For example, having 10 lines will cost $300 per month ($240 for the first eight and $60 for the remaining two lines).
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The plan starts at $70 a month for a single line, with a second for $50 and additional lines for $20 each a month, the Bellevue, Washington-based company said in a statement Thursday. The obvious downsides are just 128 Kbps speeds on tethering and of course an FUP: customers using more than 26 GB a month “may see their data traffic prioritised behind other users”.
Sprint said its new plans would roll out on August 19.
Unlimited data is the most common request from customers, CEO John Legere said in a video announcing the news. The actual pricing for T-Mobile One is $70 for the first line, $50 for the second, and $20 for lines 3-8. T-Mobile’s LTE network has been built for just this objective – to unleash unlimited data.
However, it’s important to note none of the options are truly new or fully unlimited.
Don’t be surprised that once you’ve reached the data limit, data speed will be throttled a bit. The new plans do away with throttling.
Subscribers to the new T-Mobile One plan will also be subject to the standard definition video quality-480p. T-Mobile subscribers can keep the plans they have too. Sprint’s plan, called Unlimited Freedom, has the same video limitation and then goes even further, limiting music streams to 500kbps (which is relatively high) and gaming to an extremely slow 2Mbps.
Can T-Mobile top AT&T’s big news from Wednesday?
Starting Sept. 6, T-Mobile will cut the price of its unlimited plan and start phasing out plans that have data limits.
AT&T has tried to simplify the plans by eliminating those overage charges.
People will no longer need to hold back on using data on smartphones, but those who haven’t been using that much data could wind up paying more for unlimited data they don’t need.
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Meanwhile, Verizon recently introduced a pre-paid “Safety Mode” feature, which allows users to pay a set overdraft fee before quotas are met. The plans include rollover data, unlimited talk and text, and unlimited texting from the U.S.to 120 countries. Verizon made a similar move last month. T-Mobile One launches on September 6 at T-Mobile stores nationwide and t-mobile.com for postpaid customers.
