That strongly suggests nothing good will come out of this secretive announcement, which is where a source with T-Mobile‘s leadership comes in.
Should you brace yourself for a price hike?
This prediction is based on private discussions with several employees, almost all of whom share the feeling that they’re being prepared to deal with a massive wave of customer complaints starting Thursday, March 13. The feeling that a new price hike is in the cards is actually nothing new, but the incentives and overtime pay offered across multiple departments this week suggest a storm is brewing essentially as we speak.
T-Mobile + Sprint = price hikes after five years. | Image Credit — PhoneArena
Our source’s suspicions were initially raised last year, when they were made privy to a number of internal training documents that mentioned the same date – April 2025. Apparently, the “Un-carrier” is only obligated under the terms of its 2020 merger agreement to “honor certain legacy Sprint plans” until next month, and if history is any indication, that almost surely means those plans will have their monthly rates increased… in April.
Unfortunately, we can’t publicly reveal these documents for fear of outing our source (and the source’s sources), so you’ll just have to trust us when we tell you that they look legit.
Can tomorrow’s announcement be about something else?
Yes, there is definitely still a chance that T-Mobile will not announce a price increase for anyone… just yet. But the timing of these incentives offered to customer care employees simply fits that April 2025 cutoff date for Magenta Complete plans too nicely for it all to be a coincidence.
T-Mobile could try to soften the blow of rolling out another price so soon after the last with some sort of a positive Starlink announcement. | Image Credit — T-Mobile
One possibility bandied about by an employee is that T-Mo could pair the price hike news with an announcement of a “Starlink plan” of some sort, which would obviously increase the volume of customer care calls even further while potentially reducing the online negativity and bitterness surrounding the operator’s latest profit-hungry change.
With Starlink access already set to be included in the top-of-the-line Go5G Next plan for free and cost $15 a month on “any other plan”, it’s unclear how such a move would work, but until we hear directly from T-Mobile, we should probably keep all options on the table and rule nothing out (negative or positive).
Source: Phone Arena
