“T-Mobile’s new plan could do a lot to offset [iPad] pricing pressures,” Sam Mattera writes for The Motley Fool. “On Thursday, the carrier said it would begin selling tablets, including the iPad Air, in monthly installments.”
“Starting next month, if you own a tablet compatible with T-Mobile’s network, you can bring it in, and for the cost of a SIM card, T-Mobile will give you 200MB of data a month for the rest of the tablet’s life,” Mattera writes. “But as most mobile users know, 200MB of data really isn’t much. T-Mobile hopes that, by luring customers in with a bit of free data, many of them will purchase larger data plans. Perhaps some of them will even switch their smartphones over.”
“But more interesting than free data is the new monthly purchase plan. Going forward, Customers will be able to buy tablets from T-Mobile and pay for them with monthly installments,” Mattera writes. “[T-Mobile] will eventually sell Apple’s full-size iPad Air for 24 payments of $26.25.”
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free market (what’s left of it) forces at work.
Hey, another disillusioned teapublican idiot.
Keep up the good work mate!
thanks, Unregistered Digital Masturbator!
You can spell “Teachable Moment™ without ‘TEA’…
Hey, another delusional Dummocrat bonehead.
Keep up the bad work matey!
Oh go pound sand you ignorant buffoon.
Hey, Delbie;
The ONLY thing that has given this country the health, wealth and longevity it has now is due to unrestricted innovation due to limited (as opposed to restrictive) government.
The people who came to this continent were often the ones who were limited or oppressed back in Europe, so they knew what caused problems in life and business.
Get real.
The free market will be turned upside down in a few years when automation threatens manufacturing and other industries even more. In 50-100 years, when we are (mostly) replaced by machines, you may not be singing the praises of capitalism so much.
well, contact me a century from now and I’ll apologize.
The “free” market also requires perfect, open, complete information provided by companies who would never distort the truth for their gain or advantage, and a market made up of rational, emotionless human beings who would never be manipulated by propaganda and never make buying decisions based on emotion. Good luck with that.
That is the sort of language the Luddites were using.
Someone has to design, make, ship, repair, maintain, resell and modify the changeable parts of the automation systems. Those are going to be very well compensated positions.
I’d go for monthly installments for a new iPad!
I agree. The interest free financing will be very attractive to many. 24 x 26.25= 630.
ATT will be doing it under their NEXT plan on iPhones and wii do the same for the iPads. There’s nothing new in this.
This is attractive to me. I like it.
Sounds good, and sure beats a layaway plan. 🙂
Nice try, T-Mobile, but I’m not buying it. I’m fine with Sprint. Unlike most carriers, they actually cover my region well. I hated getting dropped calls when I so much as leave my ZIP Code. I’m sticking with Sprint.
I checked that, but with iPhone you can’t do data and voice concurrently with Sprint network.
Great to hear T-MO shaking things up. once their LTE network is on par with ATT or VZ i’ll happily switchover.
HTML420, that’s an interesting nickname. So you must be very interested in Adloph Hitler’s birthdate, or the Columbine anniversary. It can’t possibly have anything to do with the police code for “illicit drug”, and if it does, I doubt you have even tried weed. I doubt most of you even know where the term “420” even originated from. Posers…
You are the only one who knows anything about this and you are the only one who can use this number. Got it! Thanks.
What’s the frequency Kenneth?
And you never heard of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
James chill out and smoke one. you’re an uptight lunatic and you need help.
Police code huh?
That’s not the point. It’s that hipsters like to take established facets of culture, and “mainstream” it like it’s the latest fad. They already took the British wartime posters that said “Keep Calm and Carr On” and ruined them by turning it into the fad-of-the-week type of ephemera that the Millenial generation is so fond of. Glad my generation (Generation X) never had cheap throw away fads like this. Sometimes I feel that the 1990s were the last time anything was authentic.
What the hell are you babbling about?! You sound like a basket case who went off his meds. Get your squirrely arse back to the asylum.
In the words of Billy Joel (from a little before your 90s golden age), “The good ole days weren’t always good, and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems.”
This was actually supposed to be a response to HTML420 about his name. This was meant as a response to a comment above this one. Sorry if there was any misunderstanding.
would you be more upset at me if i told you my dog’s new nickname is HTML420 Jr.
Spoken like a true Old-Timer.
Generation X never had cheap throwaway fads??????
Yes, I think meds are in order for you.
In any case, I hope those damn kids finally get off your lawn.
I just want the elders to stay off my xeriscape….
Another baloney of a story paid for by the shysters of WS. Best buy has always offered 18 months 0 percent financing. Tmobile has rescinded their no downpayment. Like the 250 mb free – entirely laughable but serves the shysters purpose for justifying price movements of shares.
Maybe, ou of topic, but it is incerdible that the shysters are able to proclaim that a button to call customer support on the kindle is the greatest invention since slice bread. Omoaring this to the genius bar is even more laughable. In the end the reason for the button is really because users of the kindle need help using the device. The iPad, entirely intuitive.
Amazing how the shysters always win.
I like TMobile iohone plan. Unlimited Data, Tesxt, Voice and Tethering your other devices like the iPad or even MacBook. Price? about 90 bucks a month with the purchase of new iPhone 5S. That sure kicks ATT butt big time. When it’s time to switch and it’s still available I’m dumping my grandfathered ATT plan and heating over to TMobile.
Iohone? I never heard of that. Is it some Chinese iPhone rip-off that runs on a 3-year-old version of Android?
lol I was walking and moving while typing. I didn’t catch iOS showing a tyyyyyypooooo!
Take the 5s demo and attempt to use the internet on T-M’s network. I couldn’t get MDN to download so I went with a different Telco.
“if you own a tablet compatible with T-Mobile’s network…”
Which are comparable – ATT, Verizon?
Free is good.
AT&T only.
They are giving away the razor in hopes you’ll buy plenty of blades!
So, what is the price of a sim card?
$10
I wasn’t planning on running out and getting a new iPad Air, but with this plan it seems like a no brainer. Plus, as much as I really wanted one, I was not planning on getting one with a radio in it, but again, with this plan it’s a no brainer, even if T-Mobile’s network is a bit challenged. It’ll be interesting to see if this year the lines are longer at T-Mobile than Apple. 😜
Oh yeah, I forgot, if this T-Mobile thing is legit and I actually have the opportunity to buy one, I really will be buying two!!! One for me, and one for my wife. And that’s the secret sauce with this promotion for Apple!!!
Here’s to the crazy ones…
all the black kids are hearing about t-mobiles offer and saying “That’s my Nigga!”
I’ve been with almost all of them: Omnipoint / Voicestream / T-Mobile, Sprint (and later VirginMobile), Cingular / AT&T (as well as the old, pre-Cingular TDMA AT&T). I had smartphones on AT&T, Sprint / Virgin and T-Mobile. And for me, T-Mobile has been by far the best.
Whenever I call them during the day, I get a call centre in America (and not overseas). When I call late at night, I get Manilla, Philippines, but they seem to know their stuff quite well.
More importantly, they have bent over backwards for me several times so far. First, when I switched over (from Virgin Mobile), I brought three lines. They waived SIM card cost without me even asking ($30). I started the move online, but had to call when one number wouldn’t get transferred, and the first thing she did was knock off those $30. Months later, when I wanted to suspend a line, it turned out that I wouldn’t save anything (maintenance of suspended line is $10, exactly the price of an additional line), so they offered to keep the line active and knock off $10 for next six months (!).
Another thing; on T-Mobile, tethering was free with basic (500MB) and advanced (2GB) plans, but it was extra $20 with the unlimited 4G data plan. A few months ago, they eliminated this tethering charge from the unlimited 4G plan!
And one more thing — the international roaming is by far the cheapest on T-Mobile, and on top of their 20cent/min voice, they give 2GB of free data overseas (!!?). No other carrier does this.
I may be sounding like a T-Mobile salesman here; anyone who knows me here will know that I’m not. I’m just a very pleased customer. The failure of their AT&T merger was the best thing that could happen to them (and US consumers). They finally decided to pursue this mobile market, made a deal with Apple for the iPhone, and immediately started reclaiming those lost subscribers.
If you have good signal with T-Mobile in your area, drop your current carrier as soon as you can possibly do it and switch over. In the first year alone, you’ll likely save at least $300 (and families of 4 save much more!).