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I jumped ship to another carrier right after they were bought out by T-Mobile and I've dodged ~~price hikes and now~~ data breaches. T-Mobile just ruins everything they touch.
Price hikes? I just renewed for $250 for a year. I don't remember the exact price I paid the year before, but $250 is still incredibly cheap compared to most, isn't it?
My wife has been with Mint for 5 years now and there have not been any increases to her plan, on the contrary, they increased the data allowance in her tier
The numbers is the entire reason I remain with Mint. I liked Mint. T-mobile isn't a company I'd like to do business with and will switch away the moment I see an increase if there's a better offer elsewhere.
I've been with them for something like 7 years now. Started with 1gb of data, and now I get 4gb. I've never changed price tier as well. Over all really great service, bummer about the breach though.
Hmm, I think I might be mistaken on that then. I remember them announcing that they were nixing the $15 plan (which a couple of my family members were on), but it's still there. Maybe they reverted it, or it was just Reddit spreading nonsense information. I'll edit my comment.
Eh, I have my folks on t-mo's $15/each for 3.5gb/unl/unl plan. My second line is with tello for $6/mo. $25/mo is cheap compared to my at&t business postpaid plan (phone + laptop + watch for ~$130 out the door), but if I wasn't going for features, I'd be right there with them for the $15 plan. I'd even go both lines from tello, but the difference between tmo qci6 and qci7 is brutal in my area, and often means data becomes completely unusable during the day. Over-subscribed towers. So t-mo MVNOs are a nogo for me, thus $15.
Jumped to where if you don't mind my asking?
Tello. The service and price have been basically the same as pre-acquisition Mint. They also use T-Mobile's network but are not owned by them (...for now, at least.)
I wasn't aware of their existence. Thank you. I see they're slightly less expensive than tmo's mint and don't require bulk buys, so that's nice.
Tello (and all* [except Google Fi's flex plan, and their most expensive plan] tmo MVNOs) run at qci7, or one peg below tmo direct customers* (except tmo essentials and those who go over their 'high speed data cap', which are at qci9 or 'the back of the bus'). This can mean virtually nothing in some areas, or it can mean that the tower you are on is so over subscribed/at capacity so hard that data becomes non-existant.
I have tello as a second line, where data isn't important. But my home area falls under the 'data is non-existant' category during the day, which is why they are my second line.
Just be cautious.
These kinds of plans work great for when you are on Wi-Fi 99% of the time and you just need it for the 1%.
What makes you so sure they didn't retain your data?
There's chance they did, but I didn't get any kind of announcement email about it. I also used an email alias for my old Mint account, so if I suddenly start getting spam emails to that address, I'll have my answer, lol