T-Mobile offer: buy a new phone get another for half price
If you are looking to grab a new flagship smartphone for yourself and a family member or two, T-Mobile is running a new buy one get half-off another event starting from today that could save you a quite a few dollars. According to T-Mobile, 70 percent of families won’t upgrade everyone’s phones at the same time due to costs, which is where this latest offer comes in.
As part of the promotion, new and existing T-Mobile Simple Choice customers can buy a new smartphone from Samsung or LG (or Apple if you really must) and then purchase another device from the same manufacturer of equal or greater value for half the usual price. All of T-Mobile’s post-paid data plans qualify for this promotion, but you must purchase a line of service for each device.
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Handsets covered by the deal include the Samsung’s Galaxy S6, S6 edge, S6 edge+, Note5, the LG G4 and the newer V10 flagship. You can find the full details about the promotion over on this page from T-Mobile. At most you could purchase 12 phones under the plan, giving you six of them at half the usual retail price.
If you are interested, you won’t be able to grab the offer online. Instead, customers will have to either pop into one of T-Mobile’s retail stores or give the carrier a call at 1-800-866-2453.
T-Mobile’s BOGO promotion is one of its biggest sales ever
Are you looking for a new smartphone? Could someone else on your plan use an upgrade? If so, T-Mobile is going to save you a ton of money. For a limited time you can walk into a T-Mobile store and pick up a flagship phone from LG, Samsung, or Apple for half off.
Here are the details. You must purchase one phone at a full price, and the second phone must be from the same manufacturer. For example, if you want to pick up a Samsung Galaxy Note 5, your second phone must be a Samsung phone and equal or less value. Pretty simple, right? In that scenario, you can get a Samsung Galaxy S6 for about $12 a month, and over 24 months that’s a $290 savings. If you want to grab two LG V10’s, your second phone will only be $12.50 a month and save you $300 off the purchase price.
This deal is NOT limited to just new customers. Current customers are eligible for the deal, and even though you can trade in your phone for a discount, you don’t have to. T-Mobile doesn’t give the best value for phone trades so you can easily sell it for more on sites like Swappa. Depending on what type of phone you currently have, you could sell it and end up making enough to pay off your phone you just got for half price.
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T-Mobile says they’re offering this sale because up to 70% of people don’t upgrade when they can due to price or upgrade restrictions. This leaves many teenagers with hand-me-down phones. Their motivations may not be all that altruistic, but this is a great deal to get your kids a phone. For a family of four, walking in and getting the entire family phones means you’re going to end up with four phones for the price of three. You can’t beat free.
The deal starts today, January 27, and T-Mobile hasn’t stated when it will end. Both family and business accounts on T-Mobile’s Simple Choice plans qualify for the promotion, and you can get up to six half-priced phones. The available models are the Apple iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6S, 6S Plus, Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, S6 Edge+, Note 5 and the LG G4 and V10. You can read here why we here at AndroidGuys think the V10 is one of the best phones of 2015.
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T-Mobile Offering ‘Buy One, Get One 50% Off’ on iPhone 6 or Later
T-Mobile has announced a new BOGO promotion that offers qualifying Simple Choice customers half off all iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus models, or any iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, with the purchase of another iPhone of equal or greater value. The savings are applied instantly at the point of sale.
Eligible devices can be purchased for full retail price, or through T-Mobile’s Jump financing program, and smartphone trade-in is required. T-Mobile continues to offer up to $650 towards a balance owing or to pay off early termination fees to new customers that switch to the carrier.
The limited time offer is available in the U.S. at T-Mobile stores nationwide starting today, while supplies last, and also applies to Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Note5 lineup and LG’s G4 and V10 smartphones. The promotion can also be requested over the phone by calling 1-800-TMOBILE.
Simple Choice customers with approved credit are eligible to purchase up to 12 devices, meaning 6 devices at half off. T-Mobile@Work customers can also take advantage of the offer. The promotion does not allow customers to mix and match iPhones and Android-based smartphones.
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T-Mobile is now selling the BlackBerry Priv
Now that its exclusive carrier arrangement to sell the flagship is out of the way, BlackBerry’s Priv is being sold by T-Mobile. The carrier stated last week it would begin selling the handset on January 26, and today orders were accepted on schedule.
T-Mobile customers have a number of ways to purchase the Priv, assuming they want a handset with a slide-out physical keyboard sitting behind a 5.4-inch display. Longtime, trusted customers can get the Priv for $30 per month for twenty-four months without putting any money down. Through the JUMP! On Demand program, the monthly payments become $34 spread across eighteen months. Those building credit can pay $396 upfront and get the handset for $13.50 per month for twenty-four months. However, you can purchase it outright by laying out $719. That seems like a steep price, but it’s about right when compared to offerings from Samsung and LG.
Verizon customers have been waiting since November to see the handset become availability. It was three months ago when Big Red posted that the Priv is “coming soon.”
The BlackBerry Priv has a 5.4-inch Quad HD (2560×1440) display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor with 3GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage and a microSD card slot, 18MP / 2MP cameras, 3410mAh battery, and Android 5.1.1 built into an extremely secure framework. Apparently consumers have liked the Priv because BlackBerry is expanding its availability, launching in India in two days.
BlackBerry’s early success with the Priv has pushed the company to make a direct switch to Android for their 2016 devices. A handset with the codename Vienna, which features an always-present physical keyboard, leaked a few months ago showing BlackBerry pairing Android with a form factor the company is known for.
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Sprint gets ballsy in latest ad
Based on the major wireless carrier ads that are running during this afternoon’s NFL game, it takes some balls to compete in the market. The latest carrier to jump in the mix is Sprint which released their own version of ads currently running by Verizon and Sprint.
The marketing team games between the carriers started with Verizon when they decided to launch an ad campaign that used the imagery of different balls rolling down a ramp to demonstrate some points that Verizon wanted to make about their network.
T-Mobile took exception to some of the claims and launched their own ad using balls going down a ramp to point out issues with Verizon’s claims. T-Mobile leader John Legere also launched the coyly named #BallBusterChallenge to demonstrate T-Mobile’s superiority to Verizon.
In the new spot that was released this weekend, Sprint joins the train of rolling balls with a claim that their LTE network is faster than any of the other carriers. In the ad, Sprint says this is because they have been building the network of the future. Sprint also renews their campaign to offer data plans that are half the cost of the plan a customer may be porting over from with a competitor.
You can check out Sprint’s new spot below if you have not already seen it playing during a game on TV.
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T-Mobile is ‘optimizing’ not throttling YouTube videos
About a week ago you may recall that YouTube and a small number of other online video providers were complaining about T-Mobile’s Binge On service, which allows customers to stream videos from certain services without eating into their data plan. The complaint goes that T-Mobile is also reducing the quality of videos from providers outside of the platform, such as YouTube, without direct consumer consent.
T-Mobile has now officially responded to the complaint, stating that it thinks throttling data is a misleading term. Instead the company has simply “optimized” the content for mobile, apparently.
“Using the term “throttle” is misleading … We aren’t slowing down YouTube or any other site. In fact, because video is optimized for mobile devices, streaming from these sites should be just as fast, if not faster than before. A better phrase is “mobile optimized” or a less flattering “downgraded” is also accurate.” – T-Mobile representative
Perhaps T-Mobile has a technical point to make that it is not throttling access speeds to these video platforms. However, automatically turning down the quality of content does not really seem much different from a user’s point of view. The carrier appears to be choosing its wording quite carefully in order to avoid running up against the FCC’s rules regarding web traffic discrimination.
“Reducing data charges can be good for users, but it doesn’t justify throttling all video services, especially without explicit user consent,”– YouTube spokesman
Furthermore, T-Mobile seems to have backtracked on its earlier comments about a “technical problem” related to YouTube videos. The carrier now doesn’t seem to deny that it is blanket applying its data compression techniques to videos outside of its Binge On program. Although consumers have the option to opt in and out through their account settings, this situation will likely continue to infuriate content providers who declined to partner up with T-Mobile.
The FCC has already separately sent out letters to a range of carriers in order to collect information about their latest plans and it wouldn’t be surprising to see affected companies take their complaints further in the New Year.
YouTube Accuses T-Mobile of Downgrading All Video With Binge On Program
YouTube this morning provided a statement to The Wall Street Journal criticizing T-Mobile’s recently introduced Binge On program and accusing T-Mobile of throttling all video and not just the video of its Binge On partners.
Launched in November, Binge On is a T-Mobile video service that allows T-Mobile subscribers to watch video from content partners without it counting against customer data plans. The catch is that it uses a proprietary data compression algorithm to stream the video in 480p. While Binge On can be disabled, using the feature requires partner video to be watched in 480p, which T-Mobile calls “DVD quality.”
T-Mobile has 24 partners for Binge On, including Netflix, HBO, Sling TV, and more, but YouTube has not signed up to participate. Despite the fact that YouTube is not partnering with T-Mobile, the company says its video streams are still being downgraded to 480p quality, a problem YouTube would like fixed.
YouTube, which is owned by Alphabet Inc., said T-Mobile is effectively throttling, or degrading, its traffic. “Reducing data charges can be good for users, but it doesn’t justify throttling all video services, especially without explicit user consent,” a YouTube spokesman said.
The Internet Association also backed up YouTube’s claim, stating that T-Mobile’s Binge On service “appears to involve the throttling of all video traffic, across all data plans, regardless of network congestion.”
T-Mobile did not address YouTube’s complaints when questioned by The Wall Street Journal, instead giving a blanket statement about Binge On. Customers love “free streaming video that never hits their data bucket” and “the quality of their video experience and the complete control they have.”
The United States Federal Communications Commission is looking into Binge On along with free data services from AT&T and Comcast. While there is no formal inquiry at this time, the FCC has asked the three companies to answer some questions about their free data practices. YouTube’s accusations could further spark the FCC’s interest, especially as some consumer advocates believe that programs like Binge On violate net neutrality rules.
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T-Mobile takes a moment to reflect on 2015
T-Mobile has had quite the year. While adding customers every quarter and launching Binge On, the carrier is expanding its network throughout the United States. Customers are getting what can easily be called the best experience in the wireless industry. The new year is just over one week away, but T-Mobile wants to gloat on its 2015 success before 2016 arrives.
Neville Ray, T-Mobile’s Chief Technology Officer, highlighted what T-Mobile accomplished in 2015:
- We’ve more than doubled our LTE footprint—to reach 304 million Americans this year
- T-Mobile Extended Range LTE will improve our LTE signal for customers across 300 markets, big and small
- T-Mobile Wideband LTE is now live nationwide, with peak speeds in excess of 150Mbps
- We’ve launched T-Mobile Advanced Messaging, Video Calling, Binge On and more
- And we’ve delivered the Fastest 4G LTE in the nation throughout it all!
Aside from being the nation’s fastest 4G LTE network for seven straight quarters, T-Mobile is proudly proclaiming that its footprint grew nearly 1 million square miles (or 219 new markets altogether). Whether you’re in a small town or a large city, T-Mobile is doing everything possible to bring its network to you. And that means utilizing the 700MHz spectrum the carrier bought from Verizon earlier in the year. The same thing goes for the spectrum from MetroPCS: T-Mobile customers are getting the very best of the the carrier has available.
T-Mobile won’t be slowing down in 2016. Ray mentioned what the carrier intends to do next year as well:
- We’ll continue innovating wireless to support Americans’ evolving uses for the mobile internet.
- We’ll continue extending T-Mobile LTE into new suburbs, towns and destinations for the first time.
- We’ll continue building more speed and capacity, and roll out new technologies like 4×4 MIMO and 3-band carrier aggregation.
- And, of course, we’ll participate aggressively in the upcoming broadcast spectrum auction, while continuing to champion more innovation with LTE-Unlicensed (LTE-U).
Among the final things covered in the year-end recap was 5G, the next form of high-speed data that will succeed 4G LTE. T-Mobile made it clear that “industry standards don’t even exist for 5G yet,” but the carrier will be ready to deliver 5G effectively when available. For now, T-Mobile is telling everyone to be cautious in believing what other carriers say about 5G.
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How To: Disable and enable Binge On for T-Mobile
Announced in early November, T-Mobile’s Binge On service gives customers unlimited video streaming access to a number of major services. Specifically, if you stream video from companies such as HBO, Hulu, Netflix, SHOWTIME, Sling TV, STARZ, or WatchESPN, the used data will not count against your monthly allotment. Sounds awesome right? Well, there’s a slight catch.
See, even though the services are delivered at DVD quality, it’s ultimately streaming to you at 480 pixels (or better). What about when you want a 720p or 1080p quality video to watch on that gorgeous smartphone? Well, as it turns out, you can hop in and out of the Binge On feature at will.
Indeed, you can opt to watch streaming video at its full potential resolution and then return to Binge On afterwards. Want to get in on Making a Murderer on Netflix at full capable resolution? Disable Binge On and then turn it back on when you’re done.
Toggling Binge On on and off is actually quite a simple process and one that a lot of you might not be aware of. Here’s how to go about enabling and disabling Binge On in a few simple steps.
- Log into My T-Mobile
- Click on Profile (top right corner of page)
- Look under Phone Controls for Binge On (left half of page)
- Turn off or turn on Binge On
T-Mobile does make it really easy to do this and we applaud them for it. It’s nice to know that we can turn this on and off at will, without having to call customer service or wait a set period for it to take effect.
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YouTube is unhappy about T-Mobile throttling video data
T-Mobile recently launched its “Binge On” unlimited video streaming promotion, which allows customers to stream video content from a number of popular services without eating into their data allowance. The trade-off is that T-Mobile limits the quality of videos that users can stream from services within the program to save on bandwidth. However, YouTube and other companies are now complaining that video quality is being lowered outside of the program as well.
Unlike services from Hulu, Netflix, HBO Go, and others, YouTube videos aren’t part of T-Mobile’s Binge One program and therefore still count towards data consumed. However, users are still apparently seeing video quality reduced by default. The only way that customers can restore full quality videos appears to be to shut off Binge On through their account settings.
“Reducing data charges can be good for users, but it doesn’t justify throttling all video services, especially without explicit user consent,”– YouTube spokesman
“T-Mobile’s new ‘streaming optimization’ program appears to involve throttling of all video traffic, across all data plans, regardless of network congestion,” – Internet Association
This could raise a new issue for federal regulators, as the Federal Communications Commission’s net-neutrality rules are designed to prevent internet providers from offering different tiers of service to different websites. Some consumer advocate groups are worried that data throttling could be an attempt to circumvent these rules, but T-Mobile argues that its program is in line with the regulations.
See also: T-Mobile will let its customers stream Netflix, Hulu and more for free
T-Mobile has not officially commented on the case, but CEO John Legere reiterated that customers can turn the throttling feature on and off at will. In addition, the FCC has recently sent letters out to T-Mobile, Comcast and AT&T to gather additional information about their latest services. There isn’t a formal investigation underway, yet, but this probably isn’t the last we will hear about mobile data throttling.
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