T-Cell’s new Go5G Subsequent plan hides a nasty shock

Earlier this week, T-Cell introduced a brand new ultra-premium plan to its roster. The Go5G Subsequent plan is notable in that it permits you to improve your cellphone yearly as an alternative of as soon as each two years.

At $100 every month for one line, although, it’s now the most costly T-Cell plan and much more expensive than a number of plans from Verizon and AT&T. Nevertheless, with the ability to improve your cellphone every year has a sure attraction for energy customers.

Sadly, T-Cell didn’t disclose every little thing we have to know concerning the Go5G Subsequent plan in its announcement. The oldsters over at The Cell Report discovered that T-Mo plans to tack on a cost of $10 every month for any free traces clients have. This implies long-time T-Mo subscribers with a number of free traces may be caught with hefty month-to-month charges in the event that they resolve to leap on the Go5G Subsequent bandwagon.

T-Cell Go5G Subsequent: Free line prices?

If you happen to’re not conscious, T-Cell makes a behavior out of doing free line promotions. Periodically, T-Cell subscribers can seize a brand new, completely free line for his or her account. There’s a one-time activation charge, however then you definitely get a free line perpetually. What’s extra, you may stack these traces because the promotions occur. As such, there are people on the market with extra free traces than paid ones. Myself, I’ve two paid traces and two free ones.

If I made a decision to improve my Magenta Max plan to the T-Cell Go5G Subsequent plan, my month-to-month invoice would go up by $30 only for the improve after which an additional $20 for these two free traces for a complete of a $50 month-to-month enhance. On high of that, to finest make the most of Subsequent’s finest perk — upgrading a cellphone every year — I would wish to purchase a cellphone on installment, which may very well be round $45 every month for a $1,000 cellphone.

Lengthy story brief, upgrading to Subsequent would trigger my month-to-month invoice to blow up.

Luckily, there’s a chance that T-Cell may rescind this cost free of charge traces earlier than the August 24 rollout date of Go5G Subsequent. The Cell Report discovered this data in leaked inner paperwork, so it’s potential the corporate received’t really institute it. It’s additionally potential T-Cell may waive the charge for sure clients or supply a promotional interval during which the charge can be disregarded.

We’ll know extra on August 24. For now, although, we’d advise anybody with free T-Cell traces to attend and see earlier than signing on the dotted line.