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and they acquired Mint, which almost certainly means my $30/mo prepaid plan will disappear soon.
T-Mobile was the worst, most incompetent company I have had the displeasure of working with in recent years. I fled to Mint. To say I’m chuffed by that acquisition is an understatement.
If you meet certain income requirements, you can get one from one of Mobile Citizen's resellers (such as PC's for People) for around $15/month.
Or, for like $400-500/year you can get one through the Calyx Institute as a "gift" for donors.
There's no getting out of this contract either. It's part of a deal Sprint made when they took over $1B in taxpayer money to build out their LTE infrastructure. This is how they pay it back - forever.
If you needed something to help swing the pendulum back towards the consumer, still, the merger wasn't good for wireless competition in the U.S.
Post merger I went from a $25/month t-mobile plan to a $15/month t-mobile plan. Not entirely apples to apples, but close. My spouse went from $30/month to $25/month on Verizon for more data. And there's lots of options at https://prepaidcompare.net/
Prepaid sounds great unless you ever want roaming, it’s either straight up not possible or priced in a way that makes it impractical.
I will say, I'm not terribly fond of mergers on principle. However, based on my insight as a former customer and shareholder of the company, Sprint's goose was most definitely cooked to a crisp. If this merger had not happened, I could have seen Sprint file for bankruptcy, with Verizon and AT&T picking the carcass clean. I think folks forget how dire Sprint's straits were at the time, and this specific merger truly w…
For example, Albertsons is blatantly doing this so Kroger can acquire them.
The only bright side to the merger was that T-Mobile inherited Sprint's permanent contract with Mobile Citizen, and now nonprofits can get extremely low prices on uncapped, unthrottled 5G hotspots from T-Mobile, something you can't get as a normal consumer. Before the merger, you were stuck with Sprint's not-so-great network, but after the merger you end up with all of T-Mobile's coverage and speeds exceeding 1gbps i…
Thinking redundancy for current AT&T fiber hookup for the admin staff and voip gateway.
Post merger I went from a $25/month t-mobile plan to a $15/month t-mobile plan. Not entirely apples to apples, but close. My spouse went from $30/month to $25/month on Verizon for more data. And there's lots of options at https://prepaidcompare.net/
I will say, I'm not terribly fond of mergers on principle. However, based on my insight as a former customer and shareholder of the company, Sprint's goose was most definitely cooked to a crisp. If this merger had not happened, I could have seen Sprint file for bankruptcy, with Verizon and AT&T picking the carcass clean. I think folks forget how dire Sprint's straits were at the time, and this specific merger truly w…
Were they legitimately in financial straights? or was it the thing where they want to force regulators to allow the deal by blowing up their own company? For example, Albertsons is blatantly doing this so Kroger can acquire them.
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Prepaid sounds great unless you ever want roaming, it’s either straight up not possible or priced in a way that makes it impractical.
I'm looking to switch to Visible here soon after being on Google Fi for many years. Just looks like a cheaper rebranded Verizon to me, and has all the features I would need for a cheap price. https://www.visible.com/
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Were they legitimately in financial straights? or was it the thing where they want to force regulators to allow the deal by blowing up their own company? For example, Albertsons is blatantly doing this so Kroger can acquire them.
Is that why they are absurdly expensive compared to all of their competitors?
https://www.opb.org/article/2022/11/12/oregon-ag-files-court...