Following the announcement that T-Mobile would carry Apple devices in 2013, the company presented some of its plans to analysts, reports The Verge.
They're planning a large ad campaign that was repeatedly referred to as "fun" and will almost surely be designed to poke at the other carriers. The idea T-Mobile is going for is "You love your iPhone, but you hate AT&T," the company told analysts, and even made vague references to proving pundits wrong and forcing news reports to issue "retractions" on their predictions.
Additionally, it was revealed that Deutsche Telekom will be spending $4.7 billion on network upgrades in 2013 and $3 billion in 2014 and 2015. $4 billion will be spend on rolling out its LTE network which is expected to reach 100 million people by mid-2013 and 200 million by the end of the year. Finally, the company expects to have regulatory approval for its MetroPCS acquisition in the first half of next year.
We'll have to wait until next year to see if T-Mobile will be able to execute on its lofty goals.
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Mike - December 7, 2012 at 5:20am
Now t mobile got 2 year contract no phone. Free or no cheep phone.
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Guest - December 7, 2012 at 4:21am
Hopefully the unlimited data will come back to AT&T if they feel pressured by T-Mobile. In order for T-Mobile to compete they must keep the unlimited data plan, otherwise they will never survive. I bet the iPhone 5 is going to be exclusive to T-Mobile. I agree this is great news for the consumer, its about time to shake up Verizon & AT&T, these carriers have dominated the US mobile market. 2 GIG of data plan? Come on!! It is a poor deal. Do you know what Verizon is doing? Now if you upgrade your phone to any new phone whether it is an iPhone 5 or different phone they will remove your unlimited data plan. That's a complete robbery. My friend just paid full price for an iPhone 5 he refused to have his unlimited changed. That's completely wrong! I dislike Verizon.
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sdlfkj - December 8, 2012 at 6:13pm
T-Mobile is probably the absolute best carrier in the US (I don't know about the other international carriers though) but I have a family plan, shared 1000 mins and unlimited text, 2 lines with 4G data plan and a 3rd line with unlimited mins (which my dad needs to make lots of calls) and with my company discount, my total bill has only been $94! Yes! I have paid between $94-$96 for the past 3 months now! That's less than $25/line! Imagine if I decided to remove both data plans and the unlimited minutes for my dad? That's a saving of $30! Because each added service is $10. I'd only have to pay $70! I can even remove text for another minus $10! That's $60/month for 4 lines! Check out T-Mobile's value plan. It's amazingly cheap.
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iCrunch - December 7, 2012 at 3:52am
Doesn't matter how you feel about the carriers. It's a win-win for the consumer. Good thing AT&T wasn't able to gobble up T-Mobile in 2011. Sprint has its own plans and they don't include giving up. More competition. This is all good news!
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Jaedre - December 7, 2012 at 3:24am
5mb is slow for iphone 5... I get 20-25
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irepairseattle - December 7, 2012 at 2:29am
Awesome news! Finally T-Mobile I remember the old iphone 2g days on web2go. Seems like a life time ago but it worked. Now LTE is awesome.
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Remi - December 6, 2012 at 9:06pm
Not true. I have used more than 10GB for less than a month. Netflix, YouTube , pandora downloader, app downloading etc. For one day my Internet was slow . Called st costumer service and they fix it. Mms and everything works fine.
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MUKAI - December 6, 2012 at 8:16pm
Unlimited Data 4G with real high speeds of over 10MBPS download and upload with T-Mobile. With AT&T you get good speeds but unreliable service and poor customer service. I dislike AT&T.
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Remi - December 6, 2012 at 7:27pm
I'm using unlocked iPhone 4S with straight talk. 45$ a month unlimited. I get "4G" connectivity with over 5MB downloads and 1 MB uploads.
You can choose between tmobile or AT
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yoeiphone - December 6, 2012 at 7:54pm
what about mms, i have iphone 5, when apply mms settings then lost my internet settings, i haven't mms
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iOrange - December 6, 2012 at 8:01pm
Search at google or YouTube for setting mms. I got mine
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iOrange - December 6, 2012 at 8:02pm
Internet not unlimited 2GB only if you go over they will turn off your service on straight talk.
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no wat - December 7, 2012 at 3:50am
Straight talk does not have 4G they still use 3g
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iOrange - December 7, 2012 at 2:29pm
Depend on the phone if you have Iphone 4 3G, iPhone 4S 4G.
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