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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / T-Mobile / March 2006tMobile Prepaid: Am I Just Wishing....?
Put a couple of phones on tMobile's prepaid plan last year: $100 for a thousand minutes. The year expired today, so I want down to tMobile prepared to lay down another $100 for each phone. Big surprise (I hope...). The salesperson said "No, your minutes will not expire and all you need to do is purchase a minimum increment." In this case it was $10.00. In my relief not to be laying out ten times that amount, I just ponied up, said "Thanks, see you next year" and left. But now that I'm thinking about it, it sounds too good to be true: a standby mobile phone for ten bucks a year. (well, actually $10.60...). Have I got it right? Am I really good for another year (or until the accumulated minutes are used up)? Or is this just wistful thinking and I'm going to have to buy another $10 worth of minutes sometime in the next 30 days or so? I can make it back to the tMobile store sometime later this week, but maybe somebody here can save me the trip...  SignaturePeteCresswell Instead of asking a bunch of self styled experts :)) just kidding, I think you should call T-Mobile Customer Service and document your answer with the CS Reps ID number date and time. Double Tap > Put a couple of phones on tMobile's prepaid plan last year: $100 for a > thousand [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > maybe > somebody here can save me the trip... once you buy up $100 of charges, which you did with your first purchase, you are a gold member. as a gold member, anytime you buy more minutes you extend your deadline by a year.so, your 10.60 extended your time by a year. > Put a couple of phones on tMobile's prepaid plan last year: $100 for a > thousand [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > maybe > somebody here can save me the trip... Per Felipe Garcia: >as a gold member, anytime you buy more minutes you extend your deadline by a >year.so, your 10.60 extended your time by a year. Now *that* is a deal!. SignaturePeteCresswell That's a great deal, but their prepaid coverage area is way too limited for me. > Now *that* is a deal!. Per ditinsta: >That's a great deal, but their prepaid coverage area is way too limited for >me. That's the second or third time I've read something in which I think somebody has alluded to different coverages for monthly and prepaid customers on tMobile. I put it to the guy in the store yesterday and he claimed that the coverage/network/access were the same. Sounds like I ought to take a phone with one of my existing prepaid SIMs and carry it around for awhile comparing bars with my monthly phone before doing anything rash... SignaturePeteCresswell >Per ditinsta: >>That's a great deal, but their prepaid coverage area is way too limited for >>me. >That's the second or third time I've read something in which I think somebody >has alluded to different coverages for monthly and prepaid customers on tMobile. In the Bad Old Days the prepaid t-mobile accounts were limited to the area served by the underlying legacy network. That is, t-mobile had purchsed/merged a bunch of different companies, so the prepaid phones only worked in the area served by the original (pre t-mobile) compnay but not the others.. Apparently (no first hand info on this) the situation now is that a current prepaid phone/SIM will work anywhere in the native (full) t-mobile network, but will not function in the (fairly modest) partenred/roaming areas. Signature_____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] > Apparently (no first hand info on this) the situation now > is that a current prepaid phone/SIM will work anywhere > in the native (full) t-mobile network, but will not function > in the (fairly modest) partenred/roaming areas. In the state of Minnesota, outside Minneapolis/St.Paul, most of the state is roaming either on Wireless Alliance (RCC & Aerial/Voicestream/T-Mobile joint venture), and Dobson Cellular One. Also, I think Western Wireless. Most of Wisconsin has no T-Mobile native coverage either. It is provided by Cingular, Einstein PCS (Airadigm), and at least one more that I have noticed on I-90 west of Madison (has three letters on the phone display). If you compare the T-mobile prepaid maps to non-prepaid, there is a huge difference in geographical coverage, particularly now that they show the GSM 850 roaming that used to be omitted from the maps (though has worked in some cases for at least two years). > once you buy up $100 of charges, which you did with your first purchase, you > are a gold member. > > as a gold member, anytime you buy more minutes you extend your deadline by a > year.so, your 10.60 extended your time by a year. TMO prepaid is a fantastic bargain for those of use who don't use many mins. I dropped my regular postpay $30/300mins sprint phone because I couldn't talk on the cell for 300mins/mo if someone had a gun to my head. I use a little less than 1000mins/year, so the $100 suits me perfectly. At 1/3 the cost of the cheapest sprint plan. And free incoming sms... Signature"What would you call a system in which the leader tosses his enemies into secret prisons, uses Orwellian parsings of the law to legitimize torture, and spies on his own citizens?" - the Week, quoting Jonathan Schell >> once you buy up $100 of charges, which you did with your first purchase, >> you [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > perfectly. At 1/3 the cost of the cheapest sprint plan. And free > incoming sms... Can you say one where the President is named Abraham Lincoln ? read this http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/hl834.cfm |
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