WE WON BOYS! Thank you TechLinked and community... T-Mobile will NOT be increasing prices for grandfathered plans!

[Invincible Sugar]

Summary

T-Mobile was going to auto-upgrade users on older cheaper plans to newer more expensive plans, as a way to hike prices up for customers without technically raising plan prices. An opt-out was offered but not advertised, and users on social media made a lot of noise about this not being cool, including a post on these LTT forums. The topic was covered by TechLinked and other outlets, and T-Mobile announced today they will not go through with this BS.

 

Quotes

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During the Q3 2023 Earnings Call, T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert confirmed that the initial planned migrations will no longer be happening (and never actually began), and also claiming the backlash was due to the “erroneous context” surrounding the leaked documents.

 

My thoughts

T-Mobile knew from the start this was a BS move. Customers have always had the option to upgrade to newer, more expensive plans if they wanted to. T-Mobile has traditionally respected grandfathered plans, it's been part of how they've differentiated themselves from the competition as being pro-consumer. Lately T-Mobile has pulled a lot of BS, with posts complaining about their "re-carrier" moves all over Reddit... it's nice to see they can still be shamed into doing the right thing at least this once though.

 

Sources

https://tmo.report/2023/10/t-mobile-has-cancelled-the-forced-plan-migrations-at-least-for-now/

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/t-mobile-walks-back-forced-plan-migration-wont-make-people-switch-plans-after-all/

https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/t-mobile-backtracks-price-migrations-during-q3-earnings

[TetraSky]

Erroneous context my ass. They are just trying to pour some water on the dumpster fire that was this god awful decision.
You can bet they WILL retry this at some other, in a more stealthily way, no advance warning.

[PhantomJaguarr]

We won for now*. 

[doubleagent214]

Small victory. The major one would be getting them to stop charging a fee for you paying your bill without a wire transfer.

[Invincible Sugar]

On 10/25/2023 at 5:16 PM, TetraSky said:

Erroneous context my ass. They are just trying to pour some water on the dumpster fire that was this god awful decision.
You can bet they WILL retry this at some other, in a more stealthily way, no advance warning.

I agree, it's all BS and we need to be on the lookout now for similar BS in the future!

 

On 10/25/2023 at 5:51 PM, PhantomJaguarr said:

We won for now*. 

Yes :c

 

On 10/26/2023 at 8:53 AM, doubleagent214 said:

Small victory. The major one would be getting them to stop charging a fee for you paying your bill without a wire transfer.

Small but notable. If we can do this, maybe we can fight like this the next time too, and keep them in line. Maybe. It's worth trying!

[da na]

We won boys? That's an interesting prize