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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / T-Mobile / June 2006Phone upgrades w. contract extension (family plan)
My wife and I are on the (no longer being offered) Family Time 400 plan. We want to upgrade our phones. The local t-mobile dealers/resellers all said we'd have to change to a more expensive plan to upgrade our phones. However, it seems by doing it via the t-mobile web page with a 2 year contract extension we can keep this plan. My only concerns are: can we really upgrade 2 phones this way (the tmobile rep. claimed we can if we do it one phone at a time on the web page), will the new phones really be unlocked as claimed (so we can transfer the SIM cards), and is this actually the best deal (apart from changing to another carrier)? Has anyone had experience of upgrading a phone this way? - especially multiple phones for a family plan. How did it work out for you? Thanks! If you're staying with TMobile you don't care if it's unlocked as the TMo SIM will work with any TMo phone. You can get it unlocked by them for free if you plan on using a prepaid SIM overseas. > My wife and I are on the (no longer being offered) Family Time 400 > plan. We want to upgrade our phones. The local t-mobile [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Thanks! Go to a company store. You'll be able to get the same deal as offered on-line for upgrades. Be careful of resellers or indirect dealers. While many are honest and straightforward, far too many of them can not be trusted. Because you are on such a low cost rate plan, you may not qualify for new customer prices even with a two year agreement. Regardless, you will get your best deal on an upgrade from either a company store, company web site or customer care. Beware of special deals from indirects on discontinued, refurbished, or gray market phones. I learned the hard way. You don't have to. > If you're staying with TMobile you don't care if it's unlocked as the TMo > SIM will work with any TMo phone. You can get it unlocked by them for free [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> >> Thanks! >My wife and I are on the (no longer being offered) Family Time 400 >plan. We want to upgrade our phones. The local t-mobile [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >the SIM cards), and is this actually the best deal (apart from changing >to another carrier)? You can generally extend the terms of the contract in force when you upgrade, no matter whether or not it's available to new customers. I've done that many times, beginning with the old North American Neighborhood plans that are no longer available. All that said, you can now get 700 family-time minutes for about what you're paying now, give or take $10. I'd personally consider that one, were I you. >> My wife and I are on the (no longer being offered) Family Time 400 >> plan. We want to upgrade our phones. The local t-mobile [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > you're paying now, give or take $10. I'd personally consider that one, > were I you. Maybe the OP is in the same situation is we are: we never use anything like our 400 minutes (almost all our calls to each other, which don't count), so why would we pay more money each month for extra minutes we don't need? Perce > Maybe the OP is in the same situation is we are: we never use anything > like our 400 minutes (almost all our calls to each other, which don't > count), so why would we pay more money each month for extra minutes we > don't need? Exactly! Most of our cell phone calls are between my wife and myself and so don't use up minutes, a lot of our other phone calls are now done via skype... I did just that a few months ago. I'm also on the 49.99 family plan and never use close to that amount of time, so it's a good plan for me. I upgraded mine on line to a Blackberry, and got a RAZR for the wife. The main reason was to upgrade our phones to get the benefit of the expanded 850 Mhz coverage where we frequently drive in TX. The process was easy on line, and yes, we did one phone at a time. With my SIM card, I can use any of my T-Mobile older phones as well as the new one. I gave my SE T-610 to my daughter (she has her own plan in another state) and she just swapped her SIM into my old phone and was on her way. I'm still on the 49.99 plan after the upgrade. Worked out great for me. John > My wife and I are on the (no longer being offered) Family Time 400 > plan. We want to upgrade our phones. The local t-mobile [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Thanks! Forgot to tell you on the last post that we did get the phones at the advertised new customer prices and got the full advertised rebate when we upgraded on line. John > My wife and I are on the (no longer being offered) Family Time 400 > plan. We want to upgrade our phones. The local t-mobile [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Thanks! |
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