Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 08:51:09 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 22:51:11 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f6e25cc96e4a95a310682a8ab4a3e1a3"; logging-data="2583368"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ApF13F1hB9bwqclf1aJliDhLO9ZU7TKE=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:5iZ7Jyi5ZL9rEu0L4UVI9vLQNeI= Bytes: 2252 On 2024-06-13 18:22:40 +0000, Alan Browne said: > On 2024-06-13 02:40, Mickey D wrote: >> >> nately, the promise wasn't as simple as T-Mobile claimed it to be in >> that press release. T-Mobile also published an FAQ that answered the >> question, "What happens if you do raise the price of my T-Mobile One >> service?" It explained that the only guarantee is T-Mobile will pay your >> final month's bill if the price goes up and you decide to cancel. > > Marketing: There is no limit. > Legal: Some limitations apply. "Expiring" minutes/texts/data is a ludicrous scheme that should have been banned long ago. Most gift cards now no longer have expiry dates (at least here in New Zealand) because people complained, and yet telecoms companies are still getting away with the same money-grubbing scam. Back in ye olde days of a landline phone, you paid for your calls per minute, yet mobile phones suddenly had this "expiring" scheme that everbody stupidly accepts as "normal". :-\ You should simply pay for what you actually use, like any other utility (electricity, water, petrol, etc.). The man from the petrol station does not come around at the end of the month to siphon out any remaining petrol left in your car's tank without any refund.