{"id":566946,"date":"2010-05-17T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phonedog.com\/2010\/05\/17\/t-mobile-launches-new-prepaid-plans-starting-at-15\/"},"modified":"2010-05-17T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T16:30:00","slug":"t-mobile-launches-new-prepaid-plans-starting-at-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566946","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile launches new prepaid plans, starting at $15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/5\/105306-T-Mobile.JPG-763755.jpg\" alt=\"T-Mobile store\" width=\"525\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Between Boost Mobile&#8217;s $50 unlimited plan (or $60 if you&#8217;re working with a BlackBerry), StraightTalk&#8217;s offerings, Common Cents Mobile, and the like, the prepaid industry is doing quite well.&nbsp; To that end, T-Mobile today announced two new prepaid plans ___.&nbsp; The &#8220;$15 Per Month Unlimited Text&#8221; plan will offer unlimited text, picture, and video messaging, along with nationwide  calling for $.10 per minute; the &#8220;$50 Per Month Unlimited Talk and Text&#8221; will offer unlimited text, picture, and video messaging, along with unlimited  nationwide calling.<\/p>\n<p>The new plans will be available on Wednesday (the 19th).&nbsp; I have to give T-Mobile a lot of credit here, because I think the two new prepaid plans will do exceptionally well across the board.&nbsp; For the texting teen (who never talks on a regular basis anyway), the $15 monthly plan would make for a perfect &#8211; and cheap &#8211; alternative to adding a line on the family postpaid account.&nbsp; For those that don&#8217;t want to sign a long-term contract, the $50 monthly plan would make for a great option &#8211; and it&#8217;s cheaper than anything I&#8217;ve seen in the postpaid department.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the prepaid battle is in full swing, and people seem to be responding.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be interested to see (a) how the new plans perform in the long-term, and (b) how the postpaid providers respond.&nbsp; Care to render a guess in the comments section?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rV8xqsKCiKgHkiEWqY4txB4S2nI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rV8xqsKCiKgHkiEWqY4txB4S2nI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rV8xqsKCiKgHkiEWqY4txB4S2nI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rV8xqsKCiKgHkiEWqY4txB4S2nI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/DJY0b4UIjD4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between Boost Mobile&#8217;s $50 unlimited plan (or $60 if you&#8217;re working with a BlackBerry), StraightTalk&#8217;s offerings, Common Cents Mobile, and the like, the prepaid industry is doing quite well.&nbsp; To that end, T-Mobile today announced two new prepaid plans ___.&nbsp; The &#8220;$15 Per Month Unlimited Text&#8221; plan will offer unlimited text, picture, and video messaging, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}