t-mobile recently announced their new four
for 25 unlimited data plan promotion in this video i'm covering everything
you need to know about this deal and honestly why it's so great let's get
into it first what is this deal t-mobile is
offering their t-mobile essentials plan which is
their 60 dollar unlimited data plan for just 25
per line when you activate four voice lines
on the t-mobile network this is actually a great deal because before
you were paying 30 dollars per line with four lines on t-mobile essentials
and what's especially great about this is this deal is available to
current t-mobile subscribers so if you're currently signed up for t-mobile
essentials and you have four lines i suggest you
stop watching this video right now and contact t-mobile and
switch to this deal you're going to be saving
yourself 20 dollars per month or 240 dollars per year
for the exact same plan the only thing you need to know is your current device
promotion if you happen to have some sort of smartphone deal or leasing
agreement that may not carry over to the new plan
sometimes you can't combine deals if you're in a situation like that
i suggest you contact t-mobile for more details and clarification
to make sure you are eligible for this promotion but like i said
it is available for new customers and existing team mobile customers
if you're a new customer you may be wondering alright what does t-mobile
essentials include let's cover that right now so t-mobile
essentials is an unlimited data plan from t-mobile
including unlimited data that is de-prioritized it also has unlimited
hotspot data at 3g speeds t-mobile says those are
around 600 kilobits per second you're also
looking at standard definition 480p video streaming 200 megabytes of
domestic roaming data and unlimited talk text and 2g data in
mexico and canada and those 2g data speeds will be
at 128 kilobits per second there are international add-ons available for this
plan including international calling at 25
cents per minute and an international data pass for 15
per month per line for the lines you choose to enable it on
overall t-mobile essentials is a fantastic option
if you're looking for unlimited data on the t-mobile network
many of the plans i talk about in my videos such as
ultra mobile's 39 unlimited plan and us mobile's 40
unlimited plan come with data limits that means these plans are not true
unlimited data plans but rather have a set amount of high
speed data before your speeds are slowed to 2g data
this is typical with the agreements carriers make with t-mobile
but when you're getting a plan from t-mobile directly that's when t-mobile
is able to offer true unlimited data your data speeds are deprioritized this
is typical with prepaid plans as well so your speeds may slow down when the
network is busy honestly though this is a great value
for a lot of people and it gets even better
because you can add a line to this plan for just
twenty dollars a line so if you're looking at a four to six person plan
these are gonna be the prices you're looking at twenty five dollars for four
people twenty four dollars a person for five
people and around twenty three dollars and thirty three cents per person for
six people please note all of these prices include t-mobile's
five dollar auto pay discount so without the
discount you're looking at thirty dollars a line for four lines
and adding two additional lines at
twenty-five dollars per line that said when i chatted with a t-mobile
representative inquiring about the promotion i was told
you could get the autopay discount applied to your first bill if you opt
into autopay i would chat with a t-mobile
representative to confirm that is the case when you are signing up
but this could be a great way to take advantage
of a great deal right from the start on your first
bill otherwise for me my auto pay discounts have typically kicked in
on my second month of service when i've been testing out different plans and
carriers from the major providers verizon at t
sprint and t-mobile okay next taking a look at
how t-mobile essentials compares to the other family plans
available from t-mobile and you're looking at 35 a month for
magenta and dollars a month per person
for magenta plus as you can see the prices go up
a lot for magenta and magenta plus but those plans do have taxes
and fees included with them with t-mobile essentials
taxes and fees will be extra adding probably around
four to six percent to the total cost of your plan
this will vary by your state the other key differences
is that magenta and magenta plus include three gigs
and 20 gigs of full speed lte hotspot data and they also include
international calling and international data roaming you do
not need the 15 per month per line add-on
to get international data with magenta and magenta plus
if you're someone who needs high-speed hotspot data and international data
i highly suggest you consider going with magenta or
magenta plus for a plan better suited for your needs
if you just need unlimited data on the t-mobile network
then honestly i think t-mobile essentials is
fine especially considering it's only 25 dollars per month per line considering
35 to 43 dollars per month per line which can
save you a huge amount of money in the long run
now the biggest issue with this promotion
was honestly how it was presented we had ceo
mike cervante going up in probably one of the lowest quality shooting
environments talking about the deal how it was one of
the best deals in wireless for a post-paid plan
and that's somewhat true let me explain so in terms of post paid yes t-mobile
essentials is technically a post-paid plan meaning
you the subscriber can pay for your service after you've
already used one month of service you can basically
pay your bill whenever you want as opposed to prepaid plans where you
need to pay up front that said if you look here at
this comparison t-mobile essentials includes
deprioritized data in fact on the t-mobile website it says
during congestion customers using greater than 50 gigs of
data per month and essentials customers may notice
lower speeds than other customers due to data
prioritization this means that with magenta
and magenta plus you're getting 50 gigs of
post paid priority data whereas with essentials
even though it's a post-paid plan you're still getting
prepaid data priority the other issue with
mike's promotional video is that it's not
actually that much of a revolution in terms of the
post-paid wireless world best mvno actually has a great article on this
and joe brings up points that sprint was offering
a fantastic deal where customers could actually get
five lines of unlimited data for just a hundred dollars a month
and some even better deals that were previously available in 2018
so for t-mobile to come out and say these are the best deals in the
post-paid consumer world sure maybe today at this moment for a
plan that is post paid it's a pretty good deal
but in the past there have been other extremely competitive deals available
particularly from sprint and even today we still have very competitive plans you
can get 25 for unlimited data from visible
cricket and well metro is actually 30 bucks
but my point remains for visible 25 a month gets you unlimited data on the
verizon network with unlimited hotspot data at 5
megabits per second way faster than t-mobile's 600 kilobit
per second hotspot speeds qriket also has a four-line unlimited
plan for 25 dollars per line offering
unlimited data on the at t network now the hotspot isn't
supported here and data speeds are capped at eight megabits per second
but all taxes and fees are included in fact with both cricket and metro
making them very compelling offers to consider as
alternatives to the t-mobile essentials plan
and lastly i just wanted to throw in metro by t-mobile here
their plan is thirty dollars a month but it does include all taxes and fees
for four lines and you're getting 15 gigs
of high-speed hotspot data so once you add on taxes and fees to t-mobile
essentials maybe you're looking at 27 per line
for just three dollars extra you can get 15 gigs of high-speed hotspot data
when you go with a plan from metro so that is the t-mobile deal again it's
honestly a really great option and i will have
links down in the video description to all of the plans i talked about in
this video however i don't think it's as good or as
exclusive as t-mobile is hyping up to be in their
marketing and promotional materials the other point they heavily emphasized
was t-mobile essentials included 5g access but all plans that use the
t-mobile network actually do get access to t-mobile's 5g
network so that's not really anything special at
all either way that's going to be it for this video
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