“T‑Mobile will never change the price you pay for your T‑Mobile ONE plan.” That was the promise. The Un-contract. The whole reason millions of customers picked the magenta team over Verizon and AT&T in the first place. Now T-Mobile is retiring legacy 3G and 4G-era plans — Magenta, ONE, Simple Choice — and automatically moving customers onto “modern” 5G plans at higher monthly costs. Billing changes hit mid-July for the current wave. The company that swore it would never surprise you with a rate hike just sent the notification.

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    17 hours ago

    When I’m back stateside I just grab one of those monthly unlimited sims for like $35 and forget about it. Dang, you could probably get away with that $10 Xfinity wifi if you have a voip number although coverage probably isn’t amazing.

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      17 hours ago

      Buddy, I live here and I have no idea what you’re talking about. If you’re telling the truth, I send me a link, because $35 for unlimited mobile data is a steal.

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        15 hours ago

        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.

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        15 hours ago

        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

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        17 hours ago

        I think Mint offers that, similar deal with Xfininity mobile but you need to have an Xfinity cable subscription

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          16 hours ago

          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.