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T-Mobile Just Ripped 8 Million Customers Off Their Grandfathered Plans – and Raised Their Bills (www.gadgetreview.com)
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“T‑Mobile will never change the price you pay for your T‑Mobile ONE plan.” That was the promise. The Un-contract. The whole reason millions of customers picked the magenta team over Verizon and AT&T in the first place. Now T-Mobile is retiring legacy 3G and 4G-era plans — Magenta, ONE, Simple Choice — and automatically moving customers onto “modern” 5G plans at higher monthly costs. Billing changes hit mid-July for the current wave. The company that swore it would never surprise you with a rate hike just sent the notification.

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[-] TrippyHippyDan@lemmy.world 82 points 21 hours ago

Its almost like everyone saw this coming once Sprint was allowed to merge with them, and then US Cellular

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Mergers of larger corporations shouldn't be permitted. In fact, any attempt at initiating a merger should instead initiate a breakup.

[-] VAK@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Ooh, imagine if Spirit was broken up..

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 22 points 20 hours ago

they all pull this shit.. three different providers besides tm here, just in the last 2-3 years.

and they get away with it, so it continues..

[-] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Don't forget that part of the merger was Dish buying Boost Mobile with the supposed intent to build their own network. Which anyone actually paying attention knew would never actually happen. Dish Network says a lot of shit, and follows through with basically none of it.

On July 1, 2020, Dish Network officially purchased Boost Mobile per their agreement with the companies and the United States' Department of Justice. The purchase was valued at $1.4B and transferred 9.3 million customers.[67] The intent of the US government was for Dish to erect a new nationwide wireless mobile network in order to compensate for reduced competition following the Sprint–T-Mobile merger.[citation needed]

However, in the years following the transaction Dish failed to sufficiently grow Boost Mobile's subscriber base and in 2025 announced that it will decommission its 5G network infrastructure, sell most of its wireless spectrum assets to AT&T, and shift Boost Mobile's operating model from a facilities-based network to a mobile virtual network, with its subscribers being hosted on AT&T's wireless network.[68]

T-Mobile followed the timeframe they agreed to for the merger to be approved, which was very public.

On March 11, 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced he will not appeal the judge's decision made during the previous month to reject the state AGs’ lawsuit against the T-Mobile-Sprint merger. He, instead, struck a settlement with the defending parties. The terms of the settlement include making its low-cost T-Mobile Connect plans available in California for at least 5 years, that T-Mobile customers can keep their T-Mobile plans held in February 2019 for a total of five years ...

Hmm... 2020 plus 5 years is... 2025... would you look at the calendar.

[-] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Even The Verge hasn't mentioned Project Gene5is in forever.

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