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Legere really turned around TMobile and changed the industry by getting rid of contracts and doing better prices.

by samfisher83 7y ago

radicaldreamer 7y ago
I think the free global data was a game changer for so many... he also brought back unlimited plans for the US market
- nojvek 7y ago
  I was on AT&T and their roaming charged me $600 because I accidentally left it on, on a Vancouver trip for a day. They did refund some of that, but T-mobile's free roaming with 4G speeds is a game changer. Overall T-Mobile has the best bang for buck if you live in an area where they have coverage. Although US carriers are sometimes quite behind what other countries offer. I am constantly blown away at how cheap and fast cellular internet is in India with Jio. Or south korea, or japan. Asian countries make US look like a joke when it comes to internet speed and cellular technology.
- alxndr 7y ago
  T-Mobile's free data and texting in many countries is the primary reason I stick with them despite being able to find lower prices and better coverage elsewhere.
ocdtrekkie 7y ago
Legere repackaged contracts slightly and sold it as snake oil. For the vast majority of customers, their contracts had the exact same impact. A two-year payment plan (which is, you guessed it, a "contract") on the phone which "immediately becomes due" if you cancel your plan is identical to the early termination fee that had previously been offered by everyone else, just in a slightly less bundled fashion. If, like most people, you were buying a phone from your carrier, the cost at early termination was near identical. Verizon's ETF already reduced each month left on your phone's upgrade period, just like a phone payment plan would have. Legere's a Jobsian marketing genius, but only because he managed to sell people the status quo as something new.
- LeoPanthera 7y ago
  I don’t buy this. Unlimited data, free international roaming (with data!), and you can bring your own phone to any plan. T-Mobile was very different and I hope it stays that way.
  - bogomipz 7y ago
    >"Unlimited data, free international roaming (with data!), and you can bring your own phone to any plan." A couple of years ago an American company I worked for had T-mobile phones with a plan that included the free international roaming. This international roaming was 2G data by default. In many countries we had to visit these data plans for internet access were simply unusable because they were so slow. Opening pages a browser would simply time out. This would happen in large countries China, Australia and many European countries as well. The company ended up ditching T-Mobile as a result. While it was free in the sense that it allowed them to advertise it as such it was not functional.
    - forrestthewoods 7y ago
      I’ve travelled extensively T-Mobile free international data and it’s AMAZING. Europe, South America, and Africa. Yes it’s slow. No I wouldn’t do business with it. But holy shit the difference in “slow data” and “no data” is approximately infinite.
      - bogomipz 7y ago
        Yes and in China, most of South East Asia, all of Australia, all of India and nearly all the Middle East its NOT AMAZING as its completely unusable. It's also NOT AMAZING in many counties in Europe, such as Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and the Czech Republic from personal experience. Ditto for Urugay, Brazil and Bolivia in South America. So no you can't really just call out all of Europe and Africa and South America and say it's amazing. When the alternative is to simply pop a local SIM into your phone and get working internet for the same $15 dollars it costs for the T-Mobile One World Plan what's the point exactly?

Legere really turned around TMobile and changed the industry by getting rid of contracts and doing better prices.

radicaldreamer 7y ago

I think the free global data was a game changer for so many... he also brought back unlimited plans for the US market

nojvek 7y ago
I was on AT&T and their roaming charged me $600 because I accidentally left it on, on a Vancouver trip for a day. They did refund some of that, but T-mobile's free roaming with 4G speeds is a game changer. Overall T-Mobile has the best bang for buck if you live in an area where they have coverage. Although US carriers are sometimes quite behind what other countries offer. I am constantly blown away at how cheap and fast cellular internet is in India with Jio. Or south korea, or japan. Asian countries make US look like a joke when it comes to internet speed and cellular technology.
alxndr 7y ago
T-Mobile's free data and texting in many countries is the primary reason I stick with them despite being able to find lower prices and better coverage elsewhere.

ocdtrekkie 7y ago

Legere repackaged contracts slightly and sold it as snake oil. For the vast majority of customers, their contracts had the exact same impact. A two-year payment plan (which is, you guessed it, a "contract") on the phone which "immediately becomes due" if you cancel your plan is identical to the early termination fee that had previously been offered by everyone else, just in a slightly less bundled fashion. If, like most people, you were buying a phone from your carrier, the cost at early termination was near identical. Verizon's ETF already reduced each month left on your phone's upgrade period, just like a phone payment plan would have. Legere's a Jobsian marketing genius, but only because he managed to sell people the status quo as something new.

LeoPanthera 7y ago
I don’t buy this. Unlimited data, free international roaming (with data!), and you can bring your own phone to any plan. T-Mobile was very different and I hope it stays that way.
- bogomipz 7y ago
  >"Unlimited data, free international roaming (with data!), and you can bring your own phone to any plan." A couple of years ago an American company I worked for had T-mobile phones with a plan that included the free international roaming. This international roaming was 2G data by default. In many countries we had to visit these data plans for internet access were simply unusable because they were so slow. Opening pages a browser would simply time out. This would happen in large countries China, Australia and many European countries as well. The company ended up ditching T-Mobile as a result. While it was free in the sense that it allowed them to advertise it as such it was not functional.
  - forrestthewoods 7y ago
    I’ve travelled extensively T-Mobile free international data and it’s AMAZING. Europe, South America, and Africa. Yes it’s slow. No I wouldn’t do business with it. But holy shit the difference in “slow data” and “no data” is approximately infinite.
    - bogomipz 7y ago
      Yes and in China, most of South East Asia, all of Australia, all of India and nearly all the Middle East its NOT AMAZING as its completely unusable. It's also NOT AMAZING in many counties in Europe, such as Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and the Czech Republic from personal experience. Ditto for Urugay, Brazil and Bolivia in South America. So no you can't really just call out all of Europe and Africa and South America and say it's amazing. When the alternative is to simply pop a local SIM into your phone and get working internet for the same $15 dollars it costs for the T-Mobile One World Plan what's the point exactly?