T-Mobile introduces unlimited pre-paid plans

By on May 17, 2010 at 2:50 PM
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No doubt a response to Virgin Mobile’s serious push to reign supreme in the pre-paid market, T-Mobile today announced two new unlimited pre-paid plans which go live this Wednesday. Under the new plans, $15 will net users unlimited text, picture and video messages with nationwide voice calls at 10¢ per minute, while $50 offers the same in terms of messaging but allows for unlimited nationwide calls with no per-minute fees. Definitely not bad plans if you’re looking to kill off a landline and not get locked into a lengthy contract commitment, but we’d have loved it if T-Mobile were to introduce a third plan with data. We mean, they are trying to play it both ways, right?

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  • ty

    they are doing a per hour fee for web on prepaid.its like a dollar.

  • young hova

    Ahh Teen Mobile you suck!!

  • Bunifa@SprintPOS

    These plans also have full postpaid coverage, which others from Boost Mobile, AT&T, or Virgin Mobile don’t.

    It’s simple, the data options are poor because they don’t want random people on the network days at a time for little revenue. $3 for 3 days of tethering is nothing compared to what they make off of their postpaid customers. $3 for 3 hours is going to keep it to people that only need it for true occasional usage.

    • Bunifa@SprintPOS

      Let me also remark that T-Mobile has been doing research for these plans long before Virgin released their prepaid plans.

      Michael Bettiol, You’ve always got some negative remark to follow after.. can you at least be correct a few times? It would reduce your douchebag persona quite a bit.

    • Anonymous

      I have no idea what you’re talking about. “Post-paid coverage?” Are you claiming that Verizon/Boost aren’t on Sprint/Nextel networks? And that AT&T have a specific network that runs their prepaid phones and its not the same network as their postpaid phones? I don’t really understand what is being said here…

      • Bunifa@SprintPOS

        Postpaid meaning roaming. Postpaid Sprint/AT&T customers can roam and prepaid Sprint/AT&T (virgin, boost, gophone) can’t roam..

      • MichaelK

        exactly. traditionally pre-paid coverage (from re-sellers) has been a fraction of the “full” network footprint, making it much less attractive, and roaming has been severely restricted or expensive or impossible. I’ve read that pre-paid is replacing post-paid usage more and more, for voice. Data seems to be still lagging, hopefully there will be affordable 3G/4G data pre-paid plans coming soon. In any case, mobile users should benefit!

  • young hova

    ahh Teen Mobile you suckk!!

  • Ron P

    Those plans are already live on the web, at least they are available to subscribers as I was just in one of my TMO2GO accts and there they were. So there is now 5 Options available on TMO2GO as base plans

  • Don Louie

    Bunifa, Boost/Virgin’s maps are bigger than T Mobile’s. With data and minutes included on Virgin/Boost plans they still are a better deal.

  • Joe

    There’s really no way to beat Virgin at this game, they’ve really outdone themselves.

  • http://bitflung.com bitflung

    ahh Teen young hova you suckk!!

    common, seriously there, T-Mobile is a solid contender. And as for the article, t-mobile has plenty of options for those who don’t want to sign a contract – they have contract-free post-paid plans.

    they are called Even More Plus (as opposed to Even More, their branding for the exact same plans but with a 1 or 2 year contract and a mobile device subsidy).

    I left AT&T for T-Mobile recently and can say that the networks are very similar in terms of coverage and service (mind you, i never had any problems with at&t; since i don’t have an iphone it always worked great for me – i left because my new Nokia N900 has 3G support for T-Mobile and not AT&T).

    T-Mobile’s 3G service is already as fast and often faster than the FUTURE INTENDED speed of the so-called 4G (WiMax) Sprint is trying to bring to market (eagerly trying to get it out there before significant LTE expectations rise).

    When away from home I typically get faster data service via my N900 through T-Mobile than I do via any public wifi. My typical connection rates are above 2megabit, sometimes as high as 6mb. public wifi is crowded and usually connects you to a cheap verizon adsl line to share a 1-2 megabit connection with dozens or more active users. you do the math.

    i really wish people would STOP judging mobile operators by ridiculously stupid metrics (like which handsets they sell; seriously, would you buy your PC from your ISP??).

    mobile networks are, and should be evaluated as, dumb pipes. who offers the fastest data connectivity, the greatest growth rate, the least overage charges (or least possibility of overage in the first place)?

    is it t-mobile? i don’t know. but i can say for certain t-mobile is in the running, they are a strong contender. for me specifically i’m certain they are the best across the board. why? because i consume hundreds of megs of mobile data each month and i would get seriously pissed off waiting for the dog slow verizon and sprint data rates. at&t? they are ok, but capped at 3.6mbps which is half of my max t-mobile rate and and roughly 1/6 of the rate i’ll be getting at the end of 2010 when the 21mbps infrastructure rollout is completed.

  • http://www.verizonwireless.com VZW

    Straight Talk is still the best deal I think.

  • Kg

    Just to clarify on Att , postpaid Nd prepaid have different coverage postpaid has better coverage obviously if u don’t believe me walk into a Att store and look at there coverae map

  • Eddie

    $50 isn’t bad, but with many $40 unlimited prepaid plans out there it’s really nothing to get all excited about. With Walmart in the cheap prepaid game now and newer prepaid companies offering unlimited for less popping up all the time not sure if this will really attract as many new customers as they hope.

  • http://(null) justfinethanku

    eh, we had some conference calls about these plans a few weeks ago, I don’t think thier a response to virgin mobile at all, but rather Ill-timed announcement making. either way, no one paid attention to the virgin mobile prepaid thing anyway.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • http://tmobile.com LorVader

    tmo sucks! Keep raising that churn % and crappy 1900mhz voice network in Nor Cal and stupid reps like Tara Farrel. I hate her and selling tmobile everyday – Sprint all the way!

  • Aram O.

    you know simple mobile is the same for $40?

  • http://tmonews.com extmolover

    These plans are good for the customer but not good for the reps that will be selling them…being that it is prepaid, Fidel Dotson is still going to pay the reps $2 a pop.

  • http://teenmoble monique

    helloooooooooo

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