Watching the cellular industry duke it out for phones, data plans and general plans is sort of fun. The changes that one company makes often trickles over to another in some fashion that generally is better for the consumer. Sometimes it is all in the wording and the marketing of a new feature of plan, but sometimes these guys do make a change that is pretty beneficial. T-Mobile has announced a new add-on feature today that should sit nicely with Simple Start plan users.
Starting September 3rd Simple Starter plan subscribers will be able to up their 4G LTE plan from 500MBs to 2GBs for just $5 more a month. That puts the monthly total, prior to taxes and all that jazz, at just $45 a month.
“People who use loads of data use T-Mobile,†said John Legere, president and CEO of T-Mobile. “And it’s no wonder. The old guard telecoms punish people for using more data on their networks with crazy overage charges and fees. Get Verizon’s $50 plan and use just one gig more data, and the price jumps to $65. It’s crazy. At T-Mobile, we designed our network data-strong so our customers could use the hell out of it. And that’s just what they’re doing.â€Â
That is still $5 less a month than the standard Simple Choice plan that offers the same unlimited talk and text with only 1GB of LTE data. The key difference is that on the Simple Starter your data is suspended after you reach the cap where as the Simple Choice just slows you down.
