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T-Mobile Just Ripped 8 Million Customers Off Their Grandfathered Plans – and Raised Their Bills (www.gadgetreview.com)
submitted 2 months ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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“T‑Mobile will never change the price you pay for your T‑Mobile ONE plan.” That was the promise. The Un-contract. The whole reason millions of customers picked the magenta team over Verizon and AT&T in the first place. Now T-Mobile is retiring legacy 3G and 4G-era plans — Magenta, ONE, Simple Choice — and automatically moving customers onto “modern” 5G plans at higher monthly costs. Billing changes hit mid-July for the current wave. The company that swore it would never surprise you with a rate hike just sent the notification.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

In the aughts, I had accumulated about ~~$30~~ $30K in debt, but managed it through consolidation programs, and got it down to about 3%.

Then the subprime mortgage crisis happened, and my creditors said sorry, but we're fucking you over no matter what the contract says. Your interest rate is 12% and feel lucky we don't raise it again.

Apparently companies will do that. I didn't pay them at all and just waited seven years to wait out statute of limitations.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

had accumulated about $30 in debt

Dude, how did you make it through?

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Ah, I see the confusion and misplaced a decimal point. Corrected.

[–] datavoid@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Parents suck!

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I had a fixed rate loan through BoA to do similar (handle some debt) and they tried that shit with a bunch of us. Everyone made a stink and wouldn’t stop emailing the CEO until he said they’d honor the original agreement.