“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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    I get this, we have retired 3G and people bought unlimited 4G 10/month packages which are defo going to be retired at some stage.

    The one I cant figure out is the home fibre, a new crowd offer 500gb speeds for 30/month for life. It would take a long time for that bandwidth to become antiquated.

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    Friendly reminder that 5G service availability in the US is still dogshit and often incurs packet loss which you can mitigate by disabling 5G which forces your device to operate at 4G/LTE which has a superior range.

    Of course they could have set a software preference for LTE over 5G when PL is detected, but that advanced technology used by literally every other multiband radio standard is too complicated for billion dollar OEMs and service providers to implement.

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    You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

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    I was on tmo for 15 years. Switched to Mint and am paying less for both phone and home internet and its tmo’s network still. Unless you’re taking advantage of some of their odd benefits there no reason to stick with them.

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    hmmm will see, I’m month to month with a 15$ plan. been meaning to look into alternatives anyway.

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      9 hours ago

      A whole whopping 2 downvotes. No one from T-Mobile is here trying to sabotage some random lemmy post.

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        Hey t mobile! I like money! Give me money and I’ll vote and shill for you

        Aww who am I kidding we all know I’ll blow the money on crab sandwiches and chowder

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        Nobody said sabotage but you. I just noted their presence as something to keep an eye upon. I wasn’t even all that serious - certainly not as serious as you seem to have taken it.

        ETA: Hmm, now that I think if it, maybe that’s telling… 🤔🤪

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      It could be bots, theres a bunch of bot accounts that just upvote and downvote at random, some never post, some posted months ago and voted 10,000 times since.