T-Mobile Just Ripped 8 Million Customers Off Their Grandfathered Plans – and Raised Their Bills

You can buy sim cards from Walmart. Last time I was around I was using ultra mobile, although Walmart had their own brand (can't remember the name). It was $40 no subscription for unlimited talk, text, and data although I think mint now has a similar plan for $30 Link there's like a ton of these companies, just go to Walmart in the electronics area near the laptops and whatnot there's a bunch of sum cards and esims you can get with different deals, I'm pretty sure they also sell mint mobile sim cards

I used their wifi for my place without a Xfinity cable subscription but you could only connect two devices so I used my old phone as a hotspot and that worked for like up to four devices. It was like $10 per month.

500MB of 5G is crazy, I use double or quadruple that in a day. Great way to be forced to use your phone less I guess. One of my favorite features of recent mobile plans is truly unlimited data with deprioritization once you hit a certain limit, as I'm almost never in a location where I get deprioritized.

I am almost always on wifi so its not a problem. Up until I switched to them in March, I have never had unlimited cellular data.

256k is surprisingly usable if you're not on the corporate hellscape internet. On Lemmy, nostr, in privacy respecting websites, since they don't have all kind of bloat and crap like that, things actually load pretty well.

I am hoping to get the increase to 512 kbps though, because it would be helpful. I am fully aware though, that higher and higher speeds incur diminishing returns, so 256 kbps is much better than 128 kbps would be, and 512 kbps is much better than 256 kbps will be, but once you get up to a certain level, speed increases stop mattering nearly as much. I would peg that level at probably something like 10 Mbps. Once you get over that speed, things just don't matter quite as much.

good thinking! still though, $35 all day for 2 lines aint bad

yeah i know about the data cap. its not really a problem for me, but i should probably have specified when recommending.

Well, fuck. These companies move in step with one another and I've been paying the same 60-something per month since January 2007 before AT&T gobbled up Cingular.

Guess I'm probably next.

They don't even hide it any more. Rug pulls left and right because fuck you.

"What are you going to do about it? Absolutely nothing."

That's their thought process.

The modern consumer has a spine made from jello. They've had company after company fuck them over but rather than slightly inconvenience themselves to find an alternative or do without, they'll just bend over and get fucked.

People have forgotten that they're the power and companies can be told to go eat shit.

In 2025 T-Mobile reported a net income (net profit) of $11.0 billion. Think of the poor shareholders!

The catch is that it's "unlimited" in that sense that the mobile companies have made people accept now, i.e., deprioritized. I'm on Visible, which is Verizon's MVNO; my plan has unlimited deprioritized everything, and it's $25/mo, with $5/mo discount for the first two years so I'm actually paying $20/mo for now. It's mostly good enough for my purposes; I'm usually on Wifi anyway. When I was leaving a protest and turned my phone back on, I couldn't get enough access to check the bus schedule or text my family, so that was frustrating; dense crowds are a problem. But I was previously paying like $130/mo for Verizon, so it's more than worth putting up with. I got some mesh radios for emergency comms.

Damn dude that’s rough.

I pay €15/m for 35GB EU-wide data and unlimited talk/text. Sim only and not an introductory rate. In fact, I’ve been paying the same for years and the only thing that’s changed is my data limit slowly increasing.

I think unlimited plans are roughly double but I don’t use that much.

1 Gbps fiber at home for €50/m but unfortunately they do jack that up slowly over time so you either need to switch providers or lock in again for a promotional rate.

I don’t miss living in the US and getting fucked in the ass by Comcast and the like…

US Mobile is still in the "good prices, good service, be nice" phase of their existence. Buy out or enshittification should still be a few years off. It's a fraction of the price of TMO's new rates too.

Is it? I'm being moved to some new plan that doesn't seem to actually exist.

The same company that told me they would give me a $300 prepaid visa to switch. Then told me I had to stay a customer for 30 days before I would get it. And at 30 days told me I was outside the 30 day window to claim it?

I'm so surprised.