T-Mobile is Lying About Its Essentials Plan

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00:00 - Intro
00:22 - What Is Premium Data?
00:51 - T-Mobile is Lying
1:35 - T-Mobile Did Something Sneaky
2:35 - True Data Priority Levels on T-Mobile
3:40 - Is T-Mobile Essentials Worth It for Single Lines?
5:04 - Is T-Mobile Essentials Worth It for Families?

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[antitheist]

Props to this guy for doing the hard work and calling out networks with proof.

[StephenMarquez]

picture this: Stetson makes an OnlyFans and all the content is him exposing cell carriers being naughty.

[TW---]

It's so ironic we can buy phones with 4K screens but yet all carriers on anything but the top plan throttles video playback to 480p. Thank goodness for home Wi-Fi.

[ecbyzfw]

He's exposing T-Mobile...yet I'm getting a T-Mobile ad as soon as I click on the video 😂😂😂😂😂

[el_blaxicano]

I've worked at a tmobile store for 3 years, never have I switched someone over and put them on the essentials plan. even when potential new customers ask about it. Ive only sold 2 accounts on the essentials plan bc that's what they wanted and I couldn't convince them otherwise

[daful]

I'm on T-Mobile Essentials so I'd say this has been rather enlightening. I'm going to look into switching this month. Thank you

[jeffmeister]

Still worth it for me, I'm taking advantage of their current buy one iPhone 13 get the 2nd free, also I can trade my (family) two iPhones 11 even for 2 iphones 13 at the end of the day I'll be paying $25/month more what I would be paying for the phones alone, when the phones are paid in 24 months I'll downgrade it to the prepaid connect at $15/month per line.

[thereeltbell]

I have two lines on essentials and for me it’s fine for now. I tried switching to Magenta and was told by three different customer service reps that’s it’s the same speeds and I would be wasting my money if I upgraded. I then thought if it’s the same data speeds for Magenta, Max, and essentials, why would you have different plans if the more expensive ones aren’t better?

[alphabanks]

I've been a T-Mobile customer for 18 years and I'm on a legacy Simple Choice North America plan. From what I've heard Essentials is very close to the old legacy plans I normally pull 117 Mbps down/8.14 Mbps up. I plan on moving over to Essentials in order to save money I do not like over paying for bills. I will keep a n eye on the data speeds after I switch plans.

[SmarchitectMann]

I've had the prepaid plan for years now. It went from a $100 to $80, then down to $50, and I believe it's still fluctuating. I've always had an inclination that family plans slow down speeds.

[AyearoldARAB]

Company went to shit when John left. I have switched to att.

[Tyler_ThaTruth]

Funny how I just left t mobile because I could tell they were lying, and my data was slow as hell even though I wasn’t over my limit

[frank-bmtz]

That's why I never sell this plan to customers. Same with Base Essentials. Magenta is the way to go. An average person will blow through 20 GB. Essentials comes with 20GB high speed data, not 50.

[evanmoffatt]

It’s not exactly deprioritizing essentials customers. Premium data gets confusing if you don’t know what you’re looking for. Thus why they changed the “definition”. Priority data is essentially the same thing as data for prepaids. You have a certain amount of high speed data each month and when you use it all, it is slowed down. Just like Magenta gets 100GB of premium data. Magenta Max does not have premium data which means no slow downs. ATT and Verizon are the same way.

[TW---]

Please do a vid on the Tmo Home Internet. I had to return it because of deprioritization. Speeds during peak times was terrible. I was told by a corporate store employee the device is deprioritized below magenta max customers. I had a feeling $50/month for truly unlimited data was too good to be true.

[doomy_doomy]

I work for Spectrum and it would be awesome if you could but our network to the test. We are supposed to be prioritized on their network and have the same speeds as regular Verizon customers.

[napnemeanix]

I always stay connected on my Wi-Fi and barely use my phone when outside

[mikerotch]

I have full signal at my house on essentials, as soon as I get on YouTube, it drops to 1 bar and doesn't load shit. I can't even make phone calls without it breaking up every few seconds.

[uionrfp]

What is the best plan for traveling I do a lot of driver for work far away an I need best covered an not slow data don’t mind payin a lot was thinking ab Verizon 80 dollar plan but not sure I have AT&T 75 plan but I lose a lot of service on the highway and is every slow

[Thronnos]

As someone who works at T-Mobile I can easily say Essentials is not worth it. It's 60+Tax, taxes are about $8. You can get Magenta for 70 including taxes. And the benefits you get between them is absolutely night and day. Literally essentials is only there for those who don't understand how the billing works and can't see past the $60