Just recently I’ve gone to the T-mobile store for upgrade.
Problem: my charger would not charge my phone or any other of the phones from close friends and family, my battery was fried, sometimes it charges with my grandma charger(currently using)
Suggestion: I decided to either get an upgrade, new phone, new battery and charger, really wanted and upgrade…

Here’s the big problem:
the guy is telling me m contract s expired I say it been over or just about 2 years, they say that I could only get a partial discount(wtf) I don’t believe in partial discount when I go to a store and get a discount it better be a full 50% or 30% etc. turns out if I try to purchase another pink flip Razor it would cost me like $100+same price when it first came out? I do not understand? then if I wanted any of the popular phones (blackberry,sidekicks,dash,etc.) it would cost me like $250-350+ I was just like are you serious? the charger is like $30 who knows the cost of the battery, then on top of those two components I WOULD still need another phone a burnt out razor I’m pissed I’m looking to see about cricket…after reading everyone’s reply about being either prepaid or plan for 5 years with mobile I feel like I will never get on a plan with them, im 18 but I had this phone with the fam since 17 and my older sis had my phone before but gave it to me when she left to another plan in her name…currently my plan is in my grandmas name and it is some hot mess…

Heres the big problem:
the guy is telling me m contract s expired I say it ben over or just about 2 years, they sa that I could only get a partial discount(wtf) I dont believe in partial discount when I go to a store and get a discount it better be a full 50% or 30% etc. turns out if I try to purchase another pink flip RaZR it would cost me like $100+same price when it first came out? I do not understand? then if I wanted any of the popular phones (blackberry,sidekicks,dash,etc.) it would cost me like $250-350+ I was just like are you serious? the charger is like $30 who knows te cost of the battery, then on top of those two componets i WOULD still need another phone a burnt out razr Im pissed Im looking to see about cricket…after reading everyones reply about being either prepaid or plan for 5 years with tmonile I feel like I will never get on a plan with them, im 18 but I had this phone with the fam since 17 and my oldr sis had my phone before but gave it to me when she left to another plan in her name…currently my plan is in my grandmas name and it is some hot mess…

I then tried AT&T/Cingular. The same thing. It is amazing that someone believes that unlimited internet translate into unlimited web browsing. The same with the SMS codes. If you say you provide the same service as contracts at a higher rate, then you should provide that service.

But I find American Mobile provider will lie and tell you anything to get your money.

I am now back with T-Mobile when I visit my family in the US. But I purchase near expiration sim cards off ebay to use for a few dollars. Gives me more voice minutes. I just live without my data services I use here in Europe.

[...] people (especially T-Mobile customers) are currently unaware of the extent of this issue. After a lot of research, and a shitload of digging, I have learned that T-Mobile does not block access to Twitter… “they block access to all “3rd party” SMS shortcodes.”

Except for the ones that they apparently have contracts with… from what i gathered through further emails with their email tech support. I have another post coming soon detailing my continued contact with T-Mobile concerning this matter… It gets better.

Then I noticed in the Google docs that “Note: Google Calendar’s SMS feature isn’t supported by prepaid mobile services in the United States at this time”. And ran across your post, which explains what’s going on.

I guess hardly anybody in the tech support trenches at T-Mobile/etc. knows about this. The sales people are lying to us. That’s dissapointing – having text message alerts would have been useful for my job.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/14/t-mobile-turns-off-twitter/