{"id":2971,"date":"2014-09-27T14:25:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T19:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2014-09-27T14:25:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T19:25:14","slug":"t-mobile-usa-payg-gets-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/09\/27\/t-mobile-usa-payg-gets-worse","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile USA PAYG gets worse&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in August, I wrote about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/08\/27\/t-mobile-usa-changes-their-pay-as-you-go-plans\">T-Mobile USA changes their pay-as-you-go plans<\/a>. It is even worse than it seems.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m back again this month, and find that if I want to change to the $3\/day unlimited calls\/text\/data plan, I have to wait till the <strong>next month<\/strong>\u00a0(i.e. the next billing cycle). Previously this would just work immediately, as long as I changed it online.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My options to get data now? Pay $10 for a 1-week High Speed Data Pass with up to 1GB of traffic to utilise. There\u2019s also a $5 day pass.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>T-Mobile reminds me of my experience with DiGi. Both were underdogs. Once they get more market-share (in T-Mobile\u2019s case, maybe a better network\/selling the iPhone; in DiGi\u2019s case finally getting a 3G license back in the day), they just can\u2019t handle the load, and graduate from their underdog status to being worse than the incumbents. I\u2019m still a T-Mobile &amp; DiGi customer, but the question is for how long more?<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20T-Mobile%20USA%20PAYG%20gets%20worse...&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2014%2F09%2F27%2Ft-mobile-usa-payg-gets-worse&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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It is even worse than it seems. I\u2019m back again this month, and find that if I want to change to the $3\/day unlimited calls\/text\/data plan, I have to wait till the next month\u00a0(i.e. the next billing cycle). Previously this would just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20T-Mobile%20USA%20PAYG%20gets%20worse...&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2014%2F09%2F27%2Ft-mobile-usa-payg-gets-worse&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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It was a brilliant service \u2013 you turn on unlimited calls & data (200MB at high speeds, and then it goes down to 2G speeds) when you\u2019re in town for a mere USD$3\/day. If you can live with 2G\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1341,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/19\/maxis-broadband-rm99-mobile-unltimited-or-rm143-maxis-broadband","url_meta":{"origin":2971,"position":1},"title":"Maxis Broadband: RM99 mobile unltimited or RM143 Maxis Broadband?","date":"19\/2\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The fun with Maxis Broadband continues. I last wrote about the real story behind Maxis Broadband, which apparently is quite a favourite amongst Google searches. Today, @hantu asks on Twitter: $99 mobile unlimited or $138 maxis broadband?. Lets delve into this a little deeper. 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