T-Mobile Launches Fiber Internet Service in the US With a Five-Year Price Lock (theverge.com) 39
T-Mobile announced Tuesday it will expand its fiber internet service to more than 500,000 households nationwide, offering three symmetrical speed tiers with five-year price locks starting June 5th. The plans range from 500 Mbps at $80 monthly to 2 Gbps at $110 monthly, with $5 autopay discounts for debit card payments. The expansion follows T-Mobile's joint venture with fiber provider Lumos and its pending Metronet acquisition, positioning the wireless carrier to reach 12 to 15 million households by 2030 as it challenges AT&T and Verizon's multibillion-dollar fiber investments.
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Imagine all the businesses with X accounts he has to boycott.
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I recall the time Budweiser put a rainbow on a solitary beer can.
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That was different. It was obviously a secret signal to some pizza-parlor-basement-dwelling child sex ring members.
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T-MOBILE's WORD is SHIT (Score:2, Informative)
T-MOBILE "price lock" means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
1. They change the rates
2. They add "fees" they make up
3. They are no longer the "un-carrier" just another company ripping off everyone they can as quickly as they can.
But hey, Slashdot can run their PR for them for free. GOOD JOB!!!
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I'd still take the fiber offering over comcast if I had that choice.
Comcast also has fiber offerings (and so do many others). But, as always, location, location, location.
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I wouldn't. Their current offerings suggest they don't really understand the Internet except as a way for tablets and smartphones to access the web without using your cellphone data plan.
I have T-Mobile Home Internet Backup as a back-up. It's cheap, but alas it's... the other cheap. CGNAT. Crippled IPv6 (no incoming connections! Why?! And no prefix delegations either, just whatever the router is set up with) Required to use their router which requires the use of third party hacks if you want to turn of its
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Crippled IPv6
IPv6 who? It's like none of the ISPs I have available will support it, which is dumb.
Re: But their internet offering is better than com (Score:2)
Comcast cable does have it, properly implemented, without CG-NAT. Of course, other aspects of Comcast suck. God forbid you ever need customer service for a line issue.
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well I'll trade the lack of not having IPV6 support vs having to deal with Comcast anyday. I've heard of the problems.
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IPv6 is supported by most ISPs at the moment. If you're not getting it a /64 or /60, it may be a router configuration issue. If it's not... I'm guessing you live in an area with one crappy ISP that doesn't know what it's doing (or doesn't care.) Or... Verizon, weirdly, as Verizon apparently sucks?
I know for a fact AT&T and Comcast support it, with the former apparently giving you a /61, and latter a /60. Starlink claims to give its customers a /56.
I know Slashdotters were very opposed to the FCC mandate
Re: But their internet offering is better than com (Score:2)
Can't let this comment go about Comcast service being high quality.
If you ever have a reliability issue, they will give you hell. Especially so if you use a third party modem. For 6 months, I had dozens of small interruptions per day. They sent techs, but kept saying the line was fine. I was using a Motorola MB8600 modem. They said they couldn't remotely monitor the modem. Only their own equipment.
I then finally switched to their rented modem. Suddenly, they could see the major problems with the line, and f
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Odd, I've only had my own modems, and Comcast had no issues with it on the one occasion I did have a period of constant service interruptions (the AT&T idiots when installing next door's line had managed to scrape Comcast's cable doing it.) At no point did they ask me to change my modem.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I've had the opposite experience to you.
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Well, they did ask. I think you have been the lucky one. Comcast has regularly been rated one of the worst companies for customer service. Used to be #1 .
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4. They'll continue to bill you after you cancel. It took six months and a complaint with the FCC to get them out of my bank account.
The only worse company worse than T-Mobile is Comcast, which is my only option.
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2. They add "fees" they make up
(Customer Service) "We consider fees to be the new tip. You're not gonna tip, are you? We'd prefer to not have to tag you as #racist now. Also, please consider all the virtual porn your ISP delivers every month. You aren't getting service like that at 3:45AM anywhere else. Thank you for calling."
$80 is expensive (Score:3)
Especially if they don't offer any cheaper plan. So of course at that rate they can afford not to increase price for 3 years.
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Comcast offers gig-down for $50 with a 3-yr contract for new customers.
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Yes indeed, upload speed is around 50 Mbps. But unless you're hosting a web server, that's fast enough for most things.
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With Comcast, the catch is always - you need to pay attention to the upload speed.
Having said that... They have a small number of modems for which they support faster uploads (my Hitron CODA56 is one of them). Our current plan costs $99/month and gives us 800 down / 150 up, which I can live with. We're in a semi-rural area, so fiber isn't likely to be an option for the foreseeable future.
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Especially if they don't offer any cheaper plan. So of course at that rate they can afford not to increase price for 3 years.
..positioning the wireless carrier to reach 12 to 15 million households by 2030..
They'll secure the first pilot of 500K homes with multi-year commitments. Then bundle that together with every customer in default all wrapped up in a nice CDO and have the fine ladies down at the ratings agency give it a AAA rating.
Then they'll sell the Internet Promised Land CDO to some other schmuck who will lowball the bid to roll out 12 to 15 million homes sometime after the 7th contract and 18th promise in 2097 after the executives kids retire from grift.
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>"Especially if they don't offer any cheaper plan. So of course at that rate they can afford not to increase price for 3 years."
Bingo. And that is pre-taxes (which can often be a lot). I pay less than that for Cox 300/35. And I don't NEED anything faster.
Metronet fiber became available a few months ago, finally, in my neighborhood. They have been PLASTERING my mailbox with the same fliers over and over again (10 so far, once a week or something). The pricing looks great until you read the fine print
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No doubt. I'm paying XFinity $65 a month for a 1 Gb connection. A local fiber company offers 2 Gb symmetric fiber connections at $70 per month.
Where? (Score:3)
500k homes is part of a small city. The likelihood this is applicable to anybody here is tiny.
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Sadly, dead on. For different reasons, I am left out.
Wyyred pulled conduit underground (lateral hydroboring underground) through my neighborhood almost 2 years ago. Have not yet come through with the fiber pull, and no apparent plans to do so. I suspect they did not get sufficient presales to justify the expense, though they may have run out of money somewhere else in the interim, and woops, no hope.
And they will not cede access to any other provider for less than a usurious amount, so we will be effectivel
Overpriced (Score:3)
I pay less for 1GB than the announced offering. They're not getting my biz.
Great deal (Score:2)
This is like twice the cost of what I pay for fiber service.
Would be nice if they could manage more than 0.2 M (Score:2)
At my home. Thats what's reflected on the FCC site for my address after I ran the FCC app a few years ago.
0.2 Mbps is if you're lucky. In most rooms, even phone calls will break down. Or worse, incoming calls just randomly go straight to voice mail. Happens even with the phone with Wifi calling priority.
Wait a minute ... (Score:2)
I have to calculate a bit:
Standard "commercial" internet is somewhere between 450THB and 650THB
The government provided internet (is not everywhere available, if an area is already covered by several commercial providers it is not on their priority list to provide some as well) is starting at 375THB.
And that is: full speed, and usually uncapped data amount. On the other hand: no guaranty about your maximum bandwidth, that costs extra, in roughly the 1000THB range.
Well, the fibre of my router is faster than t
Another fiber internet service not coming to me (Score:2)
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This is a current complaint in the broadband-for-all and universal service community. Rural areas cost thousands to even pull fiber near, much less to the lot. Government giveaways and boondoggles specify terrestrial fiber as the only acceptable solution, but Starlink is doing it and could satisfy most use cases. It's stuck in a political controversy now, and many do not want to approve of Starlink as a rural solution, despite it being ready to go and cheap [itif.org], compared to fiber pulls.
Then again government *is
This seems very expensive to me (Score:2)
I'm in the UK with an "alt-net" ISP (small ISP only covering small towns that were neglected by BT Openreach or Virgin Media) and they offer 500 Mbit/sec unlimited download and upload for £27 ($37 including taxes) a month, 900 Mbit/sec for £30 ($41) and 2300 Mbit/sec for £50 ($68) for either a 12 or 18 month fixed price contract. These T-Mobile prices seem very high to me!
BTW, I just switched to their 900 Mbit/sec plan and they offered it to me for the price of the 500 Mbit/sec plan (no id