T-Mobile announces new prepaid voice and data plans

By on Oct 13, 2010 at 2:29 PM
General October 13, 2010


About one-week ago, information on T-Mobile’s prepaid phone and data plans leaked… and the information was dead on. Today, T-Mobile officially announced the new prepaid monthly plans that will be available on October 18. The plans looks like this:

Prepaid Monthly Phone Data Plans

  • $70/month Unlimited Talk and Text with 2 GB of Data
  • $50/month Unlimited Talk and Text with 100 MB of Data
  • $30/month 1,500 Talk and Text (mix and match voice and text messages) with 30 MB of Data
  • Unlimited Text and $0.10/minute
  • $1.49/day Web DayPass

Prepaid Mobile Broadband

  • $10 week pass (100 MB)
  • $30 month pass (300 MB)
  • $50 month pass (1 GB)

The prepaid mobile broadband plans will be available on a new “Jet USB Laptop Stick” that is “pre-packaged with a prepaid SIM card, user guide, and plug & play connection manager software” — the device will be available online on October 18th and in stores on the 20th. “T-Mobile’s prepaid mobile broadband plans have no annual contract, no credit check, no overages and can be used with any of the company’s mobile broadband products,” explains the press release. The prepaid voice plans look pretty attractive… but $50 for 1 GB of data seems pretty steep.

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  • Hollaman

    When did $50 for 1gb become ok? This is rape.

    • GN

      that why they throw the other option out there 70$ for 2gb…how can you refuse 20 times the data for 20$ more?

    • GN

      my bad…thought you were referring to the data plans..

    • deraildoax

      Screw this crap. I’d get the $40 unlimited data on Virgin Mobiles Prepaid Data. Plus it would be on Sprints larger network footprint. Unless Tmo was selling access to their HSPA+ network which would just eat up the 1gb faster anyways. So no thanks. Virgin here I come!

    • The Late Ted Kennedy

      Who uses this outdated network???

    • Matt

      yeah this pretty much confirms that I’m not leaving my myfave data plan with tmobile.

      seriously, what the hell? this is like triple the current price of data on a phone, if not more.

  • mangenius

    Solo Mobile – unlimited talk and text and long distance. $45/month!

    • lurch

      Wow! Long distance is included with that?!?! I haven’t seen a deal like that since 2003!

      • Epic Beard Man

        Blame Canada.

  • Gopal Srinivasan

    For $79.99, that’s $9.99 more than the $70 plan featured above, I get unlimited talk, text and web. Why would I want the $70 plan?

  • Paul

    $30 for 300MB are you kidding me! I’m paying £25 for 7GB and think that is steep as I used to pay 9,99€ for (real) unlimited back in Finland.

    • http://cabinics.com David

      Shoot I pay $40 a month with TWC for an unlimited 4G air USB modem. I love Tmo, but this is utterly ridiculous. Very disappointed in them.

  • DRTigerlilly

    Simple Mobile, a tmobile mnvo does unlimited voice, text & data for $60. But their business model is bring your own phone,.

  • Brian

    Is it just me or has BGR Slowed Down?Where is The Good Stuff. Ive Never commented before on this site but ive just gotten totally aggravated at the News Lately. Where’s the news? Is this it? Is this all there is?

    • Steve Jabroni

      No, you’re right. BGR has been sucking lately and the troll commenters running rampant.

  • LaTonya@TeenMobile

    Teen Mobile has finally accepted its place in the market as a third rate ghetto prepaid carrier.

    • watbetch

      Is Teen Mobile another Sprint prepaid carrier? Do they really need another?

  • GN

    god…im afraid to go back and recap what att wants…I know im paying $$ for there unlimited data and 700 min shared with my daughters 3gs. Thats just the phone/data package I know im in the range of 160$ before taxes/fees.

    • GN

      awww….truth hurt huh?:p

  • RAS

    For somebody like me, who only needs to check email on a 1-week vacation, the $10/100MB weekly pass sounds pretty good.

  • joshua

    how about giving a price for the unlimited text .10 cent talk plan BGR?

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: St Cloud Americas

    • Andrew Munchbach

      That is the price. You prepay for however many minutes you want at $0.10 per minute and get unlimited texting.

      • Jeremiah

        I think joshua is referring to the fact that the unlimited texting plan still costs $15/month, which is not stated in the article. It would be silly to pay only for the 10 cents per minute without having to pay for the texts, right?

  • jon

    Why don’t carriers come out with plans for people like me who want unlimited data and only a few hundred minutes?

    I guess these plans are good for people who don’t shut up.

    • GN

      this is the day and age of data and networking…this is what cripples carriers bandwith and demand the most, and the hardest to maintain by far….

      • RAS

        It’s also their biggest “cash cow” now. They have no interest in giving users a better deal on data. Minutes, sure. All you want. But they’re keeping tight control over data rates and allowances.

    • Diamondpro

      Sounds like u need Sprint. 69.99 unlimited data and 450 minutes. Plus any mobile anytime (call any cell phone for free) nights start at 7pm.

  • Steve Jabroni

    $50 for a GB wouldn’t be so bad if it had no expiration. Like I wouldn’t need to buy another one for 3 months or something. Monthly… no thanks. Pass.

  • John T Badass

    Walmarts pre paid sounds a lot better than this. 2 phones for $70.

    • lurch

      I won’t buy meat at Wal-Mart. Why would I get my cell phone through them?

  • Jim

    There are numerous MVNOs (Boost, Virgin, Page Plus, Simple, Wal-mart, Kroger, etc..) offering better unlimited/prepaid plans. Most of them are eating away at the Big Four’s postpaid customer base. The large carriers are so busy with the blizzard of new smartphones and iPad knockoffs to be aware that they are losing contract subs to the prepaids.

    • RAS

      The problem with these MVNOs is that their networks are nowhere near as big as the majors, and few of the MVNOs have roaming agreements. So if you’re outside a major metro area you’re likely to get poor coverage.

      • Jim

        RAS, the MVNOs operate on the majors systems. Historically the MVNOs have not matched in all aspects but the gap has almost closed.

      • trooth

        MVNOs will run off a carriers natural network. IE boost is on Sprint’s. However you only get Sprint’s network, no Verizon Wireless filling in the gaps. You will know the difference in having a MVNO phone versus a regular carrier phone because it will be the only one not working in many places where everyone else’s phone works.

        The carriers still make the money because they aren’t paying anyone else for you to be able to use a reseller’s line.

  • CantHandle

    I wonder if the pricing is as high as it is because many carriers just CANNOT support the bandwidth people would use if they charged a cheaper right.

    They’re essentially purposely pricing some consumers out of the market.

    Look at AT&T and problems with too many IPhone users sucking bandwidth all day long.

    It’s just recently that more people are using smart phones than “regular” cell phones. As that number continues to grow this problem is only going to multiply.

    Would you rather have bad cheap service or pay a premium for zippy content on your phone on-demand?

    I’d rather not have to answer that question but right now if I want a major carrier I think I’m going to have to.

    I plan on getting an Android soon… and will most likely buy one with Verizon (I get a good corp. discount). I want to get one BEFORE LTE comes out… as I am hoping I can be grandfathered in to the unlimited plan.

    Would be very surprised if LTE and tiered data don’t essentially come hand in hand… I hope grandfathering for a bit works until competition brings tier’d pricing down…

    • Norm

      Definitely go with DROID on Verizon. It is really the only way to go. My DROID lasts 21 days on a single charge under heavy usage. Also DROIDs only use a tiny fraction of the bandwidth that iphones do. DROID DOES!!!!

      • Matt

        even at 2.1 days (typo or not), you’d be hilariously bs’ing.

  • Tracy

    Will someone explain to me why any one, even an idiot would purchase this plain when you get get unlimited texting, unlimited nationwide calling, and unlimited internet with boostmobile for a flat rate of $50. This makes no sense.

    • trooth

      Because they may want to get a signal and be able to use their phone.

  • Tracy

    P.S. Boostmobile is a prepay so you do not have to sign a contract or pass a credit check, or worry about overage charges and it works anywhere in the United States unless you are in a cave.

    • trooth

      Or unless you are in a building or 2 miles or more away from a major interstate or highway.

  • Tracy

    If you live in an area that doesn’t offer boostmobile then get Metro PCS or Cricket. They are the about $30 or $40 a month but not as good of service as boostmobile. Why pay this company to rip you off? Makes no sense at all.

    • trooth

      You can buy your clothes at WalMart too. Why pay for better quality when you can go cheap?

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