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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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[-] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

Well, fuck. These companies move in step with one another and I've been paying the same 60-something per month since January 2007 before AT&T gobbled up Cingular.

Guess I'm probably next.

[-] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

US Mobile is still in the "good prices, good service, be nice" phase of their existence. Buy out or enshittification should still be a few years off. It's a fraction of the price of TMO's new rates too.

[-] fusionsaint@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Came here to say this. I know the enshitification will come. It always will come but for now US mobile is fantastic.

[-] P13@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Damn dude that’s rough.

I pay €15/m for 35GB EU-wide data and unlimited talk/text. Sim only and not an introductory rate. In fact, I’ve been paying the same for years and the only thing that’s changed is my data limit slowly increasing.

I think unlimited plans are roughly double but I don’t use that much.

1 Gbps fiber at home for €50/m but unfortunately they do jack that up slowly over time so you either need to switch providers or lock in again for a promotional rate.

I don’t miss living in the US and getting fucked in the ass by Comcast and the like…

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

I have a deal in Ireland, 7.99 month for life, unlimited calls and data EU wide. Currently paying €30 pm for 1gbps fiber. Still remember being amazed at the cost of mobile phones in the USA when I was there on a summer visa as a student back in 2005, sounds like things haven't changed a bit.

[-] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

Comcast fucked so many people that they had to rebrand.

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