“T‑Mobile will never change the price you pay for your T‑Mobile ONE plan.” That was the promise. The Un-contract. The whole reason millions of customers picked the magenta team over Verizon and AT&T in the first place. Now T-Mobile is retiring legacy 3G and 4G-era plans — Magenta, ONE, Simple Choice — and automatically moving customers onto “modern” 5G plans at higher monthly costs. Billing changes hit mid-July for the current wave. The company that swore it would never surprise you with a rate hike just sent the notification.
I pay like $6 a month to Tello.
I pay about 3x that to US Mobile so I can use mobile data for all my devices. I hotspot or Bluetooth-tether for everything and intentionally have no ISP-provided home Internet so I can save money and also avoid those crooks.