{"id":133541,"date":"2026-07-02T22:29:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/t-mobile-jacks-up-prices-for-everybody-ignores-years-of-uncarrier-promises\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T22:31:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:31:48","slug":"t-mobile-jacks-up-prices-for-everybody-ignores-years-of-uncarrier-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/t-mobile-jacks-up-prices-for-everybody-ignores-years-of-uncarrier-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile Jacks Up Prices For Everybody, Ignores Years Of \u2018Uncarrier\u2019 Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"

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from the we-are-now-fully-enshittified<\/i> dept<\/h3>\n

Within the wake of the Dash T-Cellular merger, wi-fi carriers\u00a0immediately stopped trying to compete on price<\/a>\u00a0(precisely what deal critics had warned would occur whenever you scale back sector competitors). T-Cellular, which as soon as tried to distinguish itself because the consumer-friendly \u201cuncarrier,\u201d nearly instantly started behaving similar to AT&T and Verizon, beginning with firing 9,000+ people<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s how senseless and dangerous consolidation all the time works. We all know this, there\u2019s infinite proof of this, and one way or the other it by no means appears to matter in a rustic too corrupt to perform. <\/p>\n

In the previous couple of years, T-Cellular\u2019s been going through lawsuits and shopper blowback as a result of it\u2019s continually jacking up the worth for purchasers who believed they had been below a \u201cprice lock\u201d guarantee<\/a> due to a 7-year-old promotion promising that their value would by no means change.<\/p>\n

Extra just lately, T-Cellular introduced it will be kicking roughly 8 million subscribers off of their traditional (and often cheaper plans)<\/a>, and onto dearer and shittier new T-Cellular plans. These new value hikes have joined a bunch of different value hikes to make all people\u2019s payments considerably dearer and all of their connections much less characteristic wealthy and helpful<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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T-Mobile frames<\/a>\u00a0the present migration as a median\u00a0$4-per-line<\/strong>\u00a0adjustment, in accordance with CNET. That sounds modest till you stack it on the\u00a0$5-per-line<\/strong>\u00a0hike that already hit many legacy smartphone plans again in April 2025. PhoneArena studies some prospects on older grandfathered plans face whole will increase approaching\u00a060%<\/strong>\u00a0compared<\/a>\u00a0to their authentic charges. In the meantime, administrative charges for voice traces climbed from\u00a0$3.99 to $4.49<\/a>\u00a0monthly \u2014 raised twice inside a single yr, in accordance with tmo.report \u2014 with cellular web line charges transferring from $1.60 to $2.10.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This should be extra of that deregulatory, consolidative innovation my Libertarian pals at \u201cnon revenue\u201d \u201cfree market\u201d \u201cassume tanks\u201d have spent years telling me about. <\/p>\n

This was, after all, one thing merger critics warned about<\/a>, very vocally, for a very long time. I wrote repeatedly, at multiple outlets<\/a>, about how this deal\u2019s pre-merger guarantees had been totally nugatory. It didn\u2019t matter, as a result of the federal authorities is simply too corrupt to perform within the public curiosity, antitrust reform now not exists, and the citizens very clearly has a head stuffed with cottage cheese. <\/p>\n

In the meantime all the oldsters accountable \u2014 whether or not corrupt politicians, shitty Libertarian free market assume tanks, or cocky executives \u2014 have long-since moved on to different horrible concepts and reminiscence holed all the factor, whereas customers and labor \u2014 as all the time \u2014 are compelled to eat the entire real-world prices.<\/p>\n

Anyway, bear in mind when T-Cellular bribed Trump to get the merger approved<\/a>, eradicated all of its \u201cDEI\u201d requirements like an obedient poodle<\/a>, or that point they employed Corey Lewandowski as a guide simply days after he mocked a Down Syndrome kid on cable TV<\/a>? Nice stuff. So many reminiscences.<\/p>\n

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\tFiled Underneath: competition<\/a>, consolidation<\/a>, enshittification<\/a>, john legere<\/a>, layoffs<\/a>, mergers<\/a>, price hikes<\/a>, prices<\/a>, telecom<\/a>, wireless<\/a>
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