T-Mobile: "We are not raising the price... we are moving you to a newer plan."

T-Mobile switches users to pricier plans and tells them it’s not a price hike::T-Mobile: “We are not raising the price… we are moving you to a newer plan.”

    • Dressedlikeapenguin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      213·
      2 years ago

      Thanks for not saying “look it up”. We can’t seem to keep anything nice. We were just about to leave for Mint. Do you like it?

      • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        16·
        2 years ago

        I have mint: The connection sucks, you get deprioritized against other traffic so bandwidth is usually garbage. It’s fine if you just need text and phone calls though.

        • maccentric@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          8·
          2 years ago

          Is that what’s going on? So often since I switched to Mint I’ll have full bars and can’t do anything online.

          • mtdyson_01@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            Anything that is not AT&T, Verizon or T-Mobile will most always rely on one of these three and their towers. Which means you will be deprioritized for their customers. There are some smaller companies that have their own towers but they are few and far between and cover a very small area. Google Fi for example, uses the T-Mobile network and a smaller network that only covers a small patch in the Midwest somewhere.

        • IamtheMorgz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          I have mint too and haven’t had much trouble with bandwidth. But to be fair I don’t use my phone for very much while not on wifi, mostly just streaming music and Google maps.

        • Fuck spez@sh.itjust.works
          English
          4·
          2 years ago

          I think this experience might be region-dependant. I’m in a major city on Mint and I routinely see 900Mbps+ down and never have any issues with streaming. I think the lowest speed test I ever saw was around 200Mbps.

        • Dressedlikeapenguin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I was worried about that since they buy access to towers, thank you for sharing your experience. Are able to see when that happens in a concrete way, or is more just the noticable lag?

      • extant@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        I switched from T-Mobile to mint not long ago and only two things changed, how much and who I pay, but like he said they’ll come for us soon enough now that they bought mint.

      • Cort@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        Mint got sold when Ryan Reynolds needed more money to buy that soccer team

      • Dudewitbow@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Mints fine in my experience, but my time is almost up (december) and have been using them since 2018. Im considering moving onto US Mobile which offers better plans (and option of which towers you want to use, they offer tmobile or verison, so pick based on phone specs/area) or a Google fi family plan