T-Mobile Offering Cheap Prepaid Service Through Walmart
T-Mobile Offering Cheap Prepaid Service Through Walmart
Posted 10/03/2011 at 2:32pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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As the big four US carriers continue to raise prices and cap data, an increasingly competitive pre-paid market is being created. Pre-paid services like Boost and Virgin Mobile are starting to pull some more budget-minded consumers away, but T-Mobile is looking to staunch the bleeding with its new month-to-month 4G plan sold through Walmart.
The headlining pitch here is a $30 plan that comes with unlimited text and data (5GB before throttling), as well as 100 minutes of voice. In this day and age, who really needs more than a few minutes anyway? Users should be warned, though. It’s a whopping $0.10 per minute after the 100 minute limit is reached.
T-Mobile hasn’t worked out which phones will be sold with the service, but we anticipate it will mostly be mid-range devices sold at full price. Pre-paid service lacks roaming and call-forwarding, but the price is right. Would yo consider switching to this kind of account?
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essjay22
October 03, 2011 at 7:26pm
More than just consider it, I bought an Optimus V, signed up for Virgin's 25$/mo unlimited txt/data 300 minutes and I am golden ! Yes canucks get screwed land and air lines no doubt aboot it. What ever happened to Fido?
TechLarry
October 04, 2011 at 7:36am
Same one I got. Perfect plan for those that want a phone for emergencies.
smashingpumpin
October 03, 2011 at 8:54pm
I wish I took the chance while it was still $25 (it went up to $35, U.S. anyways). Does anyone in here (in the U.S.) know if theres a data cap or throttling on Virgins $35 plan? Unlimited text and data (witrh no data cap/throttling) is all I care about on a prepaid. Thanks in advance whoever answers.
themohawkadmin
October 04, 2011 at 7:12am
Virgin Mobile does not throttle your data, or cap you in any way. That may change in the future if Sprint decides to inforce a data cap or throttle system, but at least for now both are truely unlimited.
Tonyb1980
October 03, 2011 at 5:28pm
I have to laugh a little when us Canadian readers see stuff like this. In Canada overages are just a little bit worse than a dime a minute... assuming you can manage to stay within the 500mb + 200 anytime minutes with Bell Canada whose overages are charged at $0.45 per minute or if you are unlucky enough to exceed their data cap its a NICKEL a MEG... (for those of you who dont love math.. thats $50 per gig of overages) This is just a basic example of how bad we get ripped off up here. I used to work for T-Mobile and DROOL over their plans ! a 3 gb data plan just to let you know starts at $100 with Bell.ca with NO option for throttling and in most cases no option to monitor your own usage (like the #MIN# send that T-mobile uses to check minutes)
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