T-Mobile Individual Plans with Mobile to Mobile Included
Does anyone know if/when T-Mobile will ever offer their individual plans with FREE mobile to mobile as part of the plan? Cingular and Verizon have mobile to mobile included in their plans but nowhere near the amount of minutes. I am well aware T-Mobile offers the most minutes right now on any plan for the price compared to Verizon or Sprint or Cingular however I was just curious if any reps or insiders know of anything coming down in the near future? That is one area T-Mobile is lagging in I believe. Yes, I am also aware it can be added on for $6.99 a month, but why add it on if it can be free within a plan like the other carriers? Any insights????
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If T-Mobile included free mobile to mobile then they would drastically reduce the number of whenever minutes they offer. Most people realy don't need mobile to mobile. T-Mobile's plans give you so many minutes.
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T-Mobile isn't necessarily lagging in this area. The company realizes that not all customers need T-mobile to T-Mobile, so rather than charge everyone for it with higher rate plans, they make it available to add as a feature.
I talk to customers every day, and one of the things I review with individual customers when they have overage is whether or not adding unlimited T-mobile to T-mobile will help or not. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. So why should someone have to pay for it when they don't need it?
The reason it is included in the cost of the FamilyTime plans is simple. Those customers are obviously going to be calling other T-Mobile customers, since they are sharing an account with them.
I talk to customers every day, and one of the things I review with individual customers when they have overage is whether or not adding unlimited T-mobile to T-mobile will help or not. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. So why should someone have to pay for it when they don't need it?
The reason it is included in the cost of the FamilyTime plans is simple. Those customers are obviously going to be calling other T-Mobile customers, since they are sharing an account with them.
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I understand your position but I do not agree with it. To me, they are lagging in this area. How can a company go wrong by adding the T-mobile to T-mobile feature?? Please dont speak for ALL customers. If that was the case then ALL carriers would take that position and all carries do not. Yes, I realize nother carrier comes close with the minutes that are given but with that aside, their is no other argument. I am well aware why it is in the Family Time plans, that is obvious. I am referring to individual plans. If Cingular and Verizon can do it, so to can T-Mobile.
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I apologize if I gave you the impression that I was trying to speak for ALL customers. I did not at all have the intention of doing that, and didn't mean to leave that impression.
I did mention, however, that not all customers make calls to other T-Mobile subscribers, and therefore do not need the service. T-Mobile, could, of course, raise the price of every individual rate plan by $6.99 and charge everyone for T-Mobile to T-Mobile, but instead they give the customer a choice of whether or not they want to pay for it. I'm not sure how choice can be considered a bad thing.
Cingular and Verizon have a far larger customer base than T-Mobile does. Therefore, with more subscribers, there is more a chance that calls placed to another mob...
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I did mention, however, that not all customers make calls to other T-Mobile subscribers, and therefore do not need the service. T-Mobile, could, of course, raise the price of every individual rate plan by $6.99 and charge everyone for T-Mobile to T-Mobile, but instead they give the customer a choice of whether or not they want to pay for it. I'm not sure how choice can be considered a bad thing.
Cingular and Verizon have a far larger customer base than T-Mobile does. Therefore, with more subscribers, there is more a chance that calls placed to another mob...
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I see your point, but I have to disagree with you that T-Mobile is lagging.
Please understand I am not backing T-Mobile nor am I backing any other company in this discussion. I'm just a student of people and a watcher of the industry. Call it a bad hobby! š¤£
Anyhow - the whole issue of mobile-to-mobile minutes (M2M) is more a publicity angle than anything else. People like thinking that they're going to get something for nothing.
But let's look at it without the emotion of the issue.
We have 4 major providers here in the US and a good amount of secondary providers which themselves add up to probably to the amount of one of the major carriers. I know I could find proper amounts on this but for the basis of this it's not really ...
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Please understand I am not backing T-Mobile nor am I backing any other company in this discussion. I'm just a student of people and a watcher of the industry. Call it a bad hobby! š¤£
Anyhow - the whole issue of mobile-to-mobile minutes (M2M) is more a publicity angle than anything else. People like thinking that they're going to get something for nothing.
But let's look at it without the emotion of the issue.
We have 4 major providers here in the US and a good amount of secondary providers which themselves add up to probably to the amount of one of the major carriers. I know I could find proper amounts on this but for the basis of this it's not really ...
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Thank you for taking the time to try and explain things. Again, I do not agree with your numbers without documented proof. However that is not the issue here. The issue is that I feel they are lagging. It's all about opinion. You went on and on about your personal experience, again that does NOT speak for the T-Mobile subscribers at hand....just you. Not enough to sway me. I am not arguing that they do not give a great amount of minutes compared to the other carries because they surely do. What I am saying is that to put them over the top they should offer mobile to mobile on individual plans - again if the others do, they can as well. Most amount of talk time mintues of any carrier or not. This is what is making them lag in that department ...
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Okay, you wanted number, here are numbers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_mobile_phone_co ... »
My numbers were a bit off in assuming the percentage of T-Mobile customers was as high as it was.
It's all a matter of perception. But one thing is certain. When any company adds more to their product or service there is always a trade-off.
If they don't raise prices or cut back on peak minutes that means they lower their profits. If they do that it means a lower amount of money to expand coverage or bring new technology to the market which customers will want.
In all honesty I can't imagine any company giving up any profits, can you? š
The fact is that T-Mobile has approximately 10.5% of the customers here in...
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My numbers were a bit off in assuming the percentage of T-Mobile customers was as high as it was.
It's all a matter of perception. But one thing is certain. When any company adds more to their product or service there is always a trade-off.
If they don't raise prices or cut back on peak minutes that means they lower their profits. If they do that it means a lower amount of money to expand coverage or bring new technology to the market which customers will want.
In all honesty I can't imagine any company giving up any profits, can you? š
The fact is that T-Mobile has approximately 10.5% of the customers here in...
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T-mobile is not lagging, never has, never will, itās a way of life, with all the min they offer, who can complain, 600 min with unlimited nights and weekend for $ 39.99 thatās 6 cents per min. then take Cingular 450 min with unlimited nights and weekend and mobile to mobile for $ 39.99 thatās .9 cents per min take T-mobile challenge with the mobile to mobile if you need it , you will spend $39.99 + $6.99= $ 46.98. Thatās 8 cent per min. no one can beat T-mobile, if and when ever this great nation ends up with three major carriers you would wish to see rates like this again. Look at the Europe and their rates for cellular service and then complain, you have no idea how good you got it.
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T-mobile is not lagging, never has, never will, itās a way of life, with all the min they offer, who can complain, 600 min with unlimited nights and weekend for $ 39.99 thatās 6 cents per min. then take Cingular 450 min with unlimited nights and weekend and mobile to mobile for $ 39.99 thatās .9 cents per min take T-mobile challenge with the mobile to mobile if you need it , you will spend $39.99 + $6.99= $ 46.98. Thatās 8 cent per min. no one can beat T-mobile, if and when ever this great nation ends up with three major carriers you would wish to see rates like this again. Look at the Europe and their rates for cellular service and then complain, you have no idea how good you got it.
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With all the Whenever minutes they give you... who needs Mobile to Mobile....
Why aren't you asking this question: "If T-Mobile can offer so many Whenever minutes, why can't all the other carriers?"
If you really want Mobile to Mobile for free, then go use another carrier and lose out on the most Whenever minutes....
Why aren't you asking this question: "If T-Mobile can offer so many Whenever minutes, why can't all the other carriers?"
If you really want Mobile to Mobile for free, then go use another carrier and lose out on the most Whenever minutes....
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One thing that you're either forgetting about or not aware of, T-Mobile is the only carrier that I know of that allows free mobile to mobile calling while roaming on another gsm carrier's network. Provided you have unlimited mobile to mobile included of course. All of the carriers, when I hear their advertising on tv and radio, specifically state that unlimited mobile to mobile is only good on their network whether you're talking about Cingular, Verizon, Sprint or Alltel.
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