T-Mobile is offering $10 monthly credit against data usage for the first year of new two-year contracts on June 18, which may or may not be a good deal for fathers, depending on how much they talk on their phones.
But when it comes to phone plans, the devil is in the details. For chatterbox dads, this may be a good deal, but getting the data credit requires an unlimited talk and text plan.
For people who can get by with 500 voice minutes a month, which costs $10 less than the unlimited equivalent, it's actually cheaper to do that and forgo the discount: over the course of the two-year contract, the customer would save $120.
Regardless of the specific plan, there's a good chance that anyone who signs up with T-Mobile on June 18 will be finishing out their contract with AT&T. If AT&T's controversial proposed acquisition of T-Mobile is approved by regulators, today's new customers will also have to ride out the potentially bumpy transition as the two companies merge their operations.
Some current T-Mobile customers fear that their carrier's customer service will suffer if that happens. Since the acquisition will open up AT&T's network to current T-Mobile users, it should theoretically improve coverage.
But the flow of AT&T users onto infrastructure previously used only by T-Mobile customers could mean a lot more network congestion, with slower data speeds and more dropped calls. Nothing is certain, and the user experience would likely vary from region to region.
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