Jewely1781
DFW,#2Author of original report
Tue, February 26, 2008
First of all, if you did the research-the texting was 5 cents a text a couple (maybe 3) years ago-I found that out while doing research. Second...if we used on average over 30 texts a month-we would have looked into a texting plan. However, we usually do not use that many texts-so we never could justify getting one. And it doesn't matter either way-if their contract states that you can print the terms and conditions online-and those terms and conditions state something completely different from your contract-there is something wrong. They cannot make us agree to the text price if we were not made aware of the increase in the first place. As far as receiving bills, I am starting to wonder if people are just glancing over my posts and not thoroughly reading them-as it states-I have kept every single paper received by T-Mobile over the past two years...we looked at the total on the bills and thought that we were going over our minutes at the time. It wasn't until this last bill that I noticed that we had close to 500 unused minutes.
April May
Terre Haute,#3Consumer Suggestion
Mon, February 25, 2008
I have been a T-Mobile customer for a long time and they have never had 5 cent texting. It was 10 cents for extra text, but it changed to 15 cents in like the summer of 07. Do you not receive a bill? Did you not see that you were being charged 15 cents per text when you had previously been charged 10 cents? Why were you not airing your grievances then? Maybe you should consider signing up for a text messaging package.
Jewely1781
DFW,#4Author of original report
Fri, February 08, 2008
The following was an article I found (title and one paragraph)... T-Mobile USA, A CareerTV Close-up 5 Headquartered in Factoria, Bellevue, Washington, T-Mobile USA is currently the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S. market with approximately 27 million customers as of August 2007. In addition to mobile phone service, T-Mobile also operates WiFi hotspots in the United States and Europe. In the USA alone, it operates over 8,000 (as of December 22, 2006) T-Mobile HotSpot locations for Internet access including such locations as airports, airline clubs, Starbucks coffeehouses, Kinko's, Borders Books and Music, Hyatt and Red Roof Inn Hotels. Let's say Half belong to messaging plans....and this is a very rough calculation... This leaves 14,000,000 people (I'm rounding up because some go over their allotted text plans). If just 1 text is sent on each of these phones to people who are NOT TMobile customers already-TMobile gets $1,400,000. If all the people receiving are T-Mobile customers already-this earns them $2,800,000, because they not only charge for sending-but for receiving as well. Lets say half of those receiving are T-mobile...This still gives T-Mobile $2,100,000...per text. But lets face it...many people send and receive more than one text a month. Lets say an average person wihtout a text plan, texts about 30 a month. So, multiply 2,100,000 by 30! THIS IS $63,000,000! They are charging roughly $63,000,000 a month more from consumers than what their website states they are supposed to be charging! Why have I been the only one to find this??? I don't understand how a company can do this.