Postman Pat <
a...@the-post-office-not.com> wrote
> "Unlimited" is always going to be subject to a FUP.
Agree that "unlimited" never means unrestricted... in so much as...
I'm a creature of detail, so I am aware what "unlimited" means
for my specific account - but I'm not sure what others mean by it.
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My $25/month unlimited plan, as far as I'm aware, means to T-Mobile USA
- Unlimited free phone calls to/from USA to/from USA numbers
- Unlimited free SMS messaging (also both ways)
- Unlimited free MMS messaging (also both ways)
- Unlimited free high speed data (also both ways, see caveat)
- Unlimited free roaming (I'm not sure if that's for data or phone though)
- 5GB/month free hotspot/tethering (also both ways)
Plus I have two SIM-enabled iPads which have 200MB/month for life
(while both were bricked, I proved to Apple I bought one of them,
so at the moment, only one of those two SIM-enabled iPads is still
bricked by Apple for me not having logged into Apple servers frequently).
Note: I've _never_ needed to create a mothership account on my Android
where I can do anything I want given there are plenty of FOSS apps to
replace Google app functionality such as the FOSS Google Play Store app and
the FOSS Google YouTube app and the FOSS Ungoogled Chromium app, etc.
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https://i.postimg.cc/Bnyr9fP1/account01.jpg> Works better w/o Google
In fact, just as a Windows PC works better with iOS without iTunes, an
Android phone works better when you don't create any accounts on it.
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The caveat is that T-Mobile reserves the right to limit the high-speed data
to 50GB per month per tower if the tower is considered a congested tower.
In that case, the data does NOT turn off but drops to lower speeds
(perhaps unusably so - as I've never gotten anywhere close to 50GB).
My plan used to be much less than $25/month/line but I added "Simple
Global" to all the lines because we visit Germany frequently.
The Simple Global plan includes (as I recall):
- Free data (not guaranteed to be high speed) while in most of Europe
- Phone calls from Europe to USA for twenty five cents (USD) per minute
- Unlimited free roaming (I'm not sure if that's for data or phone though)
- The 200MB/month for the iPads does NOT work while in Europe (too bad)
In addition, for years now (AFAIK) T-Mobile will give any postpaid USA
customer a free 5G Android phone (mine are the Galaxy A32-5G) per line,
where I've gotten five of them so far (3+2 returns under warranty).
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I also picked up an iPhone from them but it was only at half price
(with a trade-in) so the Android phones are a much better deal overall.
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https://i.postimg.cc/YC1B906F/tmopromo01.jpg> A32-5G & iPhone 12 contract
Where you can see in those screenshots that T-Mobile breaks the discount
into 24 monthly chunks, meaning you have to pay what's remaining if you
leave T-Mobile (as far as I know, T-Mobile doesn't do "contracts" per se).
You can leave anytime - and if you do, you simply pay what part of the
phone is left that wasn't already discounted due to your monthly credits.
The only cost for the free Android phone is the up-front sales tax (which
is $0 in some red states but in my very blue California, it's 10% of MSRP).
Other than the sales tax and the fact there's a two-year time period for
the free'ness of the phone to be realized, there are no other charges.
Note: I'm well aware the ignorant iKooks _hate_ that Android phones are
free, so they claim there's a cost - but there isn't any change in your
plan costs whether or not you take T-Mobile up on their free Androids.
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