That's the price for Germany World Cup failure.

You know all the corporations are now thinking..."The prez lies with immunity. The precedent has been set. Let's go boys...SELL SELL SELL !!".

Got the text this morning. God damn scammers.

This is some straight up MBA enshittificarion. I’m on the military plan with all unlimited yada yada, even then data is throttled down after a certain amount. Waiting for an email that says they’re supporting the troops by increasing the amount we can contribute to the economy or some shit.

Again? Didn't they do this a couple years ago too?

T-Mobile raised our rate last year which is bad enough by itself after promising not to, but they also seriously reduced the quality and availability of their customer service. Why stick around for that? We switched to a much cheaper prepaid company (~1/3rd T-Mobile's current price) and couldn't be happier.

Edit: Was thinking about the other problems we had with T-Mobile and forgot to mention one big problem... Incoming calls routinely would not ring and voicemails left just vanished. This happened for months. Multiple friends (and a couple of doctor's offices) mentioned it often enough that we realized we had a problem. T-Mobile's great customer service could find nothing wrong and refused to look at the lost calls that originated from other TMO customers.

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

I got the text today... Our bill will go up an extra $18/month. Great.

For what it's worth, y'all, Mint Mobile is pretty great. I actually got an email in December when renewal time came telling me I should downgrade my plan and save money, based on my data usage for 2025.

I stopped using T-Mobile a few months ago. Used to need the Internet while living in a shelter, until I moved into a government funded apartment. I now have TAG Mobile for my phone (free each month w/ 10 gigs of data), and $30/month AT&T 100mb up/down fiber Internet.

Being poor sometimes has advantages.

If you have ANY government assistance program (like SNAP), you qualify for free mobile and reduced cost home Internet.

I have Cape and they have been great so far. I recommend them. I'll leave some info below that I wrote in a privacy sub. Skip the first paragraph if you want to avoid their advertising scheme, but it was the big reason I could afford to switch to them so I thought I might be helpful to others. Here is my referral code for anyone that wants to try it: 8DHE3HVV

They are currently running an early adopter promotion until the end of the year where you get an unlimited plan that is $70 per month for life, and if you use someone else's referral Code it drops you down to $50/month for as long as that person stays on Cape. What's crazy is that it then drops to $30 for another referral, $10 after another, and $0 after that. For as long as those other people are on. I thought that was a pretty cool deal honestly given that I was previously paying $55 a month for T Mobile.

So a quick review from my experiences so far.

Sign up was easy and basically needed no identifying information. I use Cape on Graphene OS through the stock messaging app. It allows me to send videos, images, and so on. There are some issues with group chats still I think, but I havent really experienced any issues so far. The coverage and speeds have been solid.

The IMSI rotation is automatic and a great protocol. They have a bunch of other very smart architecture choices. I used to write patents for telecomm companies like Ericsson and Qualcomm and I'm really impressed with their engineering. My friend is an independent security pentester and educator, and their company recently audited Cape. They said they did excellently and had no reservations on recommending them to me. I also watched a lot of interviews about the company and their system. After that, I felt comfortable testing Cape out. My hope was that they would be way more reliable approach than my previous set up (I followed the Bazzell set up with Mint under a pseudonym and VoIP.ms but voip.ms has been really spotty lately and I have young kids so that's no good).

I still have VoIP.ms for my old number, but I use my main Cape cell number for close family and friends who won't get on Signal for whatever reason. They also give you two free burner numbers for texting only, so I use those for 2FA and sign ups if needed. You can only text to those numbers and you currently can't port them out, but I believe they are middle to end encrypted (check me on that one though).

There are many other features and caveats (like they're working on RCS, they have different available features for iPhone users, etc.), but I recommend their interviews with channels like the hated one or techlore or elsewhere. Those helped me a lot.

I'm happy to answer any other questions. It took me a while to decide to try them out because I'm pretty tedious about my privacy set up, but I've honestly been pretty impressed so far and I love the idea of having a mobile core telecomm company adopt some actual privacy architecture in this middle space.