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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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[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

I dunno anyone still using the big 3 telcos, not much value over the MVNOs unless you're really the type that wants to bundle Disney+ or something.

[-] scoobydoo27@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago

Every time I’ve tried one of MVNOs I’ve got shit service at my work. I’m affected by this new price hike from T-Mobile so I’m going to try one again but not expecting great results.

[-] doodlebob@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Check out US mobile... If you get their top plan, you can change to any of the 3 mobile providers for free

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

This. US Mobile has been great to me. I have no intention of going anywhere else in the foreseeable future.

[-] zewm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The big companies give line prio over mvno clients.

[-] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

telcos

Are we Australians rubbing off on the international English lexicon? I don't know how to feel about this haha

[-] prole 4 points 1 month ago

That's definitely not new slang. In the US at least.

[-] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

TIL then I guess. If I imagine someone saying this in a US accent, I just can't picture it haha

[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I’ve never heard of ”telco” as a US citizen in my 40s. I’ve heard “telecom” but not “telco”.

[-] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

I only have in the utility industry and even then it's not often telcom

[-] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you for somewhat restoring my head cannon haha

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Switched to an MVNO and have been quite happy with it. Cut bill by almost 2/3.

MVNOs do have a lower data priority than the parent network, but IME this hasn't made much difference. I don't tend to stream a lot of video on my phone though, so it might be a concern if you need fast data.

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