“I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock
“I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock
We obtained 900 complaints the FCC received about T-Mobile’s infamous price hike.
This is felony level bait-and-switch going on, here. This really should have criminal charges attached to the perpetrators.
"Sir, the customers are complaining about charging more money even though they had a pricelock for life deal".
"Yeah? And? Fuck em!"
I mean.....I kid, but that's the CEOs legit stance on the issue.
I remember seeing this commercial. I knew back then that it was horseshit.
"This is what happens when the government lets companies swallow the completion (the latest being Sprint). We have antitrust laws in the country that are being ignored and ultimately the consumer loses," a New York resident told the FCC.
YES. The government needs to stop rubber-stamping these enormous mergers.
I had a Google GSuite account from back when they advertised it as a free for life solution for families who wanted to use their own domain. They stopped offering this a long time ago, but kept us around. A few years ago, they tried to end it, but walked that back after facing resistance. We were among the earliest adopters and many of us shilled pretty hard for gmail over the years. Not only would they have gone back on their word, but my app and media purchases would be tied to a crippled no-email account (identity only) because they didn't have a migration path to normal gmail. That means multiple logins. Also, the gsuite inbox doesn't have the inline ads or anything while the regular one does. I've been working to move away from google because I imagine they'll try to end this again later, but also just because we understand better who google really is.
The site the greedy little pigboy runs was instrumental to the resistance but since it's enshittified, we may not be able to resist again. Its fine to say something is for a lifetime, but you have to honor that or you've been dishonest and no one can trusts thing you say.
The only reason I still have google around is android. When we finally get a linux daily driver phone that meets my minimum needs, I'm migrating the remainder of my stuff. I'll happily give up some functionality to do it. I just hope they can keep their free for life promise until then.
I can only vouch for my setup; many variations are available.
- Nextcloud - files, photo autoupload, contacts, calendar
- Postfix and dovecot (and a bunch of friends) - email
- Pixelfed - private instagram. Can federate, but I've never enabled that.
- Opnsense - firewall, vpn, adblocking via unbound. Wireguard is my choice, but any would do. I get all my lan stuff available everywhere.
- Jellyfin - media library. It's kinda sucky, though, thinking of going back to plex, unfortunately.
- Lemmy - well. You know what it is :)
- Graphene on a pixel
Hit me up if you ever decide to go self hosting route and need a hand with a thing or two!
I also used GSuite for a long time. Its betrayal of its users is a big part of why I switched to Proton. Much better UX.
T mobile going downhill since merging with sprint and losing Legere.
Who could have predicted less competition resulting in worse service other than everyone
Caught me completely by obvious
One of the companies making GPS navigators for cars used to advertise lifetime map updates. Small print: lifetime of the device, two years after release
I bought my dad's 2014 MKZ off him 4 years ago. They stopped producing GPS updates several years before I bought it off him. According to the device, there are times it thinks I'm driving through farmland when I'm at a Target parking lot.
Yeah, but a couple dozen sociopaths at the top got significantly richer, so fuck this entire portion of the population. Clearly the right people won.
/s
"Not for long," T-mobile said as it dispatched hit squads to quash the lawsuit rebellion.
Must be owned by the cousins of Boeing.
Careful, Users. TMobile is large enough to go the Boeing route, and start making people disappear. Then, Users, your Lifetime Price Lock will be literally void.
Although, it would also be void if tmo died--err... disappeared...
or, alternatively, their lifetime offer has truly been honoured.
Hahahaha!! That's really good! Hahahahahah!!!
Yep, I quit T-Mobile and switched to Mint last month for this exact reason. My price is now 1/4 what I was paying before, and everything else is exactly the same. Should’ve done this years ago.
I was on Mint but had super unreliable SMS service, switched to Visible which is under Verizon and have had 0 problems.
But then Verizon would get some of that money. The pile of shit company that programmed a physical key on your phone next to the scroll wheel to bill you 1.99 a month for the privilege of using 0.00001 MB of data if you accidentally clicked it during the month and it opened their shit “get it now” store. Literally the company that pushed for hostile design back in the 2000s. Fuck them. Fuck Bank of America , Wells Fargo and Comcast. They lost a customer for my entire life due to their shit business practices.
Only thing you can rely on staying the same anymore is Costco hotdogs.
There's also there's also the perpetual feeling of "what dumbfuck in the government though this up". That never leaves us
Can't rely on that either. The CEO who threatened to kill over trying to change the hotdog price has been gone for a while now.
i keep hearing about this price hike but my bill hasn't changed since 2008.
I still have the T-Mobile G1 phone plan.
I'd just keep my head down if I were you
I still have the T-Mobile G1 phone plan.
Man that was a great phone.
My plan isn't quite that old, but it's getting up there. They recently increased my price by a few dollars per line. Then they tried to get me to move to a current plan, which turned out to be 20% higher price for less return. I had to try not to burst out laughing at the poor guy's face.
I've been with TMo for more than 20 years--they're the only carrier I've ever used--but if my price goes up again I'm jumping ship.
Loved my HTC Dream (G1)
It got slow after a year, then I put a custom ROM on it and it was a brand new phone.
Yeah I kept a tmo plan for a stupid amount of time. Eventually MVNO plans were just cheaper, so i switched. Why does anyone want to stay on some legacy plan anyway? Were any of them any good? This is what I would get for very low usage on tmobile now:
Boost Mobile is advertising the same thing right now. Who actually believes these ads?
"I got a text message stating my monthly rate will increase $5 per line, that is [a] $50 increase because I have 10 lines."
The fuck do you have 10 cell phones for?
Even if it's you + spouse + 8 kids, kids below a certain age don't need a phone and kids over a certain age should pay for their own damn phone.
#get off my lawn.