T-Mobile phone discount for new service?

[nkucz]

I want to open new line on T-Mobile, currently on parents Verizon line, and I was wondering if they have phone discounts like verizon for a new line? Like can I get an HTC One for $100? Or is all they have the monthly phone payments? Thanks

[nkucz]

HELP ME

[Zappy]

They have a phone repayment plan, you pay $99 for the HTC One upfront and then repay the rest of the value of the phone (it's worth $604) over 24 months so it's the plan you choose + $21 a month for the phone repayment for the next 2 years. It works exactly like Verizon, it's just more transparent than Verizon.

[nkucz]

They have a phone repayment plan, you pay $99 for the HTC One upfront and then repay the rest of the value of the phone (it's worth $604) over 24 months so it's the plan you choose + $21 a month for the phone repayment for the next 2 years. It works exactly like Verizon, it's just more transparent than Verizon.

Yea but in Verizon you would only pay $99, you wouldn't have to make monthly payments? Also, what happens if the phone breaks?

[Zappy]

Verizon is no different, they just don't tell you you're making monthly payments that are built into your plan's price.

[nkucz]

Verizon is no different, they just don't tell you you're making monthly payments that are built into your plan's price.

So when you buy a new phone with verizon, they build it into your plan you just don't notice? I'm pretty sure no price is added

[Zappy]

Verizon isn't in the business of losing $500, they just make sure their plans are expensive enough to cover the costs. That's why a decent plan at Verizon will cost over $100

 

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/t-mobile-eliminating-subsidies-good-thing-iphone/

 

also http://www.datamation.com/mobile-wireless/why-the-mobile-phone-subsidy-is-a-myth-1.html

 

 

In the United States, major mobile operators like Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile have long followed a bizarre-yet-sly strategy: they subsidize the up-front cost of mobile devices, hiding the real cost of phones in the fees and charges of service contracts. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know a new Nokia Lumia 920 doesn’t cost $100, or an iPhone 4 $1 – but those are the kinds of price tags carriers hang on new devices to get customers to walk through the door (or click a Buy button). It was a strategy that encouraged consumers to adopt mobile phones (and drop landlines) by lowering up-front costs.

But the costs are still there. Smartphone buyers committing to a new two-year service agreement today are essentially agreeing to pay anywhere from $1,500 to $3,000 over the span of two years. Much of that money is for service – and operators’ profit margins – but some of it is the cost of the device. Consumers who want out of their contracts early wind up paying a termination fee that covers any outstanding costs of the handset – and often a wide assortment of creative “processing fees” mainly intended to make it painful to leave a carrier early.

[nkucz]

Verizon isn't in the business of losing $500, they just make sure their plans are expensive enough to cover the costs. That's why a decent plan at Verizon will cost over $100

 

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/t-mobile-eliminating-subsidies-good-thing-iphone/

 

also http://www.datamation.com/mobile-wireless/why-the-mobile-phone-subsidy-is-a-myth-1.html

Okay I understand now thanks! Anybody here have t-mobile? hows the coverage?