T-Mobile launches Home Internet Backup plan

06 June 2024
It's mean to save you when your primary connection goes out.

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Dani.2077, 06 Jun 2024Big country = big problems 😀. Commenters should consider ... moreIt's absurd because you can instantly switch cellular plans. There's no point paying extra before you need it.

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    Dani.2077, 06 Jun 2024Big country = big problems 😀. Commenters should consider ... moreMegaCities already used up all last of remaining .cn technology left in the USA national reserve.

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      • 07 Jun 2024

      I was considering Home Internet with TMobile up till last month, after receiving a nasty text raising my cell plan even with price lock guarantee.....no more of my money will go to tmobile ever again...

        Screw that! I just hotspot my phone. Was down about 6 hours last week via a huge thunderstorm. Hot spotting got me through it without problem.

          Big country = big problems 😀.
          Commenters should consider that their country is HUGE, and outside of megacities cable internet is generally mediocre. I have talked to a lot of people stuck in various unknown small towns and farms, who pay some insane monthly internet fees of 50 MB, which, on top of that, stops when it wants to. So these people "invented the wheel" with Starlink - high speed (for them) and constant connection 🎉 .

            MeganeKun, 06 Jun 2024Heres what doesnt make sense.... You can just use hotspot o... moreIf you have kids with tablets, game consoles, TV, and work laptop, that hotspot is going to choke for your monthly quota (for T-Mobile, I want to say that after 25GB, you get deprioritized). This is made so that everything can function as usual even if the Internet goes down. At least it saves the battery of your hotspot-capable device.

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              • 06 Jun 2024

              Heres what doesnt make sense.... You can just use hotspot on ur phone plan when the internet goes out at home.... How often do you expect ur ISP to have an outage.... You're spending about $360 a year to protect yourself from like a 1-7 day internet outage that is modestly fixable if you just use ur mobile hotspot plan that you're already paying for...

                T-Mobile surveys current TMHI customers. Several months ago I did a survey that asked me how I use the service.

                A lot of people got the $25 off discount and use TMHI as a backup already, and others with limited options use it as a primary.

                $30 for 130 GB isn't bad, but $25 for unlimited is good.

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                  atichko, 06 Jun 2024If the wired connection goes out of service several time a ... moreHow are they extorting money? they don't offer wired connections, they are a WIRELESS company. If a customer has a crappy wired connection and needs a backup, this is for them. Think before you speak man

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                    atichko, 06 Jun 2024If the wired connection goes out of service several time a ... moreTelecoms always treat their "home" service as a lame excuse to rip off rural customers with spotty internet.

                    Because they can.

                      If the wired connection goes out of service several time a month, wouldn't it make more sense to fix the wired connection instead of extorting more money out of the pockets of customers by offering a back-up connection? A back-up is off course useful if you're addicted to the world wide web as a private person or if you have a business depending on it but 30 dollars a month isn't cheap for something that isn't going to run all the time (if it would, go find another operator because then the one you have sucks big time). At home, if I have an outage once a year then it's already a lot meaning that paying 30 bucks would be a wast of money, even if I telework often.

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