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Re: Are others on T-Mobile in the USA getting their data constantly updated, for free?

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On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 11:39:42 -0500, ElfinArc wrote:

> The data is the big deal with phone plans these days.  Since nearly all
> have unlimited talk/text, data is the only thing they have left to play
> with.  For those that use a lot of cell data, it is very important and nice
> to have all these new/upgraded data deals.  For others that really don't
> use much data, there are nearly no real deals that are much different
> between carriers.
> 
> Guys like me that only sign up for the basic deals and don't really care
> that the basic ones have more data, it makes picking a carrier so much
> easier.

I'm like you are, in that I first signed up with T-Mobile for their 
$60/month plan with unlimited talk/text and NO data.

That worked fine until I went to Europe a few times and the cost of the 
calls was a few hundred bucks, so I switched off that grandfathered plan to 
$100/month for the same 4 phones with 1GB of data (at that time).

Now it's $100/month (plus government stuff, of course) and 3.5GB of data, 
but I had only signed up for 1GB of data (the rest T-Mobile keeps giving to 
me for free).

I guess there is absolutely no risk to T-Mobile in giving me more and more 
data since I'm unlikely to use it just because they give it to me.

It's like giving me an exercise machine or a TV.
I'm not likely to use them so giving them to me would be worthless.

In fact, I received *two* iPads for free, and I almost never use them 
except to debug what is going wrong with what the kids want to do with 
them.

SO that's why I asked if T-Mobile was doing that for all their customers, 
or only the ones who aren't using data?

NOTE: Every tactical trick an intelligent person can find out about their 
vendor is a way to use those tactical tricks in the future to get a better 
deal. For example, I just called Comcast four times, and the first two 
calls gave me a *lousy* deal, but the third call I used Zillow to make 
believe I was a new customer and they gave me a far better deal on that 
third call. Guess what the fourth call was all about!

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Are others on T-Mobile in the USA getting their data constantly updated, for free? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-13 16:06 +0000
  Re: Are others on T-Mobile in the USA getting their data constantly updated, for free? ElfinArc <elfinarc6@gmail.com> - 2016-09-13 11:39 -0500
    Re: Are others on T-Mobile in the USA getting their data constantly updated, for free? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-14 04:40 +0000
    Re: Are others on T-Mobile in the USA getting their data constantly updated, for free? Zaidy036 <Zaidy036@air.isp.spam> - 2016-09-14 06:04 +0000
  Re: Are others on T-Mobile in the USA getting their data constantly updated, for free? "Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> - 2016-09-17 11:47 -0400
    Re: Are others on T-Mobile in the USA getting their data constantly updated, for free? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-17 11:48 -0400
      Re: Are others on T-Mobile in the USA getting their data constantly updated, for free? "Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> - 2016-09-17 13:02 -0400
        Re: Are others on T-Mobile in the USA getting their data constantly updated, for free? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-18 00:02 +0000
      Re: Are others on T-Mobile in the USA getting their data constantly updated, for free? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-18 00:02 +0000
        Re: Are others on T-Mobile in the USA getting their data constantly updated, for free? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-17 20:09 -0400
    Re: Are others on T-Mobile in the USA getting their data constantly updated, for free? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-18 00:02 +0000
      Re: Are others on T-Mobile in the USA getting their data constantly updated, for free? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-17 20:09 -0400

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