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A recent site reader, "salocin411" tried to purchase T-Mobile's $30 prepaid wireless sim starter kit when he ran into a problem I had never seen before, the kit was currently listed as unavailable. After a brief scare that the plan may have been eliminated and a little bit of digging, I uncovered that Wal-Mart simply has a new product number for that plan. On top of that, the new sim starter kit is currently on sale at the lowest price I have ever seen. While the old kit usually listed at between $36-$40, this new kit has a regular price of $39.88. Currently though it is being offered for $29.82! What makes this interesting is that the kit comes with one month of service like the previous one did, however, this kit is actually a few cents cheaper than one month of service alone is. For those of you not familiar with this particular plan, it is a Wal-Mart exclusive plan (only sold at Walmart, but users may also activate devices via T-Mobile online) and it is the service I have been subscribed to for that past couple of years. Plan highlights include:
- 100 minutes of talk, 10c a minute thereafter
- unlimited text and data with the first 5GB being unthrottled 4G LTE
- unlimited international texting from the USA to almost anywhere. T-Mobile doesn't specify exactly what everywhere means here.
- no roaming. This plan does not include T-Mobile's roaming agreements with AT&T and so coverage is more limited compared to some of their other plans.
- Music Freedom is Included (
Updated: 3/9/2016 rumors are circulating that this may no longer be included) Binge On Included
If you are interested in purchasing this plan you can pick up the $30 plan via Walmart's website.
@bestmvnocom:disqus
To your knowledge is this T-Mobile SIM re-usable if service was disconnected and one decides to re-activate with the same SIM down the road?
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I am in the process of renewing my account for the first time. I notice that taxes/fees are being applied to the monthly amount which comes out to a total of $33.08.
Are you being charged this as well with your auto renewal? I haven’t signed up for auto renewal yet.
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Today T-Mobile announced extended coverage and calling across the U.S., Mexico & Canada for all Simple Choice customers at no extra charge. In other words Free Calls, Texts and 4G LTE data in Canada & Mexico will be treated as if you were in the U.S.
Is this plan eligible as well since you are currently on it?
https://www.tmonews.com/2015/07/t-mobiles-mobile-without-borders-will-let-you-use-your-phone-in-canada-and-mexico-without-extra-fees/
My one hesitation with this plan is voice minutes. I don’t normally do hardly any minutes. But i do alot of mobile to mobile with my wife. I am thinking this could totally sink this plan if I add another 400 mins in voice with no FREE mobile to mobile.
uhm, its 4G speed not 4G LTE
Do we know if this plan participates in T-mobile’s FREE MUSIC STREAMING option? Also, probably no DATA ROLLOVER on this plan either.