T-Mobile is present at CES this year, ready to unveil its next Uncarrier move. We still don’t know exactly what to expect, but we think it’s possible that a few clues were provided in the last promo video the company posted.
Given this is T-Mobile, the video streams are rather eccentric, with the company posting multiple streams via Periscope, as well as on Facebook. If you follow Legere on Periscope, you’ll be treated to a 360-degree video.
Show kicks off at 11AM Pacific. Any last minute predictions?
Un-carrier NEXT LIVE from CES 2017
Un-carrier NEXT LIVE from CES 2017
Posted by T-Mobile on Thursday, January 5, 2017
I used 65 GB my last cycle on verizon (old school unlimited plan) and I was told T-Mobile would throttle me…
i don’t see why everyone is complaining. it all depends on your needs. Right now i have my solo T-Mobile simple choice unlimited and im paying 90/mo after taxes and crap. my wife is on a 6Gb Verizon share with 2 tablet lines that aren’t even used. plus her device payment, plus her international calling charges and stuff, my Verizon bill is basically 130-140 a month. Switching her line to T-Mobile, adding the international calling, still would end up saving us almost 80/mo. and btw that 130-140 on Verizon is with a 12% discount through my old job which is about to expire.
Again for some it works, for others it doesn’t. For me this works and will work pefectly fine for me. Keep doing you T-Mobile
I’m curious what “special incentive” they have planned for the older Simple promo plans to try and get us switched to T-Mobile One. I have 4 lines unlimited for $100 + taxes currently and can’t really see them being much more aggressive to get me on T-Mobile One.
You are best to keep your 4 for 100 deal. I think this new deal will save me money as a T-mobile one user already. I think I will get a break! I am excited to get the kick backs and loss off fees and taxes.
I’m fairly certain I will stay with my current plan as well but he made mention in the presentation that they were going to have special incentives available to Simple Choice users to get us to switch so it piqued my curiosity as to what they’ll offer us “legacy” plan holders. They said they wanted to reward their earliest adopters.
Charge me $40 per line for TWO!!!! LINES!!!!, not 4, and we’ll have a deal. I’ll eat some of this crap up, untill then, I’ll stick to my “pre-T-mobile One” promo until it dies…
No talk about coverage or expansion? Dafuq..
Aren’t they aways expanding?
Yup, more and more but people still complain to complain. Move to a city, scrubs.
I wasn’t complaining and I have great coverage with them in the suburbs in my state. But when I travel a few hours away to family that live just 10 mins from the interstate, I have next to nothing where Verizon and AT&T completely cover that area.
And the problem is actual cell coverage… not LTE or high speed data, but being able to actually make a call or text. That’s where T-Mobile still fails in so many areas outside of cities, and Verizon/AT&T succeed.
Yes, definitely this too. My family has exponentially more dropped and missed calls now on T-Mobile than we ever did on Verizon. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen T-Mobile address this specifically and would appreciate if they had a little more transparency with their network plans.
You don’t even need that. I live 1 county over from amish paradise in PA. I drive through there all the time, full reception. zero issues.
Supposedly, but shouldn’t they still expound on that a bit at a big event like this just so we know their hard goals for the year?
I don’t think there’s much they can say about it. They can just show a coverage map like always. They did hit on the fact that when they started out, they sucked. They actually admitted that. But they say they are always growing and now one of the top carriers.
Considering they’re still considerably behind Verizon and AT&T in coverage, they can say plenty about it. They can talk about band 12 expansion. They can say that they’re still expanding much more in the mid-west where they’re weakest. They can talk about upcoming network upgrades to make their existing LTE faster. The same stuff Verizon and AT&T are constantly bragging about as well.
Well I think with something like that, it’s all talk with any carrier because I don’t know how they are supposed to prove anything on stage. The only proof they can give is in their users real life experience. And I don’t know how exactly they pull that.
I’m not asking for proof of anything. It’s not all talk; Verizon and AT&T have made good on all of their network claims that I’ve seen. T-Mo seems to be avoiding the subject at these events.
They talked about all of that though. 270M POPs are covered by 700Mhz now.
The main limitation on 700Mhz now is US Cellular. They own the band in the remaining markets T-Mobile can’t enter. Short of offering more money or buying the company they won’t be getting it. But the 600Mhz auction should be able to solve low band access in these areas.
They somehow missed my whole state then.
Which is great, but still doesn’t really help with overall coverage. If all they’re doing is counting the most populous areas, they still can’t compete with Verizon/AT&T in actual coverage. I wish carriers would advertise square miles of coverage instead of people covered.
This. They may “cover 270M” people but when taking short roadtrips (New England- NYC – DC) my TMO friends always lose coverage as soon as leaving a major metro area. Good luck streaming anything on your unlimited plan then.
They did announce their hard goal. 320M POPs by end of year.
I must have missed that at the beginning then and he didn’t mention it again at the overview at the end. But I would like to see specifics like where they’re expanding so I know I’ll be affected by that number in my state.
How about flat-rate pricing? Like oh, it’s only 60, 80, 100, 120 flat? Instead of the labyrinth of taxes and fees that jumble about from month to month. THAT would be truly impressive.
So don’t pay taxes?
MVNOs pay taxes and their prices are fairly flat. There simply has to be an equation that brings it all to a flat price.
Jesus… Uncarrier Next is “KickBack” where you get money back if you use 2GB or less, which is practically NO ONE in this age. Isn’t that why they rolled out TmobileOne to begin with? “You deserve unlimited!!!” So let me get this straight: Sign up for TMobileOne so you have access to all the data you want, but if you use less than 2GB, we give you money!! So don’t use the unlimited like we originally told you, OK?
Taxes/fees included in a nice bonus, but again, only if you sign up for TmobileOne.
Oh yeah and also, TMobileOne is now all they are selling, which is what they told us back in September, so nothing new there.
“Uncarrier” events are getting worse and worse. They need to stop hyping it up – it’s embarrassing.
My T-Mobile line barely uses data, since music is zero rated. That kickback will workout for me 🙂 Might even port my AT&T line over finally.
my wife uses about 2GB or less.
With Binge On and Music Freedom, I could see a scenario of you not using 2GB in a month.
Damn, these guys still talking and no announcement yet. I will read the update at 10p tonight if this crap is over by then. smh
They have announced two things.
T-Mo is doing the Fi method for data.
A discount for lines that use less than 2GB of data on ONE.
Which is mostly. Plex Sync, 256GB storage for music and what not. Emails, Facebook, safari use hardly any data
Good God John… We know you’re the “cool” carrier. Get to the announcement already.
tmobile one taxes and fees included – 4 lines 40$ each
Lyft is now BingeOn? lol