T-Mobile Just Put Sprint’s ‘Framily’ Plans To Shame

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Anything Sprint tries to do, T-Mobile is determined to try to do better. T-Mobile on Monday unveiled a new family plan that will cost $100 per month for four separate lines and offer a total of 10GB of LTE data, or 2.5GB per line. In contrast, Sprint’s most comparable “Framily” plan costs $160 per month and offers a mere 4GB of data total, or 1GB per line. You can get an unlimited-data Sprint “Framily” plan, of course, but it will cost a total of $240 per month since the unlimited option costs an extra $20 per line.

The T-Mobile plan also looks pretty good when compared to similar plans from AT&T and Verizon — both of those carriers will give you 10GB of data total for four lines but they’ll charge you $160 per month for it. The one big caveat to the T-Mobile plan is that while Verizon and AT&T let you share your data across all your lines as you see fit, T-Mobile is restricting it to 2.5GB per line, meaning that if you go over 2.5GB on your line you’ll get throttled down to slower speeds even if others on your plan are well under their 2.5GB thresholds.
All the same, T-Mobile won’t charge you overage fees for exceeding your data caps so this plan really does seem like a sweet deal no matter how you slice it. Be sure to check out T-Mobile’s chart comparing deals across different carriers below.

 

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UPDATE: Brad Molen has spotted some fine print for the new T-Mobile plan — apparently it will only offer 10GB of data for the first 16 months, after which it will go down to 4GB per month, much like Sprint’s “Framily” plan. That said, this still looks like a better deal at $100 per month, even if the 10GB monthly allotment only lasts for a year and four months.

 

[AWS]

I have Sprint Framily with 5 phones. I get unlimited data because I was grandfathered in when the plan I'd been on for the last 15 years was discontinued. I to pay a fee for mobile hotspot on my phone only.

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

I've been with T-Mobile since 1998. I have a family plan with four lines but it's costing me $230. with unlimited text, talk and data.

 

[AWS]

I am changing when my contract comes up in October. I don't know who I'll go with, but, it will probably be AT&T. I would go with T-Mobile if they had 4G in my area or if it worked at all down on the farm in Indiana.

I've been through the good days with Sprint and the bad. I get solid 4G every where I go. The problem is they turned on the new network in Chicago and while it is fast as hell the frequencies they use don't penetrate buildings very well. So in my office I have to position myself in one spot or calls drop and data is less than 56K modem speed. This started happening a few months ago when they turned on Spark in Chicago. Outside or in my house it rocks. Dropping business calls makes the decision to switch easy.

I dislike Verizon. I had them for a year as a test to use along side Sprint and while the network is great the overages and throttled speeds made me drop them. My son as AT&T and he loves it.

 

[Rich-M]

My problem with T-Mobile and Sprint is they work here but very spotty. Best reception is Verizon and I would rather have nothing then deal with those clowns so the next best is ATT. I just got an offer on my existing ATT plan online which almost cut us almost in half what we were paying. I notice the "Rollover Minutes" were gone but I went for the money. So Linda and I with unlimited data pay $105 a month for the two and I had been paying $180 and bitching every month.

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

I'm going to contact T-Mobile this week and see what type of deal they are willing to give me. I haven't been under contract with them for 26 months now and I've been with them faithfully since '98. Since I am free to go with another carrier if I choose, I'll see what their customer retention program has to offer.