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T-mobile Wireless - Looking After The Consumer
By Martin Smith, Sat Dec 10th
T-Mobile Wireless plans offer some of the lowest per minute cellphone rates in the industry. However T- Mobile has some problemswith static on calls and has a higher turnover rate (38%) thanmost other similar cell phone companies. T-Mobile has plans thatcater to casual users, frequent users and families. They arecurrently offering free accessories and free shipping in aneffort to demonstrate that this company is worthy ofconsideration as a potential provider of your cell phone service. Cell phone plans from T-Mobile start as low as $30.00 for abasic plan that includes 300 peak minutes and unlimited off peakor nighttime minutes. However the charge for minutes exceedingthe plan limit is $.40 per minute. This can really add upquickly. T-Mobile offers a Get More 300 Plan which offers 3000total peak and off peak minutes with an over limit charge of 35cents a minute. Long distance calls are 20 cents a minute. Youneed to make sure you know your coverage area because roamingcalls are 49 cents a minute. Family Time Plan from T-mobile includes two lines with theopportunity to add additional lines for 10 a month each. Forunder $100.00 a month family members can share 800 peak minutesand unlimited off peak minutes. Extra minutes will cost you 35cents per minute and roaming is 49 cents per minute.
The Get More Plus Plan for about $100.00 includes 1000 peakminutes and unlimited non-peak minutes. Roaming and longdistance charges are the same as in other T-Mobile plans. For anadditional $5.00 a month T-Mobile¡¯s Get More Plus Plan givesyou an additional 50 minutes for a total of 1050 peak minutes.Over limit charges, roaming and long distance are similar to theGet More Plus Plan. Consumer Reports, in a recent study of cell phone carriers basedon input from 30,000 participants, placed T-Mobile in the mid totop range of overall user satisfaction. However some consumersreported
problems with service, dropped calls, busy circuits,and static on the line. On the plus side, T-Mobile ranked nearthe top of cell phone carriers for economical calling plans. When comparing T-Mobile¡¯s Family Plan at $70.00 a month toNextel¡¯s Get Connected More 600 plan at $56.00 a month,T-Mobile proves to actually be cheaper. Nextel¡¯s fee only hasone line, T-Mobile¡¯s Family Plan has two. Additional lines fromNextel turn out to be $10.00 more than those from T-Mobile. Alsoa family of four averages 1800 minutes of cell phone usage amonth. T-Mobile offers 200 more peak minutes per month. Thesefactors make T-Mobile about $65.00 a month cheaper than theNextel Plan. It turns out that T-Mobile¡¯s plan is even a littleless expensive than the Cingular Family Talk plan at $50.00, dueto the difference in additional lines and the number of peakminutes offered by each. Recently T-Mobile has added the revolutionary ¡°T-Mobile PocketPC¡± phone to its line of cell phones. This phone boastsexcellent PC capabilities, including Microsoft Mobile 2003 OS,full color touch screen, email, Pocket Word, Excel, PIM, anIntel processor, 32 MB RAM, and international phone for use inover 130 countries, and more features are available. T-Mobilealso provides phones made by Nokia, Samsung, and Motorola. Thesephones are available in the standard pocket style phones, aswell as flip phones. You can get a wide variety of featuresincluding camera phones, 25 ring tones, and MIDI and MP3 formatsbuilt in, to name just a few. So when shopping for a cell phonecarrier, you owe it to yourself to at least consider T-Mobile asyour carrier. About the author:Martin Smith is a successful freelance writer providing adviceon purchasing a variety of Cell phone plans and more! Hisnumerous articles are a resource of interesting and relevantinformation. http://www.mobile-n-cell-phone.com |
