T-Mobile has people dumbfounded ever since it adopted a new ‘uncarrier’ strategy of putting smartphones up for sale devoid of service contracts; instead it plans to club them with its Value plans. What cropped up as a rumor grew up to be a full-fledged offer by the service provider, bringing unlimited high-speed data to customers on a month-to-month payment basis.
Every month that a user shells out $50, T-Mobile proffers up to 500MB of data, owing to its Value plans. This scheme takes care of every expense customers might incur with respect to their cellular needs. Together with unlimited talk time, including calls made to other networks as well as landline, it provides text messages with no upper limit. Another prominent inclusion in this voucher is that every scheme renders a Wi-Fi tethering ability.
The downside of this news, brought to our notice by Android Police, however is that every time customers hit the data consumption boundary, they will be subjected to 2G speeds. In order to avoid an event like this, they could opt to increase the usage. Each tier would demand an extra $10 as compared to the older one. For instance, people will have to pay up $60 per month for a surplus of 2GB data, $70 for 4GB and so on.
The carrier has also offered a solution for users who detest being bound by such data caps, irrespective of any condition. By adding $20 to the basic plan amount, owners might as well subscribe for an unlimited package. This plan just like the one mentioned above comes with a catch. While people could look forward to enjoying unlimited downloading and streaming over the Internet, they will not benefit from the mobile hotspot capability. Nevertheless a plan packing tethering support can be bought separately for $10.
Advantages of the Value plans by T-Mobile can be enjoyed even without the need to purchase a device. Anyone with an unlocked smartphone lying around idle in their house can walk right up to one of the carrier-owned stores and reap the benefits of the plan. With buzz around the corner stating that the network operator is in the midst of a merger with MetroPCS and is gearing up to set up its own 4G LTE network, a lot appears to brewing for the carrier.