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T-Mobile Will Pay Off Your iPhone If You Switch From Verizon

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T-Mobile today introduced a limited time promotion to encourage Verizon customers with select iPhone models to switch to their network.

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Starting May 31, when a Verizon customer with an iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, or iPhone SE brings their smartphone to T-Mobile, they'll be able to keep the device, and have any remaining monthly payments owing towards it paid off in full, whether it's $1 or $1,000.

The catch is that Verizon customers will be required to pay $15 per month for T-Mobile's Premium Device Protection Plus insurance program in addition to their new T-Mobile ONE plan. The insurance program protects an iPhone from loss, theft, and accidental damage.

A spokesperson for T-Mobile told MacRumors that the usual AppleCare+ perks of the Premium Device Protection Plus plan are not included since the iPhones switched over aren't purchased as new.

The offer will be available at T-Mobile stores across the United States next week. T-Mobile says the balance of any remaining device payments will be provided in the form of a digital prepaid MasterCard in approximately 15 to 30 days. Customers must remain with T-Mobile for 60+ days after switching.

Top Rated Comments

keysofanxiety Avatar
123 months ago
It's worth clarifying that this deal is only applicable if you've had the contract for 60+ days.

Otherwise somebody could get a Verizon contract, then immediately take it to T-Mob and have a new iPhone for $15 a month. So if you were thinking of doing that, don't! :)
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
MrXiro Avatar
123 months ago
It's like saying, "Great, I'm saving money...but I have no service!" My wife still holds it against me for switching her to T-MOBILE. Can we say "failed experiment"?
As per usual with mobile phones YMMV. Sorry that T-mo isn't good in your area. Where I live it works well and getting better every year. I now have service in places I used to get 0 bars.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
HaywireTX Avatar
123 months ago
It's like saying, "Great, I'm saving money...but I have no service!" My wife still holds it against me for switching her to T-MOBILE. Can we say "failed experiment"?
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
123 months ago
I used to bag on T-Mobile like you. I had ATT and was an arrogant prick, always mocking T-Mobile "lol can and a string!"

Then I actually got T-Mobile. They've come a super long way and I have zero regrets. I have blazing fast service literally everywhere I go (~4 states in the mountain west).

Their recent auction winning means their service is aggressively being built. I know they have said "were getting better guys!" for years, but this time it's legit.

https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-and-blogs/tmobile-spectrum-auction-win.htm

Better hop on a plan, which they won't force you out of, while they are still cheap. $70 with no taxes is a super good deal...$100 for 2 lines is smoking.

Or not. Whatever makes you happy. Just know they aren't a two can and string network any longer. The internet memes are outdated.
Problem is, T-Mobile coverage still isn't great in the outlying areas. I was on T-Mobile for three days about a month ago, but a set of tin cans and string would have given me better coverage out here where I—and a few thousand other people—work (near the Golden Spike). I moved to T-Mobile from Sprint and found that at my house, their network was roughly 1,500x faster. That's no exaggeration, Sprint really has sunken that low here in Utah!

After sitting at my desk here at work for 10 hours without so much as a single bar of service, I decided it was time to drop T-Mobile. Sure they just won a bunch of low-band spectrum, but as I was told by a T-Mobile tech, "Unfortunately, even with the new spectrum auction winnings, it could be months, if not years, before the new signals cover the entire US." Verizon is a lot more expensive, but at least I have coverage right now where it matters most (to me).
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
coolbreeze Avatar
123 months ago
It's like saying, "Great, I'm saving money...but I have no service!" My wife still holds it against me for switching her to T-MOBILE. Can we say "failed experiment"?
I used to bag on T-Mobile like you. I had ATT and was an arrogant prick, always mocking T-Mobile "lol can and a string!"

Then I actually got T-Mobile. They've come a super long way and I have zero regrets. I have blazing fast service literally everywhere I go (~4 states in the mountain west).

Their recent auction winning means their service is aggressively being built. I know they have said "were getting better guys!" for years, but this time it's legit.

https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-and-blogs/tmobile-spectrum-auction-win.htm

Better hop on a plan, which they won't force you out of, while they are still cheap. $70 with no taxes is a super good deal...$100 for 2 lines is smoking.

Or not. Whatever makes you happy. Just know they aren't a two can and string network any longer. The internet memes are outdated.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
MsRandall Avatar
123 months ago
Interesting

While I am happy with Verizon my newly engaged son would be able to move from my plan to his own plan and keep iphone 7 plus
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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