T-Mobile Early Termination Fee Improvements

June 24, 2008 – 2:30 pm

On Monday T-Mobile made it official that they will be providing their customers with greater flexibility within their plans. So what do they mean by this? This just means that they will be reducing the costs of their early termination fees or ETFs.

Starting on June 28th customers of T-Mobile with a one year or two year contract will see their early termination fee drop from $200 to $100 if they end their contract with 91 to 180 days left on their contract. If they end a contract with less than 91 days left on it, they will pay a termination of fee of $50. Finally for customers who terminate their service in the last 30 days of their contract will either pay the $50 fee or their monthly subscription rate, depending on which one is less.

To go along with the early termination fee changes T-Mobile has also announced some plan changes.

  • T-Mobile FlexPaySM: A program that offers customers access to nationwide long-distance calling and roaming, the latest phones, and T-Mobile’s great rate plans including myFavesSM — all without having to commit to a long-term service agreement or make a hefty deposit.
  • Prepaid Plans: Flexible plans that give customers the freedom to communicate with no annual contract, no credit checks and no monthly bills. Prepaid options include:
    • Pay By The Day: Recently introduced, this option costs $1 per day only on days when the phone is used. In exchange, customers get unlimited T-Mobile-to-T-Mobile calling all day and unlimited nationwide calling from 7 p.m. to 6:59 a.m. All other domestic calls are just 10¢ per minute and text messages are 10¢ to send and 5¢ to receive.
    • Pay As You Go (previously named T-Mobile To Go): Customers can purchase minutes as they need them. Customers who purchase $100 in refills become Gold Rewards members and receive 15 percent more minutes on all future refills.
    • Sidekick Prepaid (previously named Sidekick To Go): T-Mobile Sidekick® fans receive unlimited domestic e-mailing, Web browsing, instant messaging, and text messaging for $1 per day, and nationwide calling costs just 15¢ per minute.

For more information on these changes you can read T-Mobile’s official press release here.

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  1. 3 Responses to “T-Mobile Early Termination Fee Improvements”

  2. By anna on Jul 12, 2008

    note that the changes to the early termination fees only apply to NEW contracts. If you signed up for a contract under the old $200-until-the-end rules, that still applies to you now.

  3. By Marita Hansley on Jul 16, 2008

    This is horrible. I have 5 months left on my two year contract and was told I would have to pay$100 per phone to end contract now. That is $200.00 . My daughter has a broken phone. This means we only qualify for a discount on a new phone. I will pay approx $400.00 in the next five months for service or end early and pay $200.00, plus go with a new company, pay set up fees and pay more. What help is tmobile. I can’t wait to complete the contract and move on to At and T or some like the new mcs plan

  4. By Klos on Jul 31, 2008

    Thats Stupid…they ended my contract and force me to pay the 200 dollars…but I haven’t payed yet!!! Fuck Them!!!

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