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Subject: Re: There are now "unlock" apps on the app store (in addition to unlock emails)
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"Horace Algier" <horatio@horatio.net> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:06:25 -0400, PAS wrote:
>
>> I doubt you'll find a cheaper plan than the one you are already on.  May
>> I ask how long you've had this plan?
>
> When I left AT&T, they were forcing people with new plans to have data, 
> and
> it was when I was still using a Blackberry so, it was about 5 years ago
> that I left AT&T for T-mobile.
>
> At that time, I had a $60/month family plan of 4 phones with zero data, 
> and
> I was fine with that.
>
> I wish I had kept it, but I travel to Europe so often that I needed the
> Euro bonuses of the $100/month plan, which was 20 cents a minute in Europe
> for any call and unlimited data in Europe.
>
> I've been on *that* $100/month plan for a couple of years now.
> They no longer offer it, but just today I called T-Mobile and they tried 
> to
> get me on this plan:
>
> T-Mobile ONE
> - automatic payment
> - $140/month for 4 phones
> - Unlimited talk & text & data
> - Some additional Euro goodies (not worth much though)
>
> So, basically, for $40/month for 4 phones, I can get all 4 on unlimited
> data where they can "tether" at 3G speeds. When asked what tethering meant
> to them, they gave me BS so I asked for the second level of support, and
> what they call "tethering" is actually hot spotting because no cable is
> involved.
>
> So, for 4 phones, my choices are:
> a. $100/month with currently 4GB of data per phone (nominally 2.5 GB)
> b. $140/month with unlimited data (and unlimited 3G hot spotting)
>
> Since I'm fine with the 4GB of data (only one person in the group, which
> includes more than the local family uses any data at all) the $100/month
> plan for 4 phones is just fine.
>
> There is no better plan that anyone actually *knows* about, although Rod
> Speed and nospam (as always) allude coyishly to mysterious non-existent
> plans, just because they have nothing to offer of any concrete value.

More of your bare faced lies. We don’t bother because
you ignore anything anyone ever finds for you.