Is there a PrePaid Plan on T-Mobile?

syaoran wrote:

Teknomad wrote:

syaoran wrote:

Teknomad wrote:

• I used to have a Pre-Pay plan and I could switch to another plan as needed. Evidently, that is no longer available.

 

• Plans are confusing! Customer Service people use BS and double-speak. I can’t get a straight answer about getting a Pre-Pay or Pay-Go plan. 

 

US Mobile Plans are a RIPOFF! 

 

The US has some of the highest mobile costs in the world. In most countries, the cost of a cell is one-third (⅓) or less for the month. 

For example: 500MB in the UK costs about $ 8.80. The least expensive monthly charge is Austria @ $ 5.00.

Furthermore, T-Mobile constantly changes the charges, adds on charges, etc. 

My Magenta plan used to be $ 50.00. Recently, T-Mobile started charging $ 70.00 without authorization or explanation. I use very little data and hardly ever make cell phone calls. $ 840.- per year is a LOT of money for virtually nothing! 

 

• There are always additional charges in the fine print. 

 

Simply OUTRAGEOUS! 

Clearly you have never seens rates for Canada and Australia.  If you think the US rates are high.  You will pay at least 3 times more for a lot less in Canada. compared to T-Mobile.  The rates in Australia and New Zealand make Canada look cheap by compariaon.

Well, thanks but—I have seen and used plans for Europe and the UK as well as having seen plans for even China. Those are much, much less expensive! 

When I travel, especially abroad I always buy a sim card/plan for an unlocked phone. The cost is extremely low compared to T-Mobile and other U.S. provider  charges, even if included in a plan. 

Furthermore, despite claims of having large coverage areas, T-Mobile has plenty of dead zones and is quite often unusable in remote regions of the U.S. 

 

Like I said-the U. S. consumer is being RIPPED OFF! (Ditto for Canadian and those in Oz. 

No carrier and even all carriers combined don't cover the complete lower 48, let alone the entire nation.  I travel a lot as well.  I still have my Vodafone UK prepaid SIM that I have had since 2010.  Yeah, their rates are cheaper but the British Pound is also worth a lot more than the US Dollar.  There is also a lot more competition over there for such a small area to cover.  Alaska is 6 times larger than the UK and that is just one state 

 

Personally, I think the US carriers, especially T-Mobile offer a lot of value for this side of the world.  Especially considering US networks are way ahead of most of the rest of the world in technology for a significantly more massive coverage area.  

Continental Europe is larger than the U.S. If you count Eastern Europe, then massively larger than the U.S. 

The U.S. dollar is the 10th strongest currency in the world. Regardless, the cost of living in much of the developed world is lower than that of the U. S. while mobile charges are also lower. 

The problem in the U.S. is the lack of competition and, therefore, higher costs with providers gouging consumers in the name of predatory capitalism. Why? Because they can! 

Technology in much of the developed world, Europe, Japan, etc., has often been ahead of the U.S. One of the reasons being that Europe, and much of the rest of the world, used a single GSM network, vs the U.S. having had several, disparate networks including GSM and CDMA—both of which are now being phased out with 4 & 5G. 

Regardless, in most of the developed world mobile phone rates are much less expensive as is the cost of living. 

Please explain what sort of “value” T-Mobile offers compared to carriers abroad.

Do you have suggestions as to how to lower T-Mobile costs in the U.S.?