T-Cellular’s new Go5G Subsequent plan hides a nasty shock

Earlier this week, T-Cellular introduced a brand new ultra-premium plan to its roster. The Go5G Subsequent plan is notable in that it means that you can improve your cellphone yearly as a substitute of as soon as each two years.

At $100 every month for one line, although, it’s now the most costly T-Cellular plan and much more pricey than plenty of plans from Verizon and AT&T. Nonetheless, having the ability to improve your cellphone annually has a sure attraction for energy customers.

Sadly, T-Cellular didn’t disclose every part we have to know concerning the Go5G Subsequent plan in its announcement. The parents over at The Cellular Report discovered that T-Mo plans to tack on a cost of $10 every month for any free strains clients have. This implies long-time T-Mo subscribers with a number of free strains is perhaps caught with hefty month-to-month charges in the event that they resolve to leap on the Go5G Subsequent bandwagon.

T-Cellular Go5G Subsequent: Free line fees?

In case you’re not conscious, T-Cellular makes a behavior out of doing free line promotions. Periodically, T-Cellular subscribers can seize a brand new, completely free line for his or her account. There’s a one-time activation price, however you then get a free line eternally. What’s extra, you may stack these strains because the promotions occur. As such, there are people on the market with extra free strains than paid ones. Myself, I’ve two paid strains and two free ones.

If I made a decision to improve my Magenta Max plan to the T-Cellular Go5G Subsequent plan, my month-to-month invoice would go up by $30 only for the improve after which an additional $20 for these two free strains for a complete of a $50 month-to-month enhance. On prime of that, to finest make the most of Subsequent’s finest perk — upgrading a cellphone annually — I would want to purchase a cellphone on installment, which may very well be round $45 every month for a $1,000 cellphone.

Lengthy story quick, upgrading to Subsequent would trigger my month-to-month invoice to blow up.

Fortuitously, there’s a chance that T-Cellular might rescind this cost free of charge strains earlier than the August 24 rollout date of Go5G Subsequent. The Cellular Report discovered this info in leaked inside paperwork, so it’s potential the corporate received’t truly institute it. It’s additionally potential T-Cellular might waive the price for sure clients or provide a promotional interval during which the price can be disregarded.

We’ll know extra on August 24. For now, although, we’d advise anybody with free T-Cellular strains to attend and see earlier than signing on the dotted line.