T-Mobile’s new prepaid $10 per month Connect plan is its cheapest yet
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T-Mobile’s new prepaid $10 per month Connect plan is its cheapest yet
Along with more data for its other Connect plan options
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T-Mobile has refreshed its prepaid Connect plan offerings, including a new $10 per month plan that the company says is its “lowest price smartphone plan ever,” offering customers 1,000 minutes of talk, 1,000 texts, and 1GB of data each month.
The company’s prepaid Connect plans launched in 2020 and were part of T-Mobile’s efforts to butter up regulators to allow its massive merger with Sprint to go through. The original Connect plans included a $15 per month offering for unlimited talk, text, and 2GB of data and a $25 per month option that bumped up data to 5GB a month.
Those tiers are still available today, although the company is bumping up the total data included by 1GB each (for 3GB per month on the $15 plan and 6GB per month on the $25 one), in addition to adding the new $10 offering.
Also new is a $35 per month plan, which (similar to the $15 and $25 tiers) offers unlimited talk and text but has 12GB of data. All four plans don’t include tax in their cost, which is something to consider, but do include access to T-Mobile’s 5G network, too.
The new Connect plans will be available from T-Mobile on Friday, March 25th.
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There are 18 comments.
I’m glad that T-Mobile is bringing back cheap plans. Some customers don’t need that much data, and I feel these plans will be very popular with students and the elderly
Posted on Mar 21, 2022 | 11:56 AM
Mint Mobile offers significantly better plans & runs on T-Mobile’s network.
Posted on Mar 21, 2022 | 1:03 PM
yeah i am impressed with mint mobile pricing especially when you pay yearly.
Posted on Mar 21, 2022 | 1:49 PM
The paying yearly part is its best aspect. A lightweight bill you don’t have to concern yourself with on a regular basis. It just works.
Posted on Mar 21, 2022 | 3:21 PM
I was going to mention that. I’m on their $15/mo unlimited voice/text 4GB plan.
The irony is that they MVNO on T-Mobile. 
Posted on Mar 21, 2022 | 1:53 PM
Not just students and the elderly. Also anyone who is on Wifi most of the time. That’s me. I’m on my phone all the time, but I just looked at my cellular usage, and it was under 2 GB the last 3 months. That $25 plan looks mighty enticing.
Posted on Mar 21, 2022 | 12:33 PM
Since I travel a lot, these plans wouldn’t work for me but would be amazing for my parents.
Posted on Mar 21, 2022 | 12:38 PM
This is fantastic. I’m going to sign up my grandmother for this. She just needs minutes to call us in case of emergency or for us to keep touch with her when she is out of the house. 1000 minutes is more than plenty.
Posted on Mar 21, 2022 | 12:55 PM
I never undserstood how people end up with crazy phone bills.
Everyone has WiFi at home and those that have office jobs probably have WiFi at work as well.
Except for the outliers I don’t see how people go through so much mobile data (alot of apps have offline modes too like netflix,spotify etc.)
I have been on the $25 T-mobile plan for 3 years and its been comfortably enough for me. Now with the data bump I bet I could get away with the $15 plan as well.
Posted on Mar 21, 2022 | 12:41 PM
When my kids were in high school, their friends would make fun of them because I had them on inexpensive prepaid plans whereas the the friends only knew Verizon and AT&T and maybe T-Mobile. It’s obvious that the parents must have been on postpaid plans. Probably carried over from the times before where prepaid was considered only for poor people with no credit. We are all now on Cricket and there were jokes going around on social media about Cricket for a while.
Posted on Mar 21, 2022 | 12:50 PM
Wow, I didn’t realize that your phone bill now counted as a "flex" amongst the cool kids these days, what a waste of money.
If you have a family of 4 then perhaps those post-paid family plans might have better economics. But as an individual like myself pre-paid is the way to roll.
I can’t think of ANY drawbacks, I have 5GUC, I have way more "talk time" and texting then I could every use, and enough data to get through a month no problem. I set up Auto-pay as well..
I bought my iphone with my apple card and have that separately as an installment with 0%interest.
BEST OF ALL, if I ever want to change carriers I’m not locked into any contracts and can change any time I feel like it.
Posted on Mar 21, 2022 | 1:19 PM
When I was in school, the "Flex" was an iPhone over Android, and there were fierce debates on both sides.
Posted on Mar 21, 2022 | 1:27 PM
It wasn’t really a flex but a way to make fun of someone for not having the "name brand."
I have an old Cricket plan where I get 5 lines for $100/month with unlimited talk/text and 10GB of 5G data. The data amount kept getting bumped over the years. I think it started at 2GB. And they also recently got rid of the speed cap.
My brother-in-law is one of those people that believes that you have to pay more for the very best so he’s on a postpaid Verizon plan. Doesn’t want to waste his time chasing deals.
Posted on Mar 21, 2022 | 3:10 PM
Available on eSIM? If so this would make an amazing backup plan.
Posted on Mar 21, 2022 | 12:49 PM
post paid starts at $60
the website even makes finding the pre-paid difficult on purpose
Posted on Mar 21, 2022 | 1:21 PM
T-Mobile Connect plans cut off hard when your data allowance is used up. That’s a bad deal for the average user. T-Mobile used to proclaim it was "ALL IN on Unlimited" and "The era of the data plan is over". Oops, I guess it’s not all-in on unlimited when trying to appease antitrust regulators.
MVNOs like Tello have unlimited throttled data and similar price points: e.g., $10 for 1 GB of high speed data, with unlimited throttled data, text messaging, and voice minutes. That’s a better deal for most users. With throttled data at least you can still do messaging, maps, streaming audio, and VoIP calling. Tello, however has only native T-Mobile coverage (no partner coverage).
Posted on Mar 21, 2022 | 1:26 PM
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