Before T-Mobile acquired Sprint, activists, consumer groups, and deal critics (including me) warned repeatedly that the telecom sector megadeal would result in layoffs, less competition, higher prices, and a lower quality product overall. The Trump FCC and DOJ very clearly didn’t care; they rubber stamped the deal without even reading deal impact reports.
I was on t mo’s “top tier” magenta max plan.
Now, you can’t even get very good deals on a trade in phone with that plan because they created something else to phase out magenta max. I think the only benefit over magenta max is like 10GB more hotspot data. 50 instead of 40.
But you need that plan (which of course, is more expensive) if you want the same types of trade in deals you used to get on Max.
Neither which really affects me too much, because I haven’t gotten a phone through a carrier plan in like a decade. My 4 year old current phone isn’t going away any time soon, either. The last descent phone with a micro sd card slot. Note 20 Ultra.
Things started going downhill after Legere stepped down from CEO
But yea, I’m not too affected by trade in deals either, but for different reasons. I just keep “jumping” every year lmao except for the phone I had prior to this one, it currently sits as my longest in use phone at 2.5 years and mostly just because I was committed to having a foldy for my next phone, but had to wait for the pixel fold to drop because I CANNOT stand Samshit phones in general, but also Samshits foldy offering is WAY too narrow lol