T-Mobile's pre-paid data plans leaked

By on Oct 6, 2010 at 7:10 AM
General October 6, 2010

It looks like T-Mobile will be joining AT&T and Verizon Wireless in offering pre-paid wireless data to its customers. Engadget has been sent in an image detailing exactly what Magenta’s data buckets will look like. Pre-paid data will be sold in 7-day and 30-day increments: a one-week, 100 MB pass will retail for $10; a one-month 300 MB pass will retail for $30; and a 1 GB monthly pass will cost $50. The pricing is in-line with both AT&T and Verizon Wireless, but, curiously, doesn’t give T-Mobile the price-point edge it usually touts over its competitors.

UPDATE: TMoNews is now reporting that T-Mobile will be revamping their pre-paid calling plans as well. The new plans will look like this:

  • $70 Unlimited Talk & Text includes 2 GB of data
  • $50 Unlimited Talk & Text includes 100 MB of data
  • $30 1500 Talk & Text includes 30 MB of data (use any combination of minutes or messages up to 1500)

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  • http://cabinics.com David

    I’m disappointed in Tmo, they are usually the ones to get the pricing right. This is ridiculous IMHO. 1GB is nothing, and $50 is a lot of money.

    • Randall

      That’s because T-mobile is struggling with bandwidth and spectrum for data. They begun cutting customers off at 5gb on the postpaid accounts because it is a detriment to there network performance.

  • Donny

    It’s gonna be cheaper to get in your car and drive to a coffee shop or library….or even park on a street corner for a wifi signal. These types of plans no matter what carrier are a complete waste.

  • andyg8180

    Carriers need to charge for bandwidth not data… keep data unlimited… im thankful i got in early enough for unlimited because i crush ATT’s 2gig min every month

  • mingkee

    The price for 10 days is OK, but the rest lost to Virgin.
    Once Virgin made the data problem worked out, I will be a happy camper ($40 “unlimited” for 30 days).

  • Ryan

    Do we have a little cross-competition price fixing going on here…. I think so!

  • Androidian

    i guess mobile companies are realizing data trumps voice so data plans are getting more expensive versus voice plans.

  • Sexual Chocolate

    Wow Walmarts prepaid looks really good now huh? Atleast with Walmart you can get a gig for $40 and carry it over forever.

  • Hello?

    read the pdf. Its saying for mobile broadband data. the prepaid mobile broadband price is actually a pretty great deal considering. TMos unlimited mobile broadband is only 40 a month on post paid. So just don’t do a prepaid and your golden!

    • mingkee

      Be aware that there’s a throttling point at 5GB, and I confirmed through experiment.

  • http://www.twitter.com/mattstkc MattSTKC

    We shouldn’t be buying plans by minutes. We should be buying unlimited minute plans with MB and GB packages.

  • http://c0rinne.net Corinne

    I’m sticking with my 19.99 unlimited data.

    • http://cabinics.com David

      Amen, I have unlimited data for $20 a month, gone well over 5GB before and have yet to be throttled. I’ve yet to go over 10 so I can’t say what would happen, but I wouldn’t sue them if they throttled me after 10.

    • casper663

      i am with you on this, i am an will always be a tmo customer. I have the old $19.99 unlimited data plan with FREE dare i say it again FREE TETHERING. i have the blackberry 9700

  • jdubb

    Terrible for Tmo. They’re going to continue to lose customers too because of shenanigans like this. All the more reason for a buyout/merger.

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