T-Mobile Unlimited Plan

[ntractv]

Okay, I did the day plan ($9.99) with T-Mobile and it was pretty cool. Was wondering if anyone has the unlimited plan and do you find it worth it for the $29.99 per month price?

[Janak Parekh]

You're talking about T-Mobile WiFi, not GPRS, right? For me, $29.99 is not worth it as I'm not near their APs often enough (believe it or not -- despite being in NYC), but if you frequent Starbucks, etc. I think it might very well be useful. :)

--janak

[Robb Bates]

I have T-Mobile's unlimited data plan and I only pay $19.99. This is the GPRS add-on plan that I use with the $69.99 family plan.

We use that plan as our main ISP since we got rid of our land line and went totally wireless. It's a bit more expensive than our previous dial-up ($7/mo) but I find it worth it since we get a faster connection. Sad isn't it?

Robb

[ntractv]

You're talking about T-Mobile WiFi, not GPRS, right? For me, $29.99 is not worth it as I'm not near their APs often enough (believe it or not -- despite being in NYC), but if you frequent Starbucks, etc. I think it might very well be useful. :)

--janak

Yep, Wi-Fi. I find myself in Starbucks and Borders Books quite often during my lunch hour at work and afterwork waiting for my daughter to finish tutoring. It's a sweet thing and I figured out a $1.00 a day is not bad when I look in those terms. I can get everything working with the exception of sending e-mail. I can receive just fine.

[ntractv]

Also, what's up with the roaming. I read through all the fine print and only see roaming may be additional. Roam to/through who and how much?

[Sven Johannsen]

Okay, I did the day plan ($9.99) with T-Mobile and it was pretty cool. Was wondering if anyone has the unlimited plan and do you find it worth it for the $29.99 per month price?

Just as they have a deal for T-Mobile voice customers for the GPRS all you can eat, they also do that for voice customers on their WiFi Hotspot stuff, $19.99/month, all you can eat. Course if you are not T-Mobile voice subscriber, oh, well.

[dh]

When I lived in the Philly area I used the T-Mobile unlimited WiFi plan and found it mostly worked well. There were some places where the network wasn't working properly (Borders in South Jersey were a big problem for some reason - as Petite Flower will tell you, everything in Jersey is a problem :D ) but the majority were OK.

I don't travel as much now because I changed jobs, so I cancelled the service. My plan at the moment is to get access via my Sprint phone.

[BigDaddy]

Also, remember that if you have the GPRS Unlimited plan you also have access to the WiFi spots, though customer service will play dumb about it....

[Janak Parekh]

Also, remember that if you have the GPRS Unlimited plan you also have access to the WiFi spots, though customer service will play dumb about it....
Do you have a link for this? From my days with T-Mobile, HotSpot was always an add-on.

--janak

[BigDaddy]

I am looking to see exactly how I got the info from T-Mobile (Login and username) when i called customer service about a GPRS question I had which led to the discovery of this little known fact. Remember that Customer Service will play dumb if you ask them. There is also a thread somewhere on www.semuser.com about a few other people who also have discovered this (this shows it just not something i lucked up on). Over the weekend i hope to find the information.

~BD

[Brad Adrian]

Over the weekend i hope to find the information.
Wow! Wouldn't that be great if my unlimited GPRS plan also got me unlimited WiFi access?!?!? If/when you find out the details, drop me a private message!

[Ed Hansberry]

Cool. $29.99 for the Wifi plan or $19.99 for the GPRS plan and they throw the WiFi plan in for FREE!

;)

[stitics]

I have the $19.99 GPRS add-on plan, and now I am quite curious how the unlimited WiFi thing works. I don't recall ever being given a login name or choosing a password.

[Brad Adrian]

I just called the T-Mobile customer service department, and they were adamant about the GPRS and HotSpot services being completely separate and that for me to get the HotSpot access it would cost another $20 per month.

I also asked her how long it would take to activate such an account, because I never know when I'm going to have an airport layover that I could use this with. She said it takes a couple of hours to get the account "in the system," so it probably wouldn't even be worth me waiting until the need arose.

*sigh* Oh, well. I was really hoping to get that HotSpot service, too. If anybody ever DOES find a rep that adds it to your GPRS account for free, PLEASE get his/her name and post it!