“I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock
“I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock
We obtained 900 complaints the FCC received about T-Mobile’s infamous price hike.
Aint it grand how contract in the US is only enforced against the customer?
Do you remember that time when company got too many arbitration claims and was able to get a court to allow it to get out from that contract?
"Because it was not fair to them and this is not the system is intended to work"
US contract law for me but not for thee...
On one hand, I kinda get it. Corporations do things, and if they get killed over small oversights there will be very real effects for many people
On the other hand, holy fuck, look around. Everything is going to shit, the planet is literally dying and we're not even living it up anymore
I mean, the justice system is kangaroo court. Two overpaid people stand in a room and argue technicalities, not right vs wrong. It's a complete farce designed to fatten people's wallets.
Corporations getting killed for mismanagement isn’t a problem. That’s make believe. Another Corp will pick the bones of the first one. The first should die. Corporations were always meant to last only a couple decades by design.
In the US companies are people. If a company is a person, then their actions should be judged as such. Oh noes, we saved 2 million dollars by not building a new retaining wall around the coke processing plant, and the old one let it leak into the river and affect drinking water. We're sorry. Oh a fine and waivers of legal fees for $500 per person affected? 600k total? We still win! How about conviction for negligence, and CEOs go to prison for 3rd degree manslaughter? (Also fuck Freedom Industries).
That is not a "small" oversight. It's very intentional, deliberate, and fraudulent.
"Sir, the customers are complaining about charging more money even though they had a pricelock for life deal".
"Yeah? And? Fuck em!"
I mean.....I kid, but that's the CEOs legit stance on the issue.
I remember seeing this commercial. I knew back then that it was horseshit.
"This is what happens when the government lets companies swallow the completion (the latest being Sprint). We have antitrust laws in the country that are being ignored and ultimately the consumer loses," a New York resident told the FCC.
YES. The government needs to stop rubber-stamping these enormous mergers.
This is felony level bait-and-switch going on, here. This really should have criminal charges attached to the perpetrators.
I had a Google GSuite account from back when they advertised it as a free for life solution for families who wanted to use their own domain. They stopped offering this a long time ago, but kept us around. A few years ago, they tried to end it, but walked that back after facing resistance. We were among the earliest adopters and many of us shilled pretty hard for gmail over the years. Not only would they have gone back on their word, but my app and media purchases would be tied to a crippled no-email account (identity only) because they didn't have a migration path to normal gmail. That means multiple logins. Also, the gsuite inbox doesn't have the inline ads or anything while the regular one does. I've been working to move away from google because I imagine they'll try to end this again later, but also just because we understand better who google really is.
The site the greedy little pigboy runs was instrumental to the resistance but since it's enshittified, we may not be able to resist again. Its fine to say something is for a lifetime, but you have to honor that or you've been dishonest and no one can trusts thing you say.
The only reason I still have google around is android. When we finally get a linux daily driver phone that meets my minimum needs, I'm migrating the remainder of my stuff. I'll happily give up some functionality to do it. I just hope they can keep their free for life promise until then.
I mean I only when from an iphone fanboy to a google pixel to deGoogle. I'm on graphene and don't have a google account. Been using Grayjay for yt and imported my subscriptions from there. Mail I'm using proton. I hope in the future, I can completely degoogle and not use youtube at all. A true alternative like peertube, but not too many people are on that.
I agree about peertube. I'm lucky that my niche has some creators with a peertube instance at urbanists.video (like c/fuckcars) for me to watch. I check that before youtube now and it cuts my YouTube usage by 5-15%.
I know we're off topic, but do you have call recording on Graphene? Also, how does the adblocker work. I find most adblockers use the VPN to create a loopback to listen on. I use a VPN frequently, so that interface isn't available and I block ads via hostfile.
I can only vouch for my setup; many variations are available.
- Nextcloud - files, photo autoupload, contacts, calendar
- Postfix and dovecot (and a bunch of friends) - email
- Pixelfed - private instagram. Can federate, but I've never enabled that.
- Opnsense - firewall, vpn, adblocking via unbound. Wireguard is my choice, but any would do. I get all my lan stuff available everywhere.
- Jellyfin - media library. It's kinda sucky, though, thinking of going back to plex, unfortunately.
- Lemmy - well. You know what it is :)
- Graphene on a pixel
Hit me up if you ever decide to go self hosting route and need a hand with a thing or two!
I also used GSuite for a long time. Its betrayal of its users is a big part of why I switched to Proton. Much better UX.
T mobile going downhill since merging with sprint and losing Legere.
Who could have predicted less competition resulting in worse service other than everyone
Caught me completely by obvious
Yeah, but a couple dozen sociopaths at the top got significantly richer, so fuck this entire portion of the population. Clearly the right people won.
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"Not for long," T-mobile said as it dispatched hit squads to quash the lawsuit rebellion.
Must be owned by the cousins of Boeing.
Are Pinkertons back on the menu?
This time they will suppress the slaves in both permutations as a wagie and as a consoomer.
One of the companies making GPS navigators for cars used to advertise lifetime map updates. Small print: lifetime of the device, two years after release
I bought my dad's 2014 MKZ off him 4 years ago. They stopped producing GPS updates several years before I bought it off him. According to the device, there are times it thinks I'm driving through farmland when I'm at a Target parking lot.
Careful, Users. TMobile is large enough to go the Boeing route, and start making people disappear. Then, Users, your Lifetime Price Lock will be literally void.
Although, it would also be void if tmo died--err... disappeared...
or, alternatively, their lifetime offer has truly been honoured.
Hahahaha!! That's really good! Hahahahahah!!!
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Legally, yes. In practical terms, spending $1000 to fight a lawsuit and win $50 isn’t realistic, and I’d be willing to bet T-Mobile forces arbitration anyway
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Yep, I quit T-Mobile and switched to Mint last month for this exact reason. My price is now 1/4 what I was paying before, and everything else is exactly the same. Should’ve done this years ago.
I was on Mint but had super unreliable SMS service, switched to Visible which is under Verizon and have had 0 problems.
But then Verizon would get some of that money. The pile of shit company that programmed a physical key on your phone next to the scroll wheel to bill you 1.99 a month for the privilege of using 0.00001 MB of data if you accidentally clicked it during the month and it opened their shit “get it now” store. Literally the company that pushed for hostile design back in the 2000s. Fuck them. Fuck Bank of America , Wells Fargo and Comcast.
Only thing you can rely on staying the same anymore is Costco hotdogs.
There's also there's also the perpetual feeling of "what dumbfuck in the government though this up". That never leaves us
Can't rely on that either. The CEO who threatened to kill over trying to change the hotdog price has been gone for a while now.
Any guarantee of a price lock with the stipulation of "You can just NOT use us if we ever decide to fuck you over!" - should come with HEAVY penalties.
Boost Mobile is advertising the same thing right now. Who actually believes these ads?
Lifetime of the service not of the human paying for it. 😊
But T-Mobile is still offering the service, so it is not the lifetime of that either.
The service whose lifetime is over is the "lifetime price lock".
i keep hearing about this price hike but my bill hasn't changed since 2008.
I still have the T-Mobile G1 phone plan.
I'd just keep my head down if I were you
I still have the T-Mobile G1 phone plan.
Man that was a great phone.
My plan isn't quite that old, but it's getting up there. They recently increased my price by a few dollars per line. Then they tried to get me to move to a current plan, which turned out to be 20% higher price for less return. I had to try not to burst out laughing at the poor guy's face.
I've been with TMo for more than 20 years--they're the only carrier I've ever used--but if my price goes up again I'm jumping ship.
Loved my HTC Dream (G1)
It got slow after a year, then I put a custom ROM on it and it was a brand new phone.
Yeah I kept a tmo plan for a stupid amount of time. Eventually MVNO plans were just cheaper, so i switched. Why does anyone want to stay on some legacy plan anyway? Were any of them any good? This is what I would get for very low usage on tmobile now:
good luck getting that , users
"I got a text message stating my monthly rate will increase $5 per line, that is [a] $50 increase because I have 10 lines."
The fuck do you have 10 cell phones for?
Even if it's you + spouse + 8 kids, kids below a certain age don't need a phone and kids over a certain age should pay for their own damn phone.
#get off my lawn.