T-Mobile switches users to pricier plans
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T-Mobile switches users to pricier plans
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#2Well, at least they give thw opportunity to keep the old one , even with a minor hassle.
As an Italian the big carriers are infamous for unilaterally adding to the bill without any recourse
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#3> "We are not raising the price of any of our plans; we are moving you to a newer plan with more benefits at a different cost."
This shouldn't be legal?
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#4It is amazing to me that the government continues to allow these mergers when time and time again it shows that the consumer end up paying more, not less.
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#5Almost 25 years ago, Fucked Company did such a beautiful job of aggregating countless parallel stories as the dot-com bubble started to burst. It made it so easy to see what was going on in aggregate.
There’s an opportunity for the same sort of thing now, but tracking all the desperate scrambling for revenue as the “we’ll make money after the next 10x users, promise” loses its ground as a business model.
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#6How is this even remotely legal?
I'm genuinely asking. They must have consulted with lawyers and believe it is legal.
But even if their TOS say they reserve the right to change anyone's plan at any time... that seems like one of those clauses that judges always strike down.
This is just flat-out providing a different service than you contracted for. This is like if I order a $200 SSD from Amazon and instead they ship me a $300 SSD and charge me $300, and there are no returns if I don't cancel the order before it's fulfilled.
I don't understand how this is legal. So I genuinely want to know:
1) Is this actually legal? If so, why haven't laws been passed against this kind of corporate bait-and-switch behavior?
2) Is it illegal but just doesn't get enforced? If so, why not?
3) It is illegal, and there will probably be a class action suit, but T-Mobile has calculated they'll still make more profit including a settlement? In which case, why aren't settlements more punitive?
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#7What a great way to convince me to never consider T-Mobile!
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#8RoboForm auto-upgraded my "perpetual" license that I bought over 10 years ago and now it's in "read-only" mode (doesn't allow auto-fill or adding new passwords) unless I pay them a MONTHLY subscription AND it synced all my passwords to their server without my consent.
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#9What a great way to convince me to never consider T-Mobile!
I hope you like the only competitor network.
This partial monopoly is why they can do this. All of those 'virtual operators' are given deprioritized service but somehow still count as competition when their business is evaluated. Yet another instance of regulatory capture at work.