you can go to a t-mobile store, if you just want the monthly plan, there is no credit check, but you do have to have photo id to activate. lance is correct, there is no activation fee, you just pay for the phone, accessories and first months service. there is a 4.99 monthly fee that t-mobile will waive if you agree to set up ez-pay and have your montly payments taken directly out of a credit card or bank account. if you have an old t-mobile phone or have a friend that has one they'll let you have, you don't even need to purchase a phone. this has been happening a lot at our store. keep in mind that if it is an older phone or a phone that is unlocked to run on the t-mobile network but not made for t-mobile, some of the features (like myFaves)...
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m2m, nights,weekends, myfaves will all still be available.. very similar to kid connect but when you need more minutes, it is 20 cents a minute, but you need to start a flex pay account, which is purchased a $10, $25, $50, or $100 prepaid cards.

as far as i know... if you are eligible for "post paid" then you are pretty much at the highest credit level. flex pay ios more for "less than perfect credit" customers. or if you didn't want a contract... no information is availible for conversion yet.

not for another 45 days atleast.. they put a 60 day suspension on any convertions to or from flexpay.

Here is the deal with Flexpay.

If you are willing to do a credit check then tmobile can check your credit. If you have good credit and you would qualify for their regular plans at that time you have the OPTION to choose a flex pay account. It would be a contract just like the other plan but these are the things that are different:

The price for the phone. Won't be like 200.00 unless you are getting a really fancy phone.

The way the bill works. When the minutes are used for the month the unlimited features like myfaves, night and weekend and mobile to mobile can still be used. This means that she will NEVER cause overage charges on the bill.

When you pay for the bill. At the time of purchase you will pay for the phone AND th...
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Prepaid numbers can't go to flexpay, but you can use any messaging plan, text plan, etc.... that T-Mobile has to offer. I have an internet plan on one line and my fiancee's line has a Sidekick plan, and we're both on flexpay.

that is correct. t-mobile's official policy is that you can't port over a t-mobile prepaid number to flex, you have to have a new number issued. of course, you can use the phone you currently have if you don't want to pay for a new phone, and you can port in any number from a different company that you could on the regular plans. you can have a blackberry plan, whether stand alone or as a bis or bes add on. right now at least, there just a few features that you can't have: hotspot @ home unlimited feature, you can get a hotspot phone and router for the coverage, but not the add on, and strangely enough, callertunes. 🙄

yensid71 said:
That is correct. T-MKobile's official policy is that you can't port over a T-Mobile prepaid number to flexpay, you have to have a new number issued. Of course, you can use the phone you currently have if you don't want to pay for a new phone, and you can port in any number from a different company that you could on the regular plans. You can have a Blackberry plan, whether stand alone or as a bis or bes add on. Right now at least, there just a few features that you can't have: Hotspot @ Home unlimited feature; you can get a hotspot phone and router for the coverage, but not the add on; and strangely enough, callertunes. 🙄

That's kinda gay. I'd love to have a callertune.

they say that they are planning to add it in the "future"

Thanks for all the info. A T-mobile rep told me porting from To Go prepaid might be possible in 2 months time, does anyone know anything about that?