Hate long-term cellphone contracts? Starting August 6th, Tmobile will be the first national carrier to offer month-to-month plans, straight up.
TmoNews says, “It sounds like these plans will be very similar, if not the same, to T-mobile’s current offerings of individual, or family time plans, with or without MyFaves.” For new customers, this will mean that, if you buy from Tmobile, you will have to pay full retail price for your new cellphone. Unless there’s some caveat against it, it would be smart though to buy your phone off eBay or convert pay-as-you-go Walmart-style phone to the month-to-month plan. There will also be an activation fee. But at least there will be no early termination fee.
Thumbs up to Tmobile on this one, even though it’s probably just a placating gesture in advance of the FCC ruling on ETFs. Hopefully the other carriers will follow suit with similar placating gestures.
T-mobile Introduces Month to Month Contracts [TmoNews] (Thanks to Scott!)
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That said – Here is the deal on flexpay.
Yes – it is set up for those with poor credit.
Before Flexpay T-mobile required a $250 deposit per line for service to customers with poor credit. They couldn’t afford it and potential customers were walking out every day. Flexpay was launched in July of 2007 and works great as long as you stay within your plan and don’t go over.
Also, if you run out of minutes you can add money to the plan with a pre-paid card and have minutes services or ringtones with that.
Flexpay does offer month-to-month and contract plans. on Mo-2-mo you do not have to give a SS# for the service or have a credit check run. You do have to pay full retail for the phone or provide one also.
The rate plans on flexpay are the same as regular post-paid – but month 2 month can have exceptions or may not have all of the plans offerred to annual contract or post paid customers.
The new month-to-month plans does not say t-mobile never offered mo-to-mo before but these are new plans for post paid cusotmers to select instead of the ones offered now.
The ones before often did not have nights, or weekends, or both. Now customers will have more choices without running up a contract.