Cult of T-Mob US wants you to INDOCTRINATE your friends and family

[OT] T-mobile building in the night

Don't their neightbours complain of migraine or color blindness ?

http://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/20131223_202236.jpg

So have they...

fixed the massive holes in their coverage yet?

Wouldn't work here.

At least not with my friends. Having heard me bleating about T Mob issues, aren't likely to suddenly accept my recommendation to join T Mob.

This whole "Freinds and family" crap is such a pain in the arse!

I know why the US telcos like it so much - it makes the account much "stickier" but I don't want 4 or 6 or 10 lines, I just want one! I don't want to have to make arrangements with other people when I want to change my phone plan.

T-Mobile does have a reasonably priced (by US standards anyway) "unlimited web & text" plan for $30/month, but you only get 100 minutes of voice with that, and there is no true "pay-as-you-go" service available - you have to refill your account every 30 days, or they'll expire your number. You might as well go bill-pay if you have to pre-pay ever 30 days, whether you're using the phone or not! I'd like to pre-pay for 5GB of data, say, and use it over 6 months or a year, none of this 30-day expiration guff.

I've just sold my soul and renewed my contract with AT&T for another 2 years. I did look into T-Mobile, but the service issues that many were complaining about made me stick with the devil I know.

And as another poster noted, the PAYG plans here are really just contract phones that you can stop at any time. They really are a rip-off, especially the way they debit your balance every day even if you don't use the phone. Oh for British/European style phone deals here!

Better to give your money to legere than any of the parasites running the monopoly.