why doesn't T-mobile comply with CTIA code?
After my one year uphill battle with T-Mobile customer service, I have decided to contact someone at the corporate office. While trying to find out who to contact concerning all the lies I was told to get me to switch carriers I found a document from CTIA called "Consumer Code for Wireless Service and saw that in my experience with T-MOBILE they violated everything in code 1 through 7 and possibly code 12 yey I'm expected to keep paying my constantly increasing bill for a duration of 2 years for a contract that I unknowingly entered into by one if their lying sales representatives. Code one states that T-MOBILE is to disclose to the consumer" if a fixed-term contract is required and it's duration". I was just told one of my lines gets a free phone. I was also lied to about having service. When I gave the sales rep an address that I spend half the week at I was told "yes! That area has excellent 5G service" . I do not have any service at all in that area or 80% of my drive to that area. This is a violation of code 2. It was several months later after me calling atleast once a week (sometimes more depending if I had service or not) that it was confirmed by customer service that there is no service in that area but I wS in a 2 year contract and since I didn't cancel within 14 days of signing up I am stuck unless I come up with approximately $1000 to pay for the phone. They wouldn't even let me return the phone to get out of the contract. I've never seen this contract. Everything was done over the phone and the liar didn't disclose that information. I wonder if the contract states that T-MOBILE has to provide service for that contract to be valid? I was told lie after lie for months about not having service and I wonder if customer service is coached into telling these lies because I was either told the towers were down until Feb 17 and, ironically, they just so happened to be down in every town I had to drive through. After Feb 17 came and went and I still had no service I was told work began on the towers Feb 17 or I was told (after giving the address) I don't know why you can't use your phone, we are showing excellent 5g coverage in that are. Lie, lie, lie. To add insult to injury, I was told I'd receive a discount because I told the sales rep I was a nurse. I even questioned him saying " nobody ever recognizes nurse and gives us discounts" and his exact words were "well here at T-MOBILE we do". LIE.. I sent in my nursing license verification and for several months I paid around $150 for 3 lines and home internet then my bill shot up to well over $200 and I was told "sorry, nursed do not get discounted rates" and when I'd tell him what I was told they would honor the price I was quotes and they would, until the next bill. My phone bill continues to increase even after dropping a line. I wasn't receiving a discount for 3 lines so it should've gone down but it went up. My bill increased prior to canceling the line which T-Mobile is supposed to tell you about changes in your bill to allow you to cancel. They also violated code 5 which is about disclosures in their advertising. I did the "Keep and switch" and wasn't told I only had 39 days from the day I sign up. Now mind you, the clock starts ticking before you receive new sim cards and before the previous carrier unlocks your phone after you pay it off then it takes a few months to get reimbursed with an online visa that nobody accepts. My question is why am I held accountable and TMobile is not. I am paying a now high price for a service I am not provided. I feel like if I am locked in a contract with them that I was unaware of they should at the very least honor the price I was promised and I feel like when the line was canceled my bill should've decreased further but all I get when I call is "I'm sorry you don't have service". One guy said "atleast you have service half the week"!!!!! I try to get the word out as much as I can about T-MOBILE and their dishonest business practices. I hope to get relief through arbitration or possibly the FCC.
Sprint/T-Mobile Lease Breach of Contract
I am writing this to bring light to something I haven't seen being discussed and that I haven't received any resopution for. My issue is with Sprints "Flex Lease". The options for the Flex lease that I agreed to and as listed in my contracts are: - All options are for after you pay 18mo payments* 1. Pay remaining "purchase amount" once 18mo is up which typically is the amount of 6 more payments in one lump sum to "own" the device. 2. Pay the purchase amount after the 18mo is up but pay it by making 6 more monthly payments to own device. 3. Trade in the device and get another one (i.e. upgrade.) 4. Trade in device and cancel the line. 5. Do nothing and continue to pay a "lease charge" which is basically a full monthly device payment (no credits or promotional prices you might have paid for the 18mo) of which none of this goes towards purchasing/owning the phone. Once my leases were up on two of my lines, I went to select the 6 monthly payments to ownthe device as my contract stipulates. However, I noticed this was no longer an option. Instead, they have a 9 monthly payments option. I was confused so I downloaded my signed contracts (thanks for storing them for me) from my account and of course I was right, it says 6mo is an option yet not available to me. I went in chat and asked them to switch it to 6mo option but of course they tried and said they can only do 9mo option. Now I understand they changed all of the amounts so in the end 9 payments totals the same as what my contract says for 6 payments which totals the purchase amount but that isn't my issue. Now they might get unsuspecting users to stay with them an additional 3mo if they are planning to leave not realizing their contracts were for 6mo. I understand you can pay a little more each month towards the device and still pay it off in 6mo (customer service tried pulling both of these on me after hours and multiple days trying to explain my issue with it) but that is not my point. My issue is that my contracts clearly state my options to choose at the end of my lease but tmo/spr decided they would change that agreement and remove that option by making it 9mo instead of 6. To me, that is a breach of contract. We agreed to the options and signed an agreement and yet those options are no longer available. On the same note, I guarantee if a customer tried to change the agreement for any reason they would tell the customer to "look at your contract" or "you agreed to it in your contract" yet when I try calling them out for changing our agreement and tell them to "look at the contract" they (customer service reps) agree that it is 6mo but still proceed to tell me the options that currently exist and do nothing about it. I have 2 devices I pay upwards of 50+ dollars a month for going on 7mo now to "rent" the phones and have raised these concerns multiple times during the past 7mo to no avail. I have asked for them to refund those "rent" payments and scratch it off as I own the devices due to their breach of contract but instead of them looking into it or escalating it they try to offer me to trade them in and upgrade? That is pretty much an insult at this point. I have even threatened legal action and yet they still dont care. Lately they either leave the chat (similar to hanging up on someone) or provide me with random numbers guaranteeing they will help me which ends up being just a regular customer service number or to some random department who tells me they have no idea why they gave me the number as they don't even remotely handle those situations who then direct me back to where I started. Has anyone else had this problem? I suggest you all go through any agreements you have and ensure they havent tried to pull a fast one on you and change your agreements without your knowledge or consent.
Verbal romises don't hold any legal power. Why can't you just send me an email?
I have had T-mobile internet for a couple of years now but, have not changed my phones over. I spent HOURS on the phone with a rep this morning named Tyrel. He was an awesome guy and a great salesman. He figured out everything I needed and gave me a hell of a good deal. He sent me the final paperwork and it stated that all of the "free" stuff they were giving me I would be on the hook for at a total of $1,760 and I needed to sign for this before proceeding. So I asked him if he could send me an email with a simple explanation that once service was started I would be credited for this equipment and what my monthly bill would be. He spent over four hours more transferring to customer service and multiple managers. Each person told me the same thing and each time I would ask if I could get it in writing and we were put on hold repeatedly and each time told no. After nearly 8 hours on the phone I apologized to him and told him that I was not going to sign a one sided contract with no bottom line. I feel terrible for the guy but, his company put him in a terrible spot. There is no way that my company could opperate this way and I find it hard to believe that T-mobile has been able to.
