3G except for the extreme battery drainage

I’m not too sure what century you are living in or what kind of job you have, but texting has become a major part of lives for people of all ages. Teens, college grads, and even parents are texting more than ever before. My dad is in sales and constantly has people texting him from meetings, airports etc. My mother is a real estate agent and she has clients contacting her via text as well. I have just graduated college, and even during my job search I have had employers text me. More and more parents are keeping in touch with their kids and communicating more through texting. I don’t know what person in the year 2009 doesn’t text. Unless you have a lack of keeping up with society or technological times, unlimited texting is one the smartest economical choices that families as well as singles could add to their phone plans.

This is great news for the consumer, as the prepaid monthly unlimited plan price wars heat up.