Comments on: T-Mobile’s new data plans

By: MimI

MimI — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:47:41 +0000

Thanks for your simple comment/reply. The other comments between yours & Rey’s had me very confused.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:16:13 +0000

I’m thinking that TMo will have all of these new customers now using the cheaper data plans, and six months to a year later, when they’re less than half way through their contract they’ll jack up the price of there data plans with 3G.

Wasn’t AT&T talking about advancing to 4G in the next year or two?

By: Vartan

Vartan — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:30:01 +0000

I have a sidekick 3 with the sidekick unlimited data plan i know it will work with a unlocked iphone, but i wana know if my web browser and text messaging and aim will work???? Can someone tell me before i go bi one

By: Carolos

Carolos — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:21:56 +0000

Interesting…

By: Lisa Cain

Lisa Cain — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:46:30 +0000

T-Mobile treats existing customers like garbage.

After 12 years with T-Mobile, I cannot even get them to send a defective charger replacement to me without a charge. I have to pay for all the shipping charges in order to get what they sold me and what I already paid for once to be replaced.

They can make a living off their defective products alone!

By: mike

mike — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 06:29:20 +0000

I have a sidekick I’d and a voice plan of 49.00 the sidekick add on for data is 19.99 and that includes text messages insant messaging e-mail and unlimited web.. Its one hell of a deal compared to what I was paying wth sprint pcs.

By: Ant

Ant — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:15:27 +0000

I’m reading all of this about the pricing etc. For $20 extra on a Sidekick you’ll have everything included; email, text messaging, and web browsing. So what’s the problem?

By: 3lite

3lite — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:55:55 +0000

I just read the news 10 minutes ago and minutes later switched over to $19.99 online!

I want my 3G!

By: Michaelg

Michaelg — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:57:36 +0000

I also just called, the Rep could not find the plan. But she seemed to know about the $10 drop from $30 to $20 for total internet add on package…but she didnt know how to apply it to my account becuase it didnt show on her screen. Anyhow I just logged onto my t-mo, went to “change plans/services” I clicked on “total internet addon” which I already had (it was already selected for $29.99) and then the page showed me two “total internet addon with hotspot” one was the already selected 29.99, and one was the new 19.99 rate. I deselected the 29.99 and selected the 19.99. Done deal. It’s on their systems now…no need to wait till 9/16 as the article states.

By: siobhan

siobhan — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:45:55 +0000

I called this morning and the rep said she had no clue of what I was talking about.

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:36:32 +0000

Ok tried again and they gave the rate plan. It is a DO NOT PROMOTE rateplan that the agent had to really look for to give to me. Make sure if you want the ‘SALE’ rate that you are insistant that it exists.

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:47:03 +0000

I just called th Tmobile about this rateplan 19.95 (Total Internet) and they said there was no price drop. But this could be because there agent is il-informed.

By: Edward Mendoza

Edward Mendoza — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:49:10 +0000

They are investing on consumer growth!

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:27:53 +0000

Yeah, this might be the same case, since they would want people to have the phone prior to launching the network in some markets.

By: dand

dand — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:25:35 +0000

I remember a while back when tmo first dropped the nokia 3220. It was the first EDGE phone, but tmo hadnt switched on the EDGE network until a month or two later. I wonder if this is going to be the case with the Samsung T639 (1700mhz 3G for Tmobile) that slipped through the FCC back in July. When that phone drops on the T, ill be holding my breath.

Thanks for the speculative response tmophonehome!

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:11:58 +0000

Swiffy – Is NYC on that initial list? Where are all the rest of the 3G phones? The t639 was supposed to come out yesterday, but nothing yet. I would love for them to allow people that are paying for the new low data $19.99 price and the T-MobileWeb plan to get 3G. That won’t probably happen though.

By: Swiffy

Swiffy — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:34:34 +0000

3g will begin in 17 cities in early october, increasing to approx 40 by the spring. not for the general public at first, just us testers and a few others.

By: derX

derX — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:13:31 +0000

Oh. Yay. Let’s get all the EDGE we can!

If they’re lowering prices so much, how are they going to pay for those 3G deployment costs.

While writing the above statement, I thought, hey, maybe they’re lowering the prices to get the users interested in data to increase their want of 3G when they finally do deploy it….at that time, the Samsung i760 and the VX6800 would’ve been freshly released, too.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:08:53 +0000

I just got a visit from my T-mobile rep today. She brought some new brochures with these new plans on it. One thing that was gone from the new rate plans is the Blackberry Minutes and Mail plan. I wonder if they are planning on stopping it?

By: tmophonehome

tmophonehome — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:57:44 +0000

I would speculate that 3G for T-Mobile is nearly 6 months away – at the very minimum. Tmo@home was discussed nearly 5 years ago with VoiceStream, and it was just until recently that you are seeing it. TMO is definitely the price leader and their network proves it! When did SUV drivers care about gas prices anyway?

By: test5477

test5477 — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:06:30 +0000

Well I stand corrected thanks TJ.

None the less it will hurt them in the future to not have the same coverage as the competitors.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:10:15 +0000

Well the reson tmo dosn’t use the 850mhz frequency is becaus that is att is using HSDPA. Tmo is planing on using umts but I would have hade had it both ways. Stupid fcc the tropped the ball on that one.

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:52:59 +0000

test5477- You are wrong. T-Mobile didn’t choose to use the 1700MHz spectrum. They didn’t have a chose since some of their markets don’t have enough spectrum to cover both Voice and Data at the same time, like Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T does. Verizon and AT&T have alot of spectrum since they use the 850MHz and 1900MHz band together in many markets. T-Mobile only has the 1900MHz band natively, and some cities can’t handle the voice network properly since spectrum is being used to the limit. When you add customers to your network, the spectrum gets used more and more, so therefore they need more spectrum. You can’t offer services without the right amount of spectrum to accommodate them.

Once T-Mobile launches 3G, you will see more and more phones become both Quad-band GSM/EDGE with Quad-band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA.

Phones with the Quad-Band GSM/EDGE will work worldwide, since it supports 850/900/1800/1900MHz, and it will become more useful since the phones will also support worldwide 3G since phones will start to have UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA 850/1700/1900/2100MHz chips.

When AT&T launched 3G 2 years ago, most 3G phones were only UMTS/HSDPA 2100MHz. Now most 3G phones are Tri-band UMTS/HSDPA to support AT&T and other companies that use 3G on the 850/1900MHz bands. This is to remind you, that AT&T also bought 1700MHz spectrum, but they have not mentioned what they will use that spectrum for.

By: Rey

Rey — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:32:37 +0000

Lance- thanks for clearing that up for me

By: dand

dand — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:09:21 +0000

Seriously does ANYONE know when the 3G launch is going to be? Someone out there HAS to know. tmophonehome? the BGR Himself perhaps? I need to start sleeping at night!

By: inebriat3d

inebriat3d — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:34:25 +0000

this is great to see! now that the curve is coming in a week or so…

By: AlphaVirus

AlphaVirus — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:19:21 +0000

Is Tmobile the only cell phone carrier who knows who to do right for its customers?

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:11:56 +0000

i was thinking of switching to tmobile just because there blackberry plans are way more reasonable than att’s i mean you get minutes data email and text messages if att did that i would keep them. im trying to keep costs down my airsoft business is still getting off the ground, just need a pda with a reasonable data plan and email

By: Crewdawg

Crewdawg — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:33:59 +0000

This is BS to increase the BES to 40.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:33:16 +0000

Chad: BES add-on is staying at the $30 price point when bundled with a voice plan. The $40/month is for a standalone BIS without any voice plan.

The article also forgot to mention that the standalone total internet plan is actually going down from $49 to $39.