How Can I Setup My T-Mobile ID for My Home Internet Account...???

LawyerGal wrote:

I am having the same problem. It keeps saying it does not recognize the email address when trying to set up the ID...even though I received emails regarding my order at the same address. The welcome email only lists the router and the router's phone number.

This seems to be a persistent issue for T-Mobile. Luckily, this is not our only ISP. I'll give it a month and then cancel if this issue is not corrected. 

Edit: I have solved my problem at least. When you create an account for the forum, you are basically setting up your T-Mobile ID. If you log-in to the main page, it will ask you to link your phone. I used the phone number for the router, entered the last 4 of SSN and now my account is linked. 

For the prepaid folks, maybe there is an option to add phones to your account. If so, just use the number for the router and add it. Best of luck!

Initially, I was able to create the beginnings of a T-Mobile account from the normal login process (so far that it allowed me to register an email and password but would block me at the link a phone number step since the router's number is unrecognized and I do not have T-Mobile phone). Like everyone else, I spoke with a number of different people in the call center (friendly but seemingly unaware of how much of a hassle this is). Attempting to create a comment in this forum got me one step further as it prompted me to enter password reset questions as well as creating a non-email username. But I'm still getting blocked from logging in by the "Link a phone" step even though it's allowing me to comment here in the forum.