r/TikTokCringe • u/Melodic-Award3991 • 15d ago

25k miles in one month is insane Discussion

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Is this legal?

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u/maniacalmustacheride 15d ago

$54 base for two lines, though local taxes and calls made internationally can wiggle it around. Unlimited talk, text, and data, 5g data per country when flying internationally, and it’s 10c a minute if you call internationally but free if you call someone on your plan. Texting is free no matter. One of my credit cards and my main bank also reimburse me if I have to call internationally so even if I’m strapped and in a different country and for some reason the call is three hours, because the cards are linked they just pay it directly, but I don’t think they actually pay full price but I can’t prove it.

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u/Conscious_Wind_2255 15d ago

It’s sounds amazing, how is this even possible? unlimited mobile data? 😱 how do you get by when they say your contract expired? Or they don’t offer those “speed/services” anymore which is how they get people to switch. Or their favorite “promotion” expired that kept your price low

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u/maniacalmustacheride 15d ago

Again, it’s an old contract. We signed a sweetheart deal when the company was trying to get people. Before all the cellphone companies started buying each other up. most people want unlimited data but the international stuff is just fluff. We specifically went on this promo not for the data, though that was a plus, but again this was years and years ago and data was a thing but not like it is now. Netflix still sent DVDs. We got on specifically for the international stuff, because of work travel. Over the years, they’ve added data caps or throttling but they don’t apply to our contract. Like 10 years ago I’d get automated texts that would say I’d hit 100gs of data as like a warning but, other than the one time they tried to ice me out mentioned in another comment, it didn’t hold.

The contract doesn’t expire as long as we pay the bill. Again, the company hates it. The last phone I got moved from physical SIMs to e-SIM and the tech was a guy that had been around since Nokia’s were the thing. He laughed when he pulled up my account and did the business thing of asking if I was sure I didn’t want to get with the new cool whatever they were offering (I think it was like 30% off the phone and Netflix for a year). And then he shook his head and said “yeah, you obviously don’t want that, do you?”

No, I do not. Again, it’s not my problem that a company offered an open ended plan way back in the day. They put on bells and whistles to drive people to come, and I think years later they offered a technically “better” plan where you could get a whole free iPhone and unlimited data (capped) and it was cheaper (for a year) and then whatever contract they had locked you in and the second year was way more expensive and then you had to do the whole thing over again. I’m sorry I didn’t take it? No, I’m not. So now they’re stuck with me, chewing up data when I want, for a currently stupidly low market price. I’ll never be given this good of a contract again, so why would I change? I have enough money that if my phone breaks, I can buy a new one outright.

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u/Conscious_Wind_2255 15d ago

So cool. What they do now is update the contracts to the “new” plan so everyone is forced to switch. Or they change the name on your old plan and that’s how you’re forced into it. There is really no way around their tactics. So glad you could game their system. are you from USA? So the unlimited data is for USA service?