Let me briefly explain my frustrations and excitement...
I am a BIG T-Mobile
fan (and still is) and was a customer of T-Mobile since 9th grade in high
school. Since the iPhone 4 was released I was hoping and praying that T-Mobile
would be given the opportunity to sell Apple's iPhone and make it available on
their network. During that time I was getting tired of the constant Android and
Blackberry OS platform that dominated the mobile device world (aside from
Blackberry downfall in their OS system.). Some say that Apple's iOS is boring
and the Android "Jelly Bean" platform is more interesting but for me
that wasn't true.
After spending about
$500 for switching from T-Mobile network (in which I still owe $300+ left to
pay and recently missed a payment) to Sprint network and to hear 2-3 months
later that T-Mobile will be getting Apple's iPhone 4, 4s and 5 when my contract
ended in December of 2013; I was highly annoyed. T-Mobile and I have this
love/hate relationship on Twitter. Anyhoo, Sprint has good customer service but
at some in-store service centers I do believe that the staff has racist
undertones to their staff; that's just from my experience.
I'm excited that
T-Mobile is receiving the iPhone because it will bring sales, customers and a
better network. It took them a while to get it I think because of legal actions
between AT&T and Apple didn't want to give T-Mobile the satisfaction (from
what I've heard) and didn't want to reduce the functionality of their phone and
make an alternate version of it as well. From a business point of view I
completely understand.
I chose this article
to blog about because I had complex emotions about it. What can I say; I get
kind of emotional when it comes to technology and money. Very geeky right? Lol!
All jokes aside I thought that this was very exciting news for T-Mobile, the
brand and for their loyal customers. I may not be a T-Mobile contract customer
anymore but I do support their business (even though their service stores are
as dry as the Sahara desert. Their in-store staff is very humble, friendly,
inviting and humorous.).
If you don't believe me just read the article by clicking HERE
I know what you mean, Johnathan! I am also a T-mobile user and enjoy their low costs and no-contract plans. I had been waiting for iPhone for quite some time to come to Tmobile, but while waiting have since fallen in love with Android. I have a Galaxy s3 and could not be happier.
ReplyDeleteSomething to stay on the lookout for if looking to switch back to Tmobile however, is that I recently spoke to an in store representative and she told me that within the next year Tmobile will be stopping their "discounted phones with plan" services. To elaborate, most phone companies phones when new cost $500 - $600, but if you sign up for a 2 year contract, you can get the phone for $200. Tmobile is planning on getting rid of this in lieu of cheaper overall plans, but the customer will have to pay full retail price for the phones... so if you don't have $500 sitting around when you sign up for Tmobile to buy a phone, you might be out of luck!
Yeah, The contracts was very beneficial to customers but i'm quite sure that the prices will be reduced at some point because of the merger with MetroPCS. MetroPCS service doesn't have contracts; you just pay a reduced retail price for their phones. That's where that idea came from.
DeleteInteresting.. I'll have to keep up to date with it! Thanks!
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