“Today T-Mobile confirmed iPhones with its prepaid service can now be purchased and activated in Apple stores across the [U.S.],” Jordan Kahn reports for 9to5Mac.
“To go along with the launch, T-Mobile will offer discounts in the form of $50 off the device for prepaid plans and a $50 iTunes gift card for iPhones activated on its Simple Choice postpaid plans,” Kahn reports. “T-Mobile’s fine print notes: ‘Must activate device in-store. Limit 1 device per customer. Offer only valid with activation of $50 or $70 worth of service.'”
Kahn reports, “Apple also has plans to introduce AT&T prepaid iPhones as part of the same initiative. Customers activating devices on AT&T would need at least a $60 per month pre-paid plan (with 2.5GB of internet data and unlimited talk and text).”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
I don’t understand how a “$60 per month” plan is a “pre-paid” plan. The point of being pre-paid, is to pay in advance for a known amount of service. Then, you don’t pay again until you have used up that service, and then you pay for another known amount of service. That’s the distinction with “regular” plans, where you pay a recurring known amount every month, for an unknown amount of service.
If there’s a “per month” requirement, that’s basically a regular plan, without the carrier giving you a subsidy for the phone.
You’re referring to the postpaid plans. The article references both prepaid and postpaid activations.
No…
> Kahn reports, “Apple also has plans to introduce AT&T prepaid iPhones as part of the same initiative. Customers activating devices on AT&T would need at least a $60 per month pre-paid plan…
“Pre-paid” is paying up front for a set amount of service. When you run out, you “pre-pay” again for another set amount of service (which can be the same or different from the previous amount). A “$60 per month pre-paid plan” does not make sense, unless they are saying the customer is required to buy at least $60 every month, which sort of defeats the “only pay for what you use” advantage of using a pre-paid plan.
And I thought TMobile wanted to make it simple.