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  • Generally good service in urban areas
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  • Inconsistent coverage in rural areas

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    Reviewed Aug. 9, 2014

    I and my family switched to T-Mobile from Sprint. At first we thought how could anyone not come to T-Mobile? But then after having the service for less than 2 months we had bought a brand new Nokia Lumia 521 windows phone and 2 refurbished ones. Well the brand new one we have replaced now 2 times and still having issues. We spoke to the retention, special service and their tech department spending more than 7 hours of time going back and forth. They will only replace the phone with a 5 dollar insurance fee and will not wipe the original purchase price which we owe 60 dollars left per phone if we upgrade the phones. Not even looking for free upgrade just the smart thing. Turns my phone in and get a small upgrade which I'm willing to pay for. But they still want the original phone paid for in full even though it's broken and never worked right in the first place.

    Now one of the refurbished phones is starting to have issues and they will not help to fix it. They say we need to turn it in to insurance for another 5 dollars and replace it with the same model make and model phone. Also none of their facilities has the ability to fix any of their phones. I can't understand how a company can sell you a broken product and not want to fix it. Even if I go to Wal-Mart and purchase a broken product they will replace it or accept the return. Now T-Mobile also on top of all this when we first got the phone being it took T-Mobile over 9 days to get us the phone and tried it for not even a week. Called them back saying we are all having issues with the phone would like to get a different phone, they told us it's day 15 and we cannot exchange the phones anymore. We only have a 14 day grace period.

    Their response was unbelievable. This should have been told from the beginning. That when I said on the phone I wanted their service before they even shipped the phone, the 14 day grace period started. What the heck kind of scam is T-Mobile. The worst company I have ever dealt with. All I can say is plain and simple. DO NOT GO WITH THE HYPE. T-MOBILE IS A STRAIGHT UP SCAM. The worst company I have ever dealt with in my life. I am dumping every piece of stock I have in them before this catches on. I'm going to try Cricket.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Aug. 8, 2014

    If anyone mentions using T-Mobile, make sure they run as fast as they can in the opposite direction. Their customer service is a joke. Plan on spending 45-60 minutes of your time to repetitiously explain your interest. I suspect that the "T" stands for TERRIBLE. I also believe their only marketing success is in the non-contract arena as a result of their poor service. I'm sooo glad I'm finished with them!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 8, 2014

    I switched to T-Mobile over 4 months ago from ATT. I did it because they said they would pay your fee for switching to T-Mobile. The way it would work would be that they give you a credit card for the amount so that you can pay off the other carrier. 4 months... and have not received the card. It is always in the mail and should be in my mail in 2 weeks. That is all they say. Just called and unfortunately for me, that department is closed and these my options according the customer service representative: call back tomorrow, or wait until Saturday because she is off tomorrow and cannot do anything about it. WOW!!!! Think twice about switching.

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    Reviewed Aug. 7, 2014

    My son has been returning telephones for services since he was 13 years old. Now, they are saying they got empty boxes for iPhones and I have to pay $1300? I will look into this matter for sure. Customer for 9 years. Time to move on.

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    Customer ServiceCoveragePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 7, 2014

    Was a T-Mobile customer for about 13 yrs. At that time had great service. Left T-Mobile about Sept of 2013 - went with Verizon. Went back to T-Mobile Jan 2014. Have 2 phones for my business. They agreed to pay Verizon early termination fee of $300.00 per line (phone) equals $600.00. Sent proper paperwork into Verizon 2-3 days after signing back with T-Mobile. Never received the monies owed for the termination with Verizon. Have asked and was told it is in process stage (now 7 months later, no $$).

    Went back to corporate store where we did business with T-Mobile 3 weeks ago (now 8-6-14). Gave us a printout that rebate was still being processed. Went back the next day and was told we sent paperwork in too soon - will have to resubmit the forms. They have never contacted us, either by phone, email or US mail. Now remember 7 months waiting and Verizon is sending us bills for monies owed. Why should I have to pay all late fees plus because of T-Mobile's mistake?

    Since Jan 2014, have called customer service numerous times. No results for problem with service, drop calls always going to voice mail or just no service at times. Went to the corporate store so many times I know the so-called managers by name. They really hate to see me or say they are busy, give me a sales person. 2 weeks I was there every day. Still the problems have never been resolved. One day they said they would give us 2 loaner phones to try. Went back next day. They said they have no loaner phones. The so-called manager told me to go next door to Target's and purchase a cheap prepaid T-Mobile phone. I pay now $ 207.00 per month for service and the 2 phones and now I should go buy another phone and pay a prepaid card - that is really a slap in the face.

    T-Mobile has hurt my business since I lose calls, text and messages. Have to go outside of my licensed home business to use my phone either to answer, text or receive messages. Been paying for services not provided as they should be... They told me 2 weeks in a row they would send a technician to my home to see what the 7 months problem was - never did come even after going back to the corporate store and was told the same bull over and over again. Customer service say my area, address has great coverage. Need someone to resolve this issue - refund $$ owed for services not render and for lost of business. Thank you.

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    Price

    Reviewed Aug. 7, 2014

    Plain and simple, T-Mobile is a huge RIPOFF!!!!! If you're contemplating switching to T-Mobile, save yourself some time & money. They will quote you one amount at the time of sign up & one month after your first bill, the amount goes up by $20 with no changes to your plan. I hate everything they represent & wishes that they go bankrupt with all the false information they give their customers. Signed, Frustrated new comer!!!!!

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    Reviewed Aug. 5, 2014

    I called T-Mobile to set up a payment arrangement as I have been struggling the past year with financed to a 4 month medical leave of absence. They advised me they can't honor my request as they've changed their policy and can only extend it to be paid in full 10 days. I've been a customer for years and told them how dissatisfied I am and will look into moving to another carrier. I was told "do what you need to do but this payment needs to be pain in full by 8/14/2014 or your services will be terminated"! T-Mobile is horrible!!!

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 1, 2014

    Scum! I paid my phones off at the end of June and switched to another company before the new month started. Well today I get a letter saying I owe $62 for the month of July - August..... WTF! I called and they said that I had to pay or go to collections.... I asked them why when I didn't have service with them. Basically they just kept repeating themselves and switching us to different people who said the same damn thing.... They don't have an answer, they just want the money for their expensive crappy service that I can't use through most of where I live. I will pay the money but I will NEVER RECOMMEND THIS THIEVING COMPANY!!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Aug. 1, 2014

    My phone is always losing network connection. I have no idea why my provider, which is MetroPCS, is riding on T-Mobile's network. They did not do that years ago. Anyway, I am going to switch to Verizon. T-Mobile's network is always conking out or non-existent. I am hoping that Verizon's network will stay UP. I hear that Verizon has the best network performance of all. Boost Mobile is even worse. When you sign up with them, they do not tell you that your 3G service will be diminished to 2G after a few months OR you reach a data ceiling. You find it out when you have nothing but buffering on your phone 13 hours a day!!!!!

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPriceStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 1, 2014

    I wrote this to T-Mobile Customer Service, after being insulted by the manager and having spent 2 entire hours trying to buy a phone and service from T-Mobile in the Stamford, Connecticut Mall location. On my lunch hour -- which, since I am a contractor, costs me money, I went to the T-mobile shop at the mall, and trying to get off my AT&T plan, asked what kinds of service there were and what new phones I might be able to buy. I selected an LG Android phone that cost $598.00 that could be financed monthly. I was told that my contacts could be transferred from my iPhone to that one. I also had 2 other phones on my account which I wanted to get new service for, moving from AT&T. I was told that for the other two phones I needed to tell AT&T that I was traveling overseas and I needed the unlock code, and this would take 48 hours to do. I signed up for the service, which was $80 a month. I put down $100 as a down payment on the phone. I bought a case for the phone at $34.

    I crossed the hall to go to AT&T and see if I could get the unlock code. I was given an 800 number and was told that it would take 2 3 weeks to get it, as they needed to research whether the equipment was still under contract (it isn't). This itself took me 15 minutes, as no one was available to talk to me. Going back to T-Mobile, my salesperson was on the phone, having trouble moving the numbers around. I happened to notice that she had mis-wrote my main number, and corrected it. She also tried to use a device to collect the contacts from my phone and transfer them to the new one. The cables to do this were in total disarray, which she remarked on, and spent a few minutes trying to find the right one. All in all, the staff spent at least 45 minutes trying to get data from my phone onto the new phone, and were unsuccessful.

    They spent a lot of time setting up a temporary phone for my wife in case she needed it while they explained this several times. It still made no sense at all, as long as she still could use AT&T until we'd get the unlock code, weeks from now and then move it over. Still no contact data was being transferred over to the new phone, but they were able to get all my photos, which I had said didn't matter and in which I was not interested.

    Then I was told I had to go back over to the AT&T store and tell them to report over the number that T-Mobile had just taken from AT&T and take it back, as my wife's phone wouldn't be available for a while. While I was there, the woman from T-mobile came in to the door of the AT&T shop and called me, saying that I didn't need to do that any longer, they had another solution.

    We spent another half hour trying to straighten out how this was going to happen, and what with the rap music they were playing, the chatter between the associates, it was a harrowing experience going nowhere. Finally they were able to get a small portion of my contact information through my Google account. Perhaps a third of what I had on my phone, but they were all email addresses - no phone numbers. That is to say, it was totally useless to me. At this point I was so upset that they were unable to give me what I needed, nonetheless what I wanted. I simply said let's just stop. Give me my money back. I had been there patiently waiting, going back and forth to AT&T and the store for two hours.

    The manager, Leandro, walked in at this point and went into the back room. I truly felt that what they had promised me, they couldn't give me, and I wanted my money back. It took another 15 minutes to revert the payments as credits to me, and when she was done, I asked what the $50 charge remaining was for. For re-stocking says she, I told you about it before we started. She had said that there was a 14-day trial period to use the phone, and if I didn't like it, I could return it for a $50 restocking fee. At this time I had not even used the phone once. I barely had touched it, except to enter my email address three times because they couldn't get it to connect. I was not only distraught at their inability and what was turning out to be terrible customer service, but when I asked to see the manager, he came out and said, "what, just because we couldn't get your contacts to move over, you want your money back"? Truly, the idea of re-typing in 330 names, addresses, and phone numbers and alternate numbers was not the way I wanted to spend the next month, so yes, it was a deal breaker for me, especially since I was told it could be just ported over.

    The outrageous part was when Leandro, the store manager, who had really just walked in, started to try to intimidate me, saying that I had wasted his people's time and the other salesperson chimed in that I had been rude to the salesperson. I truly do not think I was rude but I did want what I was paying a lot of money for. And re-stocking fee or not, I did not use this phone, it was not acceptable to me, and I wanted my money back. I cannot believe I spent two hours waiting for the staff to figure out how to do their job, then pay $50 for the privilege of getting nothing at all. NOTHING.

    I am sure I signed documents that said there was a re-stocking fee. I expected that it would be waived from so much inept service, inept management, and truly disappointing level of value for cost that I expected. I cannot believe they treat customers this way, and I can only appeal to them to return my $50 as a matter of good business. Hiding behind an agreement that is obviously one-sided is very poor. I wanted to go to T-mobile because I had heard of their good deals, their good prices, and their good customer service. Having been verbally assaulted by two of the management staff on site, has me in a state of near shock and disbelief that this is the way they make money. I wasted their time. Those were the words from the manager.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Aug. 1, 2014

    I have been a t mobile customer for last 7 years. 5 years ago changed my address and just recently came to know that they haven't changed my address on the phone primary in use address and so have been taxed for my previous address - where my current location have lower tax. Call t mobile to let them know and help me get back the over taxed amount. Last 1 month, no positive response, still trying. This is ever after calling them 1 year back about the same tax question, even the address did not get changed. Customer service could not resolve the problem then and now they say it was my fault. I am taking them to court - waiting for my last attempt. Beware t-mobile customers.

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    Reviewed July 31, 2014

    I started with T-Mobile in 10/2011. I didn't feel i was getting the best quality of phones so I ended my contract in Feb of 2013. they are now billing me for $1,700.00 and feel these charges are not accurate. The collection agency contacted me last year and was making monthly payments. they stopped contacting me around June of last year, then all of a sudden I get a letter from them stating all efforts to contact me have been unsuccessful. They had my address and phone number, but i received nothing from them.

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    Reviewed July 30, 2014

    Where do I begin... T-Mobile after merging with EE got on their bloody high horses and began throwing their weight around. If you’re looking to get a contract I'd recommend going with Tesco Mobile... An honest opinion... at least you won't be hit with bogus charges, rude customer service people and an overall crappy experience. I was within my comfort zone. I had been with T-Mobile all my life, so I decided to do an upgrade with them when the time came around and got an additional line for my hubby. Everything was going well, until the so called 'capped' calls and texts suddenly became uncapped and I was hit with a £300 bill. WTH over the period of a month.

    As soon as I called customer services what do I get, BLAMED for charges which were absolute crap. I called them 4 times after I got my contract to confirm that it was capped and I would not be receiving any nasty charges. And behold... the representative never even put a note confirming what they had told me. I tried everything in the book - calling and trying to get a more understanding rep, threatening them with leaving. Nothing worked. The manager refused to give any of her details - shock huh? She was rude and quite frankly incompetent. I am still locked with them over this, so the least I could do is stop them getting any more customers for now. They are the most rubbish network ever and so impolite.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed July 29, 2014

    I own a phone I purchased while a T-Mobile customer. I left them for several reasons; cost, billing issues and mostly their customer service was terrible. And I got a great deal at a new company including a brand new phone for free. I gave my old Galaxy S3 to a friend of mine to use with her Verizon account. It was a complete nightmare.

    On Monday, they told her they would email her an unlock code within 24 hours. She received the code Tuesday at 9:15pm. The code didn't work. She called back and was told they were sorry but had made a typo in the IMEI number so would resend the unlock code within 24 hours. On Wednesday, she got the new code. This code was also unsuccessful. She called back Wednesday night and was told the phone could not be unlocked as I had an unpaid balance from 2013 which needed to be paid before they could unlock the phone.

    I called Thursday morning and they told me I needed to call their collection agency directly. The collection agency had no record of me, my old T-Mobile account or any unpaid balance, because it never existed. They sent an email to T-Mobile stating this. T-Mobile called my friend and apologized, saying once again an unlock code would be sent via email in 24 hours. This third code still was unsuccessful. After 3 conference calls with me, my friend and the manager at T-Mobile, they said it was an issue with her Verizon SIM card. I conferenced them into the call where they assured us this SIM card was totally fine but could not operate until T-Mobile unlocked it on their end.

    It's now day 11 of this back and forth. T-Mobile unlocked the phone and Verizon says they can't use the phone with the Verizon SIM card because the networks are not compatible. 11 days of this and it will never work per Verizon and T-Mobile. Why didn't anyone tell us this on day 1? Bottom line, I'm done with cell phones. I'm going back to the old days with a home landline only.

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    Reviewed July 28, 2014

    Every month I receive a bill from T-Mobile, the bill is higher than the last and I never change my plan nor my phone. I called customer service and the lady told me every month the taxes goes up. Now I asking her why is that and she could not come up with a good reason. I also told her one month, my bill was very high. Then the following month it went down. She told me taxes went down for that month so I told her and the next month it went back up. They are raising people bills with no good reason for doing it.

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    Reviewed July 28, 2014

    This is the worst company ever. The coverage is **. I had a no-contract price of $50 a month. They conned me into a ** deal that was supposedly better data and only $50 a month. That **, my bills jumped from $50 a month to $120. ** T-Mobile.

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    Reviewed July 28, 2014

    I've had T-Mobile add inaccurate information to my credit report, and I have not had an account with T-Mobile in over ten years. I received a discounted payment offer requesting that I settle for $100 from Afni in Bloomington, IL. Today I received an alert from my credit monitoring agency informing me of an account that has gone into collection. However, the company that added negative reporting to my credit report was from ENHANCED RECOVERY for an amount of $60. Is it common for a company to have two separate collection agencies requesting a debt, and for two separate amounts?

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    Reviewed July 26, 2014

    Well I upgrade my phone and they closed my old account. I got the bill from the old account for 93.83$. I paid it and got another bill saying I owe 93.83 again. Also I paid it again. Then bill me 244$ for August 15, 2014. When I just finished paying again 93.83$, they denied that I put a down payment for iPad Apple 186$. It's bad business. :(

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    Reviewed July 26, 2014

    Add charges that I did not authorize on my bill. Do not stand behind the extended Warranty Program. Send refurbished phones and bill you without your authorization. Will not let me send back the phone they sent me.

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    Contract & TermsSales & MarketingPrice

    Reviewed July 26, 2014

    This is so cheap - it's how I feel after the experience to keep service with T-Mobile after today. They ask for a debit card to extend service which is not really a thing but did they want my number for? Again used it to pay the bill four months ago. Did they get hacked? And this company end contracts that paid for upgrades right before they honored the agreement. Think what the scam you are in.

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    Customer ServiceContract & Terms

    Reviewed July 26, 2014

    For 3 weeks now, I keep getting a "send failed" message when I try to send an email. It works over WiFi, but not sending over cellular. I talked to tech service and they said it was my email provider. I been to the store and they say it's the email provider. I talked to my email provider and they said it was T-Mobile network. They also told me that T-Mobile is aware of the issue, but not fix. My email worked great for 1 1/2 years until 3 weeks ago. The email provider is Rack Space. I'm not under contract and due to lack of customer service to fix the problem, I am going to change providers. I had T-Mobile for 6 years and now they have lost a loyal customer.

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    Reviewed July 25, 2014

    Brought a brand new compatible phone to the store to start service. Rep (who I now believe was too new to know how to do things right without supervision), went through trying to get a sim card and account set up and while there, had the manager come over and calmly but annoying ask him why he didn't do something. The process was to get new service, have my old phone number transferred, and have it work. He supposedly completed everything and I left. Something told me to stay in the area and I'm glad I did. The internet worked on the phone, but I couldn't make calls out. It would give me an automated error message, the text messaging didn't get sent out, AND my telephone number was never transferred.

    I went back to the store and he asked me to wait. He went to a customer who was there (before me) and his manager went over to him and told him he needed to help me. He tested the text messaging and the call and tried to fix it but couldn't figure it out. Eventually he got the calling and messaging to work. He didn't explain what he did to fix it. I pressed him to explain why it wasn't taken care of the first time. He kept trying to blame it on my phone saying generally it is the phone and trying to sell me one from inside the store. I knew he was full of it. I told him he wasn't sure and was guessing just like I was as to why things weren't working. Again he blamed the phone. I told him if he really thinks it's my phone to cancel my service and I would have a techie friend look into. He said prepaid service isn't refundable.

    Today is day three, yesterday was a holiday and I got a call from a T-mobile rep to transfer my telephone #. She said I needed to give her a PIN number that was assigned to my account. AGAIN, something he didn't do and I couldn't provide. I will be going into the store today to fix this.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed July 24, 2014

    I've purchased an iPad Air all the way back in November thinking it was a great deal because of its financing service and free 200 MB for life as advertised by their CEO! Of course, all great deals ALWAYS have a catch. Mistake # 1: Ordering over the the phone with an incompetent sales rep at a call center where all they care about is the commission. Mistake # 2: Thinking free is actually free.

    So it all started with billing me the $10 for the data after the sales rep reassured me the data as free. I called once after seeing the bill and they said they would waive it and I would have to pay again. Behold, i got another bill. On another front, after 2 days of paying a down payment of $200.40 (tax included) for the iPad, I received a pending charge of 570 for the rest of the iPad on my credit card. That raised an alarm and I called T-Mobile to confirm that if it was in fact indeed a pending charge. They have assured me that it was and there's no charge. 2 days later, the full amount of the iPad was charged to my credit card. I then called informing them of that and they re-assured me that since the iPad was charged, I will no longer get the installment bill and they will make sure that I will not get the $10 data charge either down the road. By then, that was my 4th call.

    2 months later, I received another bill asking me to pay the installment and data. I called again asking them to fix this. They waived my bill reassured me that I would not have to call again. Of course another month passed, I got another bill. So basically they refused to acknowledge their mistake and keep dodging me and had me going in a loop. Back in March, I refused to pay the bills and T-Mobile took it to a debt collector. I have all the evidence I need to prove that I paid the iPad in full and send it to the collector. This is where I made a mistake where I didn't get the mail certified to prove that I've sent them the evidence. A month later, I got another letter from the debt collector.

    Last week, I called them again and told me I need to go to a store to show them the evidence that I've paid. I went to a store and showed them and they said they can't help me because I didn't buy the device from them. But the rep offered to show me all the notes the different rep had took when I made those calls. I've had saw that back in Nov the idiot rep had put charges onto my card! Those liars told me no charges was made at all!! The rep then made memos on how I went into the store and he believed me that I had paid.

    After that, I immediately called T-Mobile and asked for a supervisor or a manager. The rep tried to get me to hang up by saying I have to wait for a supervisor and she will escalate the issue for me. I told her no and that i will wait. I waited 30 minutes for a supervisor. At first he seemed incompetent and tried to give me the go-around but I had to be persistent on telling him, T-Mobile !@#$%^ up and I have all the evidence to show that I have paid and I will go to a lawyer if he refuse to help. I rather pay a lawyer $570 to dent their reputation even by a little than to fork over $570 into their greedy little hands. He reassured me that he wants to help and get to the bottom of this. He told me he escalated to the accounts team and that he will call me back in 48-72 hours. I asked for his name but he refused to give me his last name but willing to give me his employee ID number. I told him, that i will wait for his call and be expecting him and that I WILL take legal action against T-mobile if I don't hear from him.

    Today is the 48 hour mark and I received a call from him giving me good news on admitting that they did indeed charge me the full amount. For some reason over the phone, he kept trying to a different amount and get me to confirm it. I was persistent in giving him the EXACT amount to make sure ALL the charges adds up so that way he cannot use it against me. He told me he will call me Saturday to further update me. So we shall see.

    In the end, what did I learn? Never think a too good to be true deal was actually a deal with no strings attached. And always order a device from a cell phone carrier through an actual store and not through a phone! Hope my story can help somebody in the same situation as me! Just be super persistent and prepare all the evidence you have and do not be afraid to show it to them!!

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    Reviewed July 23, 2014

    I left my previous cell phone company, when T-Mobile said they would pay early termination fees. Well, I was having all kinds of problems with my phone... not receiving text message or phone calls. So I called to find out the issues with all phones, and that's when I found out that instead of paying my early termination fees, they credited to my account with them. Leaving me to pay AT&T and Verizon. This was not the agreement when we went into the store. If this offer would have not been given, I would have never accepted it because now I owe Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. This is not fair and it is misleading and false advertising. T-Mobile customer service representatives are also rude. Along with false advertising, they received 3 phones from us which they were suppose to pay us for but we didn't receive. If T-Mobile will not stand up to offers, they should not make them. They have put my credit rating in jeopardy and caused me emotional stress.

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    Reviewed July 23, 2014

    T-Mobile got us by lying from the beginning. We were told a bunch of lies from the rep at the store have called customer service who are rude and they keep sending text messages saying we owe money. We haven't even had service for 30 days. All bad.

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    Reviewed July 22, 2014

    I decided to switch to T-Mobile from Virgin Mobile because of poor reception. I went online to do the switch... Was contacted by a rep online - talked to him for a long time about switching, and after asking him if I could bring my Samsung Galaxy 3 to T-Mobile. He assured me I could but I would need a SI card from T-Mobile. I went ahead with the order, they were to send me the SIM card, but in the meantime they transferred my phone number immediately (before the SIM card arrived), meaning my Virgin account was closed but the T-Mobile account was not opened - so I was without a phone for 4 days.

    My SIM card arrived and I couldn't figure out how to install it (I'm not that phone savvy). I proceeded to go to Walmart to see if they could help since they rep T-Mobile. I talked with a very, very helpful sales woman who informed me my phone didn't have a SIM card slot and that I could not use my current phone with T-Mobile!! Why the T-Mobile rep told me I could is beyond me. I am so angry with the loss of my phone for 4 days, and now I'm not sure what to do - I'm in limbo. I'm probably going to have to go back to Virgin since their phone seems to be proprietary to them - which makes me angry with them also since I just purchased the phone a couple months ago. Not a great experience all the way around with T-Mobile or Virgin.

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    Reviewed July 21, 2014

    I waited till my term was up and because I canceled during a billing cycle they charged me for the full month. I tried to fight it. They turned me over to a bill collector. I now owe $400.00.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 19, 2014

    I purchased a phone and returned it and when I was talking to the Customer Rep I was upset because I was not told I was gonna have to pay for the screen protector that I did not used and the customer rep started screaming and harassing me and my wife in front of more customer and staff member. I never thought T-mobile, the company I've been since 2011 could have a horrible customer services. I was shocked when I was harassed by a representative and almost hit by her. I've never been more disrespected in my life. I would like to make a report about this.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed July 18, 2014

    I switched from Verizon to T-Mobile to try and save money. I turned in an iPhone 5s from Verizon and had to purchase a new phone from T-Mobile. I was told I would get reimbursed for my iPhone I turned in. It never happened. After months of arguing with customer service about the phone, they said they couldn't give me any money for the phone. At first they said they couldn't find it. Then they said it was locked. Then they said even if I got Verizon to unlock the phone, they still couldn't reimburse me or send me my phone back. So basically I gave them a new iPhone 5s and had to repurchase one from them and pay for it. Needless to say, I cancelled my T-Mobile and went back to Verizon. They cost more but they are worth it. Better customer service.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 18, 2014

    Recently I've been noticing additional charges on my T-Mobile bill. The first of which was an additional fee of $14.98 for something my husband supposedly ordered on his phone. First, his phone does NOT have internet access. It is an old phone and he just uses it for making/receiving calls. Therefore, there is no way he "ordered something" on his phone. Then, this month, after having made my payment, it stated online that it was unable to process it, yet sent me a text message stating that payment had been received.

    Since my daughter and I were by a location, I decided to verify that payment had indeed been made, so service wouldn't be interrupted. While in the location, my daughter was in the food court and I texted her letting me know where I was. Therefore, my phone was in full working order. Imagine my shock when I saw my bill raised not a few dollars, but $152.00!!!! T-Mobile is stating that our account was suspended and we incurred a $20.00 fee for each and EVERY line. But, how could that be, when I was texting my daughter at the time? Therefore, our lines were NOT suspended. T-Mobile is just trying to tack on additional charges at MY expense. I am ready to file a class action lawsuit against them. Anyone want to join in???

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 17, 2014

    I had been a T-Mobile customer for 6 long years. On Nov. 9th of 2013 I closed my account with T-Mobile. On July 7th of 2014 I received a bill for $782.90. I called T-Mobile and they said that the bill was sold to a collection agency and they could not help me. So I called the collection agency and they said that I have to send in a dispute form. I asked them for this form and they said they don't have this form so I have to make one up. The collection agency Diversified Consultants Inc. does not care about the dispute. All they want is my money so they are not going to help. T-Mobile is not going to help even though it was there mistake so I have learned a hard lesson - NEVER DO BUSINESS WITH T-MOBILE AGAIN!!!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 17, 2014

    I signed up for T-mobile four months ago and I've had nothing but issues with customers services. 1st of all they put my wrong apartment # since the beginning. The other day I contacted them about signal issues, it wasn't the 1st time so they shipped out my package to the wrong apt. So I contacted them and they were giving me the run around and hanging up on me. When I told them my address, they verified that they had the correct address so I called the executive office to talk to the CEO and they said they couldn't contact him and I told her I wasn't denying anything they were offering me or hanging tell, I talked to her boss or CEO but she hung up on me. When I signed up, I gave them my I.d with the right address and they only the contracts where I needed to sign and the highlighted area of the amount I owe them. This is my identity.

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    Customer ServiceCoverage

    Reviewed July 17, 2014

    I have been with T-Mobile for a little over two years. Since that time I have gone through 10 smartphones. When I talked to customer service they said 7 smartphones. In any case, each prefab phone has one issue after another. I have insurance and so far I have not had to pay the $5.00 deductible. Yet instill I have to keep replacing phones. When I call I keep hearing about company policy. I have emulate my concern to management who still tells me about company policy; I can't get a new phone even though the refab phones have not my expectations which are making a call, downloading apps, the ability to login to Google.com Play and set up my phone. The replacement phone I have now to replace the replacement phone will not accept my passwords no matter what I do or the suggestions that T-Mobile tech support has me try. I am tired of replacing phoning only to have to replace another. I have asked for a new phone to only hear about company policy again which hasn't solved my problem.

    Why have I post this information is because I pay good hard earn money each to T-Mobile only to hear about their customer policy. At this point you'd think they would cut their losses and just send me a new phone and take up the issue with their vendor. Quality control is the issue here. I have spent over 5 hours with this replacement phone only to be able to make calls and receive calls. I can't even call 911 in case of an emergency. I am not a happy camper and I am tired of hearing about T-Mobile policy. I want my problem resolved. Even if T-Mobile is correct about the number of phones replaced that in itself is too many without acknowledging that we have gone pass refab phones. It's time to take care of the customer, and not just take my money for products that don't stand up to what T-Mobile says they are about. Blaming their vendor doesn't help me get customer satisfaction.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPrice

    Reviewed July 16, 2014

    I bought a new phone because I lost mine. The phone I wanted was a T-Mobile phone so I changed providers because the salesmen said it was the same price per month. I like the month to month with no contract which means the day you start is the beginning of the month. Not with T-Mobile, their month is 3 days! They charged me for a whole month and I only got 3 days and started a new month. My $50 a month turned into $105.00!!! Nice way to start with a new company. Needless to say I WILL BE SWITCHING BACK TO STRAIGHT TALK.

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    Reviewed July 15, 2014

    What has happened to T-Mobile service? No connectivity here.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed July 14, 2014

    We have a T-Mobile plan since August 2013. On May 30th, we decided to change it for a family plan. My daughter Gabriela lives in Tampa, FL and we often go to the US, although we live in another country. ** which is being copied on this email, sold us within this plan an iPhone 5s, FULL PRICE, UNLOCKED (retail store at 5006 G East Fowler Avenue #813-988-2515). Gabriela informed her that this phone would be a gift to her father that lives in Brazil and travels all over Europe and America. Since that day, we are willing to unlock it.

    The seller sent us a few weeks ago an email with the unlock code, but with a different IMEI and a different phone (a LG)... How can this even happen!?!?! Now we have received an email saying that you will not give us the unlock code BUT WE HAVE PAID the amount for the unlocked phone. So... Please give us the unlock code or give our money back. Otherwise, this is a robbery! AND WE WILL SUE YOU! We really can't understand why you are doing this! We have paid an extra charge. You also charged my daughter an extra US$15 so she could prove she owns the phone (?!?!?!?). If you don't give us the unlock code and achieve this matter... We will cancel everything, including the plans. Your staff treat us like idiots! - Each one saying different things. This is really a bad behavior of you! We feel like you are cheating on us!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 12, 2014

    I received a text message from T-Mobile that my prepaid rebate card of $100 for my Samsung Galaxy S5 purchased as offered in writing at the time of purchase would be sent to me in two weeks. This text message was sent 05/23/2014. Then I found out through numerous phone calls and appearing at the store I purchased the phone that the rebate card would be mailed 06/24/2014. It is now 07/12/2014 and I still do not have the rebate card. I called yesterday 07/11 to get a reason for the delay and waited 30 minutes for someone to answer the phone. No one ever did. How much longer do I have to wait for a rebate card that was supposed to have been sent nearly two months ago?

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 11, 2014

    B of A verified purchase of new smartphone on 6/26/14 for about $130. T-Mobile rep repeatedly promised delivery of phone prior to 7/1/14. Several jobs starting on that date required a smartphone. I lost thousands of dollars in income because as of today, 7/10/14, the smartphone was still not delivered. Of course I spent an incredible number of hours complaining to T-Mobile "customer service" workers. All I got in return were insults and abuse. NO one was willing to escalate my call, contact a manager, or even give me a name of a higher up. On my own I located an email for the executive branch. Emails were not returned. No smartphone was delivered. BOYCOTT this FRAUDULENT company with badly trained employees. They do NOT want new customers. They HATE new clients. The WORST co. in the USA.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed July 10, 2014

    My mom passed on April 18, 2014. I found out I need to cancel before 30 days so I emailed them. Was asked copy of death cert and bill that was done on May 14th. Then I get a response back dated in July. Funny how they date things and don't realize that it is marked from date I received it and I also got a copy of what was sent. I keep copies of everything and whom I spoke with. Now it's July 10 and I get a bill for cancellation. I can't believe this company. I did file a complaint with BBB and funny how fast they responded. I still did not recall it but I'm going to add to it. Before you go to T-Mobile, check out BBB for any company and you will see I'm not the only one having problems with many companies.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 9, 2014

    With a family line of 4, the monthly bill should have come around 223 including taxes, but right now I am playing 600 dollar every month. T-Mobile is ripping me off. The company Motto is Fraud and the customer representatives sucks. I called them to discuss my charges and they keep on hanging up my phone and transferring the line. Then I went to the retailer to cancel my contract and the guy at the retail store told me that if I pay 50 dollar, he will cancel my contract. I did that and now when I told this to the customer service representative, they tell me that it's my fault and if I want to cancel my account i have to pay 3000 dollar. If I have something to say to T-Mobile, then that is you guys suck. Your company is ripping off from the consumer. I pray that when you die your soul wanders in neither land. I hope your company goes bankrupt. I hope that you suffer from the same problem like we do.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 6, 2014

    I currently work on a Military installation in Goose Creek, South Carolina. My experience with T-Mobile was really bad. Internet didn't work, calls would be a hit and miss. My bill was never the same. Something needs to change. I switched to Verizon.

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    Customer ServiceContract & Terms

    Reviewed July 6, 2014

    I have dropped calls all the time. Seems like T mobile not able to fix it. They want me to pay for the remaining balance for the phone, since I don't have contract. To me it's very unfair, because it's the company not providing the service. It's like paying for making me upset.

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    Customer ServiceCoverage

    Reviewed July 3, 2014

    I bought a family plan for 4 people and the bill was expected to be 100$ + taxes. The bill came out to be $138 first because I purchased one cell phone and they charged me monthly coverage or something like that. I disputed/cancelled it but the bill is still 127$ (That's awfully high!). Secondly the phone which I bought LG Optimus l90 at $228 is sold at $159 for T-Mobile at Walmart barely 3-4 days after I purchased in store (I paid in full). So four problems:

    1) High bills
    2) charging and adding coverages, services without asking
    3) complicated bills (perhaps deliberately)

    4) Walmart selling LG Optimus l90 in 159$ while I paid 228$ for the same phone just a few days back

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 3, 2014

    I tried call sycamore IL. Every time I try to leave a message it won't let me. This has happen about 5 time. If I want someone to call me I have to text them. I never had this problem when we had U.S . Cellular or any other problem. Since we went to T- mobile, it's being nothing but problem. The last couple of months have been fun. I also would not be able to hear the person on the other end of the phone. I wish T-mobile would have been the company to leave the Chicago area, U.S. would have stayed. We were with them for years and I never had a problem. WE HAVE BEEN WITH T-MOBILE; IT HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT PROBLEMS!!!

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed July 3, 2014

    T-Mobile has issues with their billing/technical department. They are billing for services not fully received. In other words if I turn my phone service on on the 4th of the month I will be billed on the 23rd of the same month. If payment is not received by then, T Mobile an automated department will start sending out text that your phone will be shut off. How can they shut off service if I Haven't received a full month of services. When I call to inquire they had no answers stating it was automated system that shut off the phone. It seems this company is growing too fast to handle a simple matter in their networks.

    Shouldn't a Technician be able to program DON'T SHUT OFF A PHONE TILL CUSTOMER HAS RECEIVED A FULL MONTH'S SERVICE & STILL NOT PAID, no matter when your billing cycle ends or begins in your backwards system. GIVE the customer a full 30 days service before you bill them. When I called in to let them know that they had made a mistake by shutting my phone off before a full 30 days of service was completed, they Stated they had no control over the network system & when it shut your phone off. Look... to me this seems like a rip off.. You can't charge a late fee if you still haven't received a full month's service. It's like I'm being penalized for not paying them 3 days early. How can they get away with this? Who do I speak to about this blatant theft?

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    Contract & TermsPriceStaff

    Reviewed July 2, 2014

    When I first sign in with T-Mobile I was told that my family plan (including my husband and I) will be total of $140 per month. We left Verizon because we were trying to cut on our bills and we were paying around $179 a month for two lines. Well, for our surprise the first two bills were $140 and then surprise!! Bill went up to $170 a month. I contacted T-Mobile and was told the charges were correct and there is nothing they can do with it, and they are sorry that the t-mobile representative told us that. Now I am stuck with T-mobile until I pay to total of the I-phone device since I did not have a contract the price is ridiculously high. I am very disappointed since other companies the price is lower with contract for the device and the plans much lower also.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPriceStaff

    Reviewed July 1, 2014

    About 7 years ago, I decided to try out t mobile. The local Walmart had the plans. I went there and decided to get my plan. After careful consideration I decided that the "fav 5 family plan" was the way to go. I was told this plan would run me 65.00 per phone per month. I should have known that if it sounds too good to be true, it is. Being foolish I accepted. Walmart drew up the contract in its entirety. Even calling t mobile to verify and activate two phones I had purchased. I felt good about my recent purchase. It wasn't until the first bill that I found that I had been duped.

    The first bill came in between 300 and 400 dollars. I was beside myself and immediately called t mobile customer service. The call went something like this. I gave my name and account number. The rep then asked what plan I had. I told them the "fav 5 family plan", to which her response was "no you don't". I remember arguing with her over the plan for a while and finally telling her that I had the contract right in front of me that clearly stated "fav 5 family plan". Her response then was basically that I was lying and that I needed to fax her a copy of my contract. So I did. And called her back.

    She then told me that she believed it was impossible to have a "fav 5 family plan" because that plan simply did not exist. So I told her I no longer wanted t mobile's service since they did not have what I was looking for. The woman then transferred me to the supervisor who then tried to convince me to stay with t mobile. She offered 3 or more alternative plans, which were about 20 percent more expensive. I declined. She then offered to put me into t mobile's "elite memberships" which would give reduced prices by 5 percent. I declined that offer as well. I told the supervisor I no longer wanted t mobile and that the "fav 5 family plan" was what I wanted, if I couldn't have that I didn't want any of them.

    The supervisor told me that it would be considered an early termination and the bill was now over 500 dollars. I refused to pay any termination fee and offered to pay the quoted price on the contract of 130.00 per month. The supervisor offered to take the 130.00 as a payment toward the 500 plus dollar bill. I then argued with her about the validity of the contract. Claiming that if the plan written on the contract doesn't exist then the contract itself doesn't exist, and therefore the termination fee written therein wasn't valid either. She would hear none of it. I told her to shut my account off and hung up the phone.

    I paid t-mobile 130.00 and shut everything down. A month later I get a bill for 500 plus dollars. I assumed the payment wasn't credited so I called t mobile back. I was told that my 130.00 payment was put on my account but since I didn't pay the full balance and the cancellation fee, the phone was still active and a service fee, taxes and interest were added to my account. I told the lady I was not going to pay that bill ever and briefly explained the situation above followed with my 2nd request to terminate my account.

    The next month comes and the bill is almost 600 dollars. I call again, and guess what they said. You got it, since I didn't pay the cancellation fee the phone was still active and blah blah blah. I threatened them with a bbb report and a report to the ftc and the department of consumer protection if the account wasn't canceled right then. I also told them never to expect payment on that bill. Keep in mind I was very mad and admit at this point my vocabulary was rather color to say the least. They told me that the account was canceled.

    The next month a bill comes in 600+. Now I was furious. I called them again. I was told that they were "giving me the chance to pay the bill and only interest on the bill was applied to the bill." I believe here is where I called the rep a M.F.er and told them they will never get paid and to stop sending me the bill. At this point I was so mad I did make the complaints to all three entities I listed above. I continued to get bills from t mobile until the bill was 1165.00 and a full year had elapsed. They then sent my bill to a collection agency. I got my first call from the company and was pretty mad to say the least. I told them the long story about the garbage t mobile pulled, faxed them a copy of the "contract" that never existed, had them call t mobile and ask them if the plan was a valid plan.

    The collection agency dropped the entire bill and didn't contact me again. You would figure that it would be the end of it here, wouldn't you? But it isn't... I joined the military and got deployed about a year later. While in afghanistan I started fixing all the issues in my credit report, when guess what magically popped up? You guessed it. T mobile apparently bought back my bill from that old collection agency and reissued it out to another agency. So I wrote to, I believe it was experian, and disputed the bill. I had to explain this whole story to them. They investigated and within a week it was gone from my credit report.

    Being that now 2 years had gone by my original contract was well probably gone somewhere and I hoped that that would be the end of it. A year later the darn bill shows up again by yet another collection agency on a different credit report. I believe it was equifax this time. I was so mad at this point, I didn't want to go over this long drawn out story of t mobile's fraud so I simply told equinox to contact experian and the 3 companies regarding the matter and that I was done explaining this to anyone. I then told them that I will never pay them and that I will pay every bill on my credit report but not them ever.... And I did. I paid every bill, everything off on my entire credit report, and left that there... This is what t mobile does. I am waiting for them to send the mafia to my house to threaten me next.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 1, 2014

    My husband contacted T-Mobile early 2014 to see if we could get service here. The idiot told him that, "Yes we have great service in your area." We get the phones, and they do not work here, no service at all. He calls them and are told they will cancel the service for him and just return the phones. He sent them back, and received a bill for approx $100.00 for services rendered. He then called to make a payment and they told him he owed $1121.00 for the cost of the phones and cancellation. He explained he returned the phones and they told him not to worry about it. The next day he receives a bill for $1121.00.

    Contacted them again with the same answer: Don't worry about it. Today we got a bill from a collection agency. T-mobile said they did not receive the phones. So we have to pay for something we sent back, that we would of never gotten to begin with if the rep knew what the heck he was talking about to begin with. I don't think so.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed July 1, 2014

    I went to apply to T-Mobile when they had an offer to pay $25 a month for any phone. They asked for all my information. The salesman told me I was looking about $100 to pay up in front for taxes and first month and when I was going to payday was trying to charge me $380, and I didn't have the money. So I asked the salesman to cancel everything. Time pass by and I start receiving billings for a service that I never receive. I called 7 times to customer service and I told him the problem. They kept hanging up on me and finally I spoke to a supervisor. He told me that he was going to clear everything since I never receive a phone in order to use a service. Now I have a collection for service I never received.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPrice

    Reviewed June 30, 2014

    T-Mobile put my account under contract after I told them I DID NOT WANT a contract. They then charged me $300 termination fee even though I DID NOT purchase a single phone from them!

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsStaff

    Reviewed June 25, 2014

    I had a T Mobile cell phone and decided I would get the T Mobile stick for my computer. I paid $60.00 for the stick and was never able to connect with the internet. I contacted T mobile and they assured me they could get it connected. I talked with customer service, the 1st level tech service, the 2nd level tech service and the dept above customer service, all of these dept's many times. During these episodes they sent me to have my computer checked and to their company store to have the problem checked. It never worked. A customer service person finally told me if I let them send me a new stick and it didn't work I could close the account. It didn't work.

    I called to close the acct and got a person in the upper level of customer service, HANNAH, she refused to allow me to close the account without paying a $200 early termination fee. She said with T Mobile "Activation of an account was not a guarantee of service" and we would have to start all over in trying to solve the problem". This after months of doing everything they said to solve the problem. I said cancel the account. T Mobile reported me to credit reporting and continued to bill me and add more money to what I owed.

    I made a complaint with the FCC and soon got a call from T Mobile telling me they would remove the debt from my credit report but would not refund all the money I paid for no service. This representative also said they were doing me a favor because their contract specified that service may not always be available. I pointed out that that was for outrages not to provide an account with no service. He stuck by his interpretation. Sad thing is I thought this was a pretty good company except for customer service. I'm still out for the $60.00 I paid for the stick (which I returned) and the monthly amount I continued to pay through this. BE VERY CAREFUL WITH THIS COMPANY.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPriceStaff

    Reviewed June 24, 2014

    I was sent a message on Sat. advising that I needed to pay my bill or my phone would be shut off. I am on their auto pay so when I checked with T-Mobile about this, I was told to ignore this as I was signed up for auto pay and the bill would be paid this way as it always has been. Got a text message Sunday morning and they have turned off the phones due to non-payment. Again, I called T-Mobile and no one can explain why this has happened but told me to check with the bank as they were probably the problem. Told them I already had and was told by the bank that the money was there but T-Mobile had not sent a request for it. Told to call another number which I did. They knew nothing and told me to wait till Monday to call another number they had given me.

    This did not satisfy me as T-Mobile had no reason to turn off the phones... so I ended up calling another number and was finally told that T-Mobile was doing some upgrades and they had wiped out the auto pay accounts in doing so. I was never contacted telling me they had wiped out the auto pay accounts. The woman did finally give me three days of free service (hopefully, this is what she said) but changed me to a different account that is worthless. I am to call them on Tues. and see if I can go back on the no contract account I had before or if they are going to try and put me on a more expensive plan.

    I have written a letter to the BBB as this is not the first time T-Mobile has done upgrades and stopped my service due to their problems not mine. I have already looked into another phone company as I am under no contract with T-Mobile and would never be under any contract with any cell phone company any more. It will depend on how much opposition they give me tomorrow if I stay or leave. No one knows what is going on in this company... That is the reason for so many problems. The ones who work with customers just answer the phones. They cannot tell you a solution to any of the problems that the consumer is having. They have got to fix that for their service to get better or else they will continue to lose customers! I use to recommend this company to my family and friends but no more. Just how many customers can they afford to lose?

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    Contract & TermsSales & Marketing

    Reviewed June 22, 2014

    In collections on my Credit Report for $333 from T-Mobile...

    2009 August, purchase of two year long unlimited data plan for T-Mobile MyTouch 3G handheld computer phone ** was twice verbally modified (contract) by T-Mobile before I cancelled account for misleading and false advertisement over what is exactly meant by unlimited data usage and failure to perform as promised in so called two year contract. First problem occurred in NOV-2009 when T-Mobile cut off data usage after reaching 10GB in 30 days and explained that was the limit. Then later in MAR-2011, T-Mobile cut off data usage after reaching 5-6GB in 30 days and tried to explain that was the new limit to adhere to...

    The second modification of contract by T-Mobile motivated me to look for better solutions that included canceling T-Mobile two-year agreement for failure to honor agreements made in AUG-2009, with respect to unlimited data plan promises that T-Mobile made before starting to charge extra to its customers for tethering their phone data plan to other devices. This is something that later T-Mobile customers were stuck paying more money for...

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed June 21, 2014

    I took my son on the June 12th 2014 to Costco to get him what he wanted after achieving honor roll on his report card; it was a phone that he worked hard for all year. So we get to Costco to add a line to my T-Mobile family plan... 2 1/2 hours of waiting and was told by T-Mobile a system glitch is on my account and it will take 2 hours for a supervisor at T-Mobile to fix the issue and until then they told Costco to issue it as a new line and took a $10 deposit from me over the phone. They would have the issue fixed by then and all I will have to do is call them anytime after 2 hours and they would transfer the new phone number to the existing family plan. At this time Costco had closed and we were only people other than employees left in the store. My son had fell asleep on one of the lawn chairs waiting for the exciting prize he had won killing the whole moment for us. So I agreed and we walked out with his phone on a new (temporary) plan.

    I get home and after 2 hours by this time I thought it would be ok to call and get this out of the way. After being on hold and repeatedly being transferred from one rep to another specialist, I was told that I would have to wait until Sunday for the feature to be taken off and the line to be transferred. The rep promised me they would call me on Sunday to make sure its all clear. That phone call took 2 hours and a lot of holding and explaining the situation.... Which was exactly what I was told wouldn't happen because the rep who was on the phone with us at Costco notated the account...... No one sees any notation, so I was left to explain over and over and over. Sunday rolls by no one calls me so I call in the late evening and I call to find out there was no ticket made and the transfers and same explaining happened for another two hours until a rep says I got it all fixed and you should see your son's number on your family plan in 2 hours.... Very relieved. I said thank you and hung up.

    The next morning I check and no such transfer has been taken place! Monday I talk to three more reps and transferred over and over and after one hour of holding T-Mobile rep gives me the same promises and tells me that he will fix it all by Thursday and I won't have to talk to anyone else, he will call me back...... Thursday rolls by and no call! Today is Friday and I have talked to two reps on the phone and one rep online and they are driving me around the same story that they have to open a ticket and see and call me back...... I'm very tired and very upset and I'm still on hold on the phone. Its been 5 hours, I'm still waiting while I'm typing! This glitch is not my fault but I have been on hold and given numerous stories for countless hours and 7 days of frustration its very sad. I've been a customer for 8 years: 2 years personal and 6 years business. This is very bad customer service to waste someone's time and promising things that they didn't keep!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed June 20, 2014

    I deposited $50 into my prepaid account approximately one week ago. Since then I have texted far more than my average, due to the World Cup matches. I was told today - one week or so since my account showed 480 minutes, that I had used up all my minutes and needed to once again add to my account. I would have had to send over 400 texts @ 10 cents/ea - as I made only one or two phone calls during that time. When I "chatted" online with a customer service rep, she said I had also used picture to message. I don't even know what she was talking about, as I've never used that feature or even knew I had it! When I asked her to please give me the number of texts and phone calls I had made since my $50 deposit, she said she was not able to do that. I had to deposit another $50 - I would advise you to stay away from this plan.

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    Coverage

    Reviewed June 18, 2014

    Coverage has been great in my city and most places I go. I have only left the cities a few times and each time the coverage was horrible.

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    Customer ServiceCoverage

    Reviewed June 16, 2014

    In February 2014, my son and his Fiancee were promised by T-Mobile at the South Shore Plaza, Braintree, MA that if they canceled their current AT&T plans by getting T-Mobile phone contract that T-Mobile would reimburse them for ETF. Also at that time, they were promised a military discount. After waiting months, they were asked to resubmit paperwork which they did. Still no response, today (6/16/14) his fiancee went back to the South Shore Plaza location and were told they were DENIED (it's been 4 months and they never got anything in the mail). They were also told that T-Mobile did not honor the military discount. They explained that they no longer want T-Mobile and were told they'd have to pay over $800 to cover their cancellation fee. They were scammed by T-Mobile. I would like to warn other military families that T-Mobile offers military discount but doesn't honor it. They are asking for ConsumerAffairs help with this matter.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed June 16, 2014

    I was excited to switch to T-Mobile to save money. It has been a headache from the start. Now we traded in our phones through the mail because we had done all of our transactions over the phone and the department managed to give us a reimbursement for the cheapest phone in the box and 2 iPhones are lost. I am so angry and very upset about switching.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed June 12, 2014

    In early May 2014, my husband and I went into the T-Mobile store in Forestville, MD on Donnell Drive to purchase a cell phone for my husband. We spent about 4 hours in this store because they are very inefficient. To try and make a long story short, they swiped my credit card several times as they seemed to be having trouble with their credit card machine. I did not find out until about a week later after checking my bank statement online that I had been double charged.

    I called T-Mobile and they gave me the run around for over 4 weeks. They sent me back to the store, told me to work with my bank, told me to call this number and that number. When I went back to the store, the sales person wrote an apology note on a sticky note and said he had no way of returning my money. All the customer service reps and managers promised they would send a check, then promising they would send a pre-paid debit card which neither was ever sent. I had 15 representatives from T-Mobile promising me that they will send the money within 7 to 10 business days (which passed at least 3-4 times). They never gave me back my $338.00. Then they swore they did so I asked where is the paper trail of someone cashing a check or using a pre-paid card. They could not produce it because nothing was ever sent to me.

    This is a lot of money to just take from someone and not return it. It caused a lot of mental stress for my family and household as things were already financially tight during these tough economic times. I complained to the BBB. Five weeks later, my bank did a return of the money but they should have never had to get involved. All T-Mobile had to do was put the money back on my card or send me a check and all would have been forgiven and I would have remained a loyal customer, but I plan to switch my wireless service within the next couple weeks. I just want consumers to know that this happens and the laws do not appear to be tough enough to protect the consumers as of yet, but I think if we continue to bring awareness to this sort of thing, it will get better.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingStaff

    Reviewed June 12, 2014

    I am trying to signup as a business customer, I was in touch with a local sales rep named Ryan **. He told me to email copies of my business documents so he could get the deposit waived. So today I emailed 3 times (none got to him) then I sent him EVERYTHING all over again by text. Only for him to tell me it still was not enough, I had to send him a current paid phone bill or utility bill, which I do not have. He stated that he could not help me. Now he is on vacation and I am out of luck. So, I am going to report this as a scam and ID theft. The only person I want to hear from at T-Mobile is someone in your Corporate Office, all others will be ignored.

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    Contract & Terms

    Reviewed June 8, 2014

    My contract was set up for 60 months free call allowance for £17.50 a month. If I go over the allowance they were meant to put a cap so that I will get a text massage to warn me for reaching allowance. But they failed to do that. Now two bills came to bill is £120.63. I'M NOT GETTING ANYWHERE with T-MOBILE saying it is my fault.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed June 6, 2014

    I paid my bill on June 3 and nothing happened. I called on the due date June 5. I was told I hadn't paid since May. The bank took money out on June 3. The bank said it was sent from T-mobile. T-mobile has to resend something. The bank is holding the money. T-mobile said I'd receive a call that day, I didn't. I called again and again. I was told to call the refill center. I called three times before I got a live person. She was not friendly. She said the payment was denied because of my address. They had questions about it, and I did not call back. No one called me. She said there wasn't a phone number. That didn't make sense. I informed her that I did have a phone from T-mobile. She said I can pay now. I said fine, but I'm not paying for a day that I had no service (June 5). (She never asked for information on my address) She said I had to. I said no it's not my mistake. She said there's nothing she could do. She said customer service will help. They said they could not. They don't see a payment. I was told if I paid today it will start today.

    My phone started going out. She said she made notes to the account. I called back, there were no notes. I was told the same story again, no payment was made. Call the refill center. I wanted to get a live person. I was given a direct phone number. I repeated the number back to the woman. I called it, it was an auto parts supply. I called the refill center number I had. There was no option to speak to a representative. I called again, my number wasn't recognized, so I was transferred to a representative. It was customer service which told me the same story. No service yet. My phone is only 2 mo. old, can't afford to change.

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    Contract & TermsPunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed June 5, 2014

    After 10 yrs of paying on time service got worse. I called was told it was my phone and if I stayed with them they would send me 2 phones that would work. After 1 yr it got really bad. They then told me I was in a dead zone and would not charge me to terminate the contract. Now I am told to pay $350 for Iphones that are junk. Or it will go on my credit report. I so sick. What can I do but pay.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed June 5, 2014

    I switched my phone provider from ATT to Tmobile because they said they would pay my early termination fees. This was on Feb 28th. I have searched online for the status and have called numerous times with no luck. Here it is June and I ended up having to pay the ATT bill out of my pocket which put me in a bind. I need help in getting my money!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed June 4, 2014

    Brand new Samsung S4 has never been able to make calls, sometimes it would go through, but most of the time I couldn't hear anything. I went in store 2 times, called tech support 2 times, did online support 3, all said it was fixed. Still isn't.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed June 4, 2014

    I moved to the T-mobile, $2 Daily, UL Talk Text, 2G Web plan on March 23, 2014. I started off with a balance of $100.10. I was told I would be charged 2$/day if I used the phone. I was told that as long as the phone was on wifi, I would not be charged of data usage if any. Since March 23rd to June 1st, I must have used the phone a max of 15 times. But on June 1st, I was told that my balance was $1.10. When I called customer service to ask what the problem was, they said that since I'd not put my phone on airplane mode, it had used the data plan every single day when the phone was switched on. I wasn't made aware of this when I signed up for the plan. I work from home and have good wifi 24/7. I rarely use the phone.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed June 2, 2014

    I purchased an Apple 5C phone from T-Mobile Park on April 17, 2014. However, on May 18th it completely stopped working and a message popped up on the screen saying "this IPhone has been lost. Please call me. **" I have the receipt which will be attached. I took the phone to the store and I told them this phone is not working. They took the phone and the worker said "where did you find the phone" and I told them that it was my phone and I did not find it anywhere, but I did not have the receipt with me at that time. The workers looked at the phone and gave it back to me and said they cannot fix it and sent me to the Apple store.

    I went to the Apple store. Someone came and helped me and I told them about going to the T-Mobile store and they sent me here. I was told to make an appointment. So I made an appointment. The worker said "that someone locked my phone and no one cannot fix it." I therefore asked someone to call T-Mobile because I cannot speak English well, and they were on the phone with T-Mobile and Apple for 3 hours and no one would solve the problem with the phone.

    The solution T-Mobile gave us was to once again call Apple, and Apple told us there is nothing that they could help me, and that it seems like I was sold a phone that belong to someone else. I then spoke to T-Mobile again with the results and the employee on the phone kept putting us on hold and telling us that we should take the phone to the police. They also said that there was nothing they could do.

    I paid 647.43 for the phone and right now I do not have a phone nor the money that I paid for it, which resulted in me turning to you in hope that you could help resolve this issue. I need the phone in order to get in contact with my daughter's daycare when she is there. You can also call **, the people helping her with this issue.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed June 1, 2014

    Discussed with online agent, incomplete information provided and later request to unlock phone was rejected as it does not meet requirements. Now wants me to pay for their inefficiencies.

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    Verified purchase
    Customer Service

    Reviewed June 1, 2014

    I have had two horrid experiences and have thrown in the towel. First, was a prepaid account that we had to pay for monthly service in advance. When we cancelled, we were billed another month because T-Mobile advised us you pay for the prior month. My son researched when this change was made, since we were made to prepay, which was about half way into our 3-year ordeal, and they did in fact convert their service plan. What they did not do however, was EVER credit me my prepaid and said they could not go back and see that, so we got zapped for another month of service. Not cool.

    Second problem, started before this other outcome, I purchased a T-Mobile 4G Mobile hotspot. I was never able to activate minutes via the website as advertised, so this created a huge problem, since two of the weekend retreats have no cell phone access, only WiFi. So I had not used it due to the hassle of having to call, but decided to try again, knowing I would have to do it over the phone before I left. Again, would not work! I called T-Mobile to manually fill my data, and after about an hour on the phone, was advised my number on the 24th of May 2014, with a sim card that said it must be activated by 5/28/2013, which it was immediately activated, was given to someone else, and I would have to pay for another sim card. I advised them this was their screw up, and was told they would next day one to me which I never received (with a tracking code of the resolution). Called over a week later, and am not being told, I have to pay for my sim card again. This is when the screw me twice analogy comes in...

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed May 31, 2014

    They got me pay $270 down for Samsung S4 and within less than a month Samsung S5 came out and they told me they would return my $270 if I return S4 and switch to S5 by paying $310 down, which I did. Finally, they told me I'm not getting no refund. Same company, different customer service, totally different rules. Finally I ended up paying $270 down for the phone I already returned and plus $10 for equipment installment plan - that's not fair.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed May 31, 2014

    I had T-Mobile several years ago. Had it for years, was a preferred customer, got discounts and lower rates. My daughter and I were on the same plan, paid bills ahead of time. One day my daughter wanted her own cell plan and went to Verizon. I called T-Mobile to take her off my plan. Two (2) months later she was still on my plan and I was being charged. I spent three (3) weeks complaining to various Customer Service Reps about this. They refused to assist me until I pay the current charges and make the account current. Funny thing about all this was that they admitted that all my information and requests was in THEIR Notes. I finally got a supervisor who was able to remove my daughter from my account and remove the excess charges.

    Two (2) months after this I decided to drop T-Mobile and go with a prepaid phone with a different carrier. When I called to cancel my services the Customer Service Rep was rude and unruly. I did however, pay my account until the end of the month and was assured that the amount I paid was complete and no additional charges would be needed. I informed the Rep. that I was dropping them. I then ended up being transferred to their RETAIN Dept. where they try to convince you to stay with T-Mobile. After hearing their sermon for a number of minutes I interrupted the Rep and advised him that I was current on my account, had paid in advance so my account balance would be zero and that my service with them was over. I tried to hang up but the RETAIN DEPT Rep advised me that he could not stop my service until he completed his checklist(???). I told him that according to the previous rep, we were good on the amount owed, that he billed my credit card and that I no longer wanted their service.

    At this point the Retain Rep again stated that he needed to complete his checklist or he couldn't discontinue my service. At this point I disconnected. The bad news to this story is that I recently found out that T-Mobile continued to bill me for the next two (2) months. I only found this out recently because I checked my Credit Report and it showed that I was being pursued by a Collections Company for non-payment.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed May 30, 2014

    I am disgusted as I have a 4g phone and I cannot get service most of the time. Where I live-Spring Hill, where I work- Temple Terrace and at my daughter in Riverview. I am in the Tampa Area. I have called several times and get the same run around that you received. Now they told me it is a low connection that they are trying to correct. I am looking for another carrier. I don't understand why sprint, AT&T and Verizon don't have these issues. They are quick to lure you in. Every time I see the commercial that they have the best 4g, I could get sick.

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    Staff

    Reviewed May 29, 2014

    We have been with TMOBILE since 2011. Our experiences have gone up & down over the last 2 1/2 yrs. Here recently they have gotten worse. In Sept 2013 we added a 3rd line. We were told that it would be $170.00 with taxes, could be a little more because the representative didn't know the exact amount of taxes. Just an estimate but we were reassured it would not be more than $190.00 per month. That included 4gb of data to 2 of the phones & 2 gb of data to the 3rd phone. That was fine. In October we never received a paper bill & paid over $200.00 & each month we were paying over $200.00 per month. We had some family issues going on at the time so I was preoccupied & continued paying them whatever they billed me.

    Well 2 weeks ago on 5/17/14 I started reviewing all of our bills. I called TMOBILE & spoke with 2 different representatives who figured out that I had been over charged by $94.99 in the last 8 months so my account was credited $94.99. Then I get a text message from TMOBILE the end of last week stating that my current bill of $282.22 was due. $282.22 that must be a mistake. So I did an online chat with 3 different people staying online for over 4 hours. Each one has told me the same thing. Last month they credited my account $94.99 which came to $118.00, but this month the charge was for $282.22, when asked why I am told because they credited my account last month.

    They credited my account last month because they have overcharged for the past 8 months, when I tell the new reps this they said they only see they overcharged me 1 time. When I ask how my bill is $282.22, they said, "you had a past due balance of $213.66, we credited your account $94.99 which brought it to $118.67 then your new bill was due & it was for $213.66 as well which made a total of $427.32, but you paid $118.67 therefore your new balance is $282.22." When I tell them there math is completely wrong they tell me it isn't. I have no idea what these people are trying to do but they cannot explain anything correctly & I know they have overcharged me & now they are charging me for the adjustments they made.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed May 29, 2014

    I put in an application, fully expecting zero down as "excellent or good credit" was the criteria for "zero down". Instead I was asked to put $300 down, the amount needed for "rebuilding credit". I ran all 3 credit reports and received high 700s which in anyone's book is "excellent" and tried to get T-Mobile to explain why I was put in "credit D, instead of A". And exactly who qualifies for zero down. No one would answer me. All they would say is the judgement was made by someone else and according to my credit report and history. I told them my credit report was 19 pages long and zero negative reporting.

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    Sales & MarketingPrice

    Reviewed May 28, 2014

    Overcharged all the time, bait and switch, exorbitant charges.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed May 28, 2014

    Got into a contract with them based on data package and could use WiFi for calling, etc. Well, the "technology" didn't work and the phone(s) would not auto-switch between WiFi and network - it would require a restart.

    To make a long story short - I agreed to settle the final bill $$ with them on May 5, 2014 with a $225 credit on their part for the "early termination" fee. I hung the phone up, watched the money leave me account and 11 days later I get a past due notice from them (for the early termination fee that was "rejected" by upper management without notifying me). HOW Is THAT LEGAL??? So, I just get off the phone with the Financial Services Dept. supervisor, Alfonso, who tells that the credit was rejected by upper mgmt because it was not an "legitimate" reason to terminate early. And that if I had any more complaints, he could give me the address for corporate.

    Unbelievable! I need to get the word out to other consumers that these guys are over the top CORRUPT in their business practices. I almost would think this company is headquartered overseas somewhere because these customer service reps have been brainwashed to not use their heads. Whatever happened to "good" customer relations? T-Mobile DOES NOT CARE ABOUT CUSTOMERS

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    Customer ServiceCoverage

    Reviewed May 26, 2014

    Thank you for sending me a broken refurbished phone that does not work for a hundred dollars. ** you in the ** sucking ** - I actually needed a working phone but T-Mobile butt ** you when your phone breaks. Internet and location didn’t work where phone did. I wish I knew I’d get a used piece of ** hone for paying insurance fees and a deductible. ** you in your shady ** T-Mobile. ** you very ** much. If I knew you were going to send me a used piece of ** I never would have chose T-Mobile. I want a full ** from start to finish you lying thieving **.

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    Customer ServiceSales & Marketing

    Reviewed May 26, 2014

    I went in on day 7, 15 and 30 signing on to T-Mobile. My neighborhood and workplace are in a low area. I get no phone service and do not always have access to WiFi calling. I told reps me staying with T-Mobile was contingent on getting cellular service. They reprogrammed my phone, gave me a new SIM card, reroutes me over 4 months to various branches of Customer Service. They are unable to give me a signal, yet they will not accept the phone back and say I have to pay remaining $378 balance to walk away.

    I have already paid over 400 in monthly bills for service that I cannot receive. Now, they have resolved the time has passed for them to accept the phone back, but this is due to them intentionally running me around for four months. I have been scammed. No service will cost me a little over 975 for four months. Their customer service is not helpful nor resolved to conclude with what I feel is an ethical resolution.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPrice

    Reviewed May 24, 2014

    I got my bill (2 phones) and my partner's phone had gone over the allow text messages (we have 300 allowance a month!). I noticed that several texts were billed up to 5 times for the same message. We rang T-Mobile and they said it was us sending long messages, which we know is untrue. I checked on my phone a message. She sent me a very short message but we were billed for it 3 times. T-Mobile were useless. They gave us all sorts of excuses. Basically they said technical support says, "** to you," end of. I rated T-Mobile for a long time, but what with keep increasing our plan price even though we are on a contract and this joke of a bill, it's bye bye T-Mobile. Anyone else had this problem?

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed May 24, 2014

    We recently signed up with T-Mobile on March 12, 2014. We went to the store located in West Mifflin Pennsylvania. We left that store confident that we would be quite satisfied with the product. We purchased the iPhone 5s, Samsung Galaxy S5, Samsung Flight II, and two lesser valued phones which we bought outright that night. We even upgraded the data plan for the Galaxy 5 and iPhone 5s to make sure that we would not go over the data usage. We were very excited.

    Two weeks into having T-Mobile service, we began to realize that we were getting very little service in and around the areas in which we live and frequented most namely our place of work, school, ball fields, soccer fields, dance school, friends and families' homes as well. This became very discouraging to us. Better yet, we realized that the only way that we are able to use the iPhone and Galaxy in our home is using our WiFi. Without our WiFi we are unable to access the internet. But this is the least of my worries which leads me to my next point.

    As I have said, we are lacking service a majority of the time to the places we frequent. My son having the iPhone 5s is unable to use his phone at school, the local ball field which his ball team practices frequently as well as many of his friends' homes. Yes I did say friend homes. With this being said, anytime that he needs to get in touch with me, he has been using his friends' phones to text and/or call me. My worry is what if he has to call me or my husband and I have to get a hold of him in an emergency? What are we to do? We have been missing text and phone calls right and left (not receiving them till hours later where service is available). This is a real concern as we have depended on cell service for quite a few years now.

    Just recently my husband had a tire blow out on his way to work. He ended up being about an hour and a half late (thankfully he is the boss but his employees are depending on him to be punctual). Yes, he had difficulty changing the tire because he has never changed it on our new van. Because he had no cell service, he could not call AAA for roadside assistance. He almost gave up and began walking to the nearest gas station miles away but was luckily able to do it on his own.

    My worry.... What if it were myself and my two younger daughters in our van perhaps stranded on a long stretch of road with no gas stations, stores, or anything in sight for miles? I asked that of the T-Mobile customer service representative. I even asked what would she say to a family member of hers if this happened to them. She ignored my questioning and continued on with the memorized dialogue that is provided by their superiors.

    Another scenario/situation: Let's just say that the power goes out in our house with my son 15, and my two daughters 7 and 9. Perhaps my husband and I are not home. How are my children to get a hold of me when there is nothing powering my WiFi as the power is out? What if they get scared and are wanting to call us and simply can't get a hold of us because they can't complete WiFi calling? WE HEAVILY RELY ON OUR CELL PHONES GREATLY. I am greatly concerned for the security that we have come to rely on from our phones but have all since lost since going with T-Mobile. We have very active children and are on the run constantly. My husband and I are always in contact making sure that each other is up to speed on who is taking who to their events and if someone needs picked up, etc.

    My husband and I tried 21 days into the plan to return the equipment explaining this plainly and clearly but all we got was a run around from the reps on the phone. They said that we could not return out equipment because we were past the 14 forgiveness period. So we asked if we could just continue paying the monthly bill for the 3 phones as we are currently doing when paying the monthly bill (the lesser value phones were bought on site) and then have them unlock the phones to use with another carrier. The concerned representative said that the only way that they would unlock the phones would be if we payed in full the 3 phones off for the amount of $1700. Obviously the average American is unable to do this. This sickens me that they would not remedy this problem.

    Not once were we alerted to by the sales rep at T-Mobile that we would have extremely poor service to no service in our area. I have not yet experienced and observed 4G service. I see everything but that if not nothing at all. It is upsetting that a cell company would do such bad business and allow customers to go experience such difficulties. I just recently looked at the map of cell towers in our area. There is one and it's not near where I live.

    I am writing this long letter in hopes to get some help with this issue. I am really not sure where to turn to. I simply don't have money to throw around and I feel that we have been taken. I have been searching the internet as of recent and reading other customers dealing with the same issues. I am asking if anyone can direct me to any service and/or person that may be able to help us.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed May 23, 2014

    Filed BBB complaint concerning cell phone tower outage approximately late March through early April 2014. Was told by T-Mobile rep that a part went back order for the tower and I would be compensated for dropped calls and service outage. Due to a long ordeal of less than a 6-month period of being a subscriber with internet and phone service problems, I filed a BBB complaint after T-Mobile failed to issue compensation for the 7-10 day period for the cell tower repair.

    Was lured into signing up and purchasing substandard equipment (told to hang internet hotspot in window like Christmas ornament to maintain connection) by being offered discounts I did not qualify for. Tried to terminate service within time limit but let reps falsely assure me that service problems would be resolved. Have had more problems with T-Mobile in less than 6 months than I had with over 10 years of cell phone contracts combined (Sprint and Cricket).

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed May 22, 2014

    Since November of 2013 (and possibly before that), I have had several problems with my account that no one can seem to fix. First off, let me say that somehow my EIN number that was supplied to T-Mobile (and double checked by your company for accuracy) was mysteriously changed by persons unknown to me. This has caused numerous challenges in my multiple attempts to fix the other issues.

    The second issue is similar to the first, in that by another odd coincidence, that through an unknown source, my bill pay was changed from mail via USPS to a direct draft through my checking account that I share with my fiance. hmmmm.. Yet again, when I inquired about this to multiple supervisors, they could find no evidence that I changed this via online through my account, by phone to T-Mobile or through the mail when sending in a payment. Nor was it EVER set up that way when I originally opened this business account.

    THE HUGE PROBLEM: The checking account that you are attempting to repeatedly do an EFT is no longer receiving direct deposits, because of hacking issues. Because I have tried for 6 months or longer to get T-Mobile to stop the payment method that I never authorized or agreed to, this has recently caused us to have over $561 in payments and overdraft fees. Which of course, when they go unpaid, the bank has the right to deduct from another account by the same holder. Yep, this happened last week and caused our rent check to bounce, thereby causing further fees that we are now indebted to. Therefore, I have absolutely no money to pay my past due account for another 10 days.

    If you feel the need to suspend my cell phone and thereby also further limiting my ability to get caught up financially, then by all means do so. However, do note that if that happens, then I will need to find another carrier, as my phone is the only way that clients and family can talk with me directly.

    The third challenge is that I have tried to change my billing address and physical address, both online and over the phone. Please note that my billing address is PO BOX **, FL, as it was when I started a relationship with T-Mobile. My physical address was changed by me, in person at a local store, to **, FL. I have also attempted to do this online and have been unsuccessful in my numerous attempts.

    Now, please know that I am a business person and used to dealing with privacy issues, since I am a licensed Life & Health Insurance agent. I understand that your service department cannot tell me what EIN number my account was switched to. However, please be aware that the ability for several internal errors such as this are incomprehensible. If I were to change a clients EIN or SSN# on their insurance policies, or arbitrarily change their billing method, without their knowledge or approval, I would be fined heavily by the DOI, possibly lose my license and face fraud charges. IJS

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed May 21, 2014

    I was T-mobile customer for 10 years, the last 2.5 years I had a prepaid service and I was happy with it. I did auto-refill from my credit card on monthly bases and that way I didn't have to worry about my service being disconnected or low balance. I never felt like I am using a prepaid account because everything was done online and was set up years ago. On 05/01/14, while on vacation I woke up in the morning and noticed I have no service. I thought, because I was in a very small town in California, maybe there is no network. Two days after that, I arrived in LA and I realized either my phone is broken or something is wrong with my carrier. I called T-mobile and I was told that someone called customer service and requested a number transfer to AT&T and the caller was able to verify my 4-digit pin. I told T-mobile that I didn't call and the password I had was rarely used by me and even I had to think to remember it.

    I wanted to keep my number but AT&T doesn't want to give it back. I spoke with some T-mobile (retail) employees and I was told that it happens quite often when active numbers are being mistakenly moved by T-mobile's system to a pool of inactive numbers for sale. Once the sale is made, T-mobile discontinue the service and the number belong to someone else and because it's a prepaid service, nobody really cares. When that happens by mistake in their system, T-mobile comes up with THE story about a caller who wants a transfer and a verified pin number. So basically T-mobile says we don't want to take your 32$ a month for years ahead and we will let AT&T do that instead. So after AT&T refused to give back my number, I realized at least they stand behind their customers and don't just sell them out, so I bought service in AT&T.

    I called T-mobile more than 10 times trying to get my number back that I had for 2.5 year, they did nothing and on top of everything, they made me pay for one more month. I was charged for period 04/22/14-05/22/14 and on 05/01/14, the service was disconnected by them. My phone number that I liked and I was used to was lost forever. I really wished I was the one who called and transferred the number to AT&T, at least I could have my number now. I was never refunded by T-mobile. Such a pesky and unprofessional behavior. So bottom line is I felt like violated (raped). My number was stolen and I had to pay for it on top of that. I've never thought such a confusion was possible in 21st century!

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    Contract & Terms

    Reviewed May 20, 2014

    T-Mobile is having a program where they will pay off their competitors' ETF that you can use their service. I had signed up since January of 2014 and was told all you have to do is submit the forms and it will pay off the Sprint contract I had which was roughly about $350. I submitted the forms 3 times and I was never paid a dime for any contract or end of termination reimbursement as well as the fact the service and network is horrible - numerous dead spots around New Jersey where I live. I would urge anyone not use T-Mobile to get as much information up front because I felt they were dishonest and they ripped me off!!

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    Staff

    Reviewed May 15, 2014

    They gave me a number that somebody else have and people calling me and questioning me about the person that has my number too. Different people keep calling me everyday. I told T-mobile about the problem and all they said they can do is change my number.

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    Customer ServiceContract & Terms

    Reviewed May 14, 2014

    I started with T-Mobile in 1998 and used them till now for 15 years. Call and data quality started to decline 2 yrs ago. No matter what phone I tried, the service was horrible. I stopped using the phone completely and called to cancel my contract at the end of the term. T-Mobile continued to send me bills after I cancelled. Bottom line, they like to bill after your contract is over.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed May 13, 2014

    Each month, I have to study my bills for extra charges. Last month after about an hr in the phone, the rep could not explain the charges and she credited that amount. This month, the rep would not credit the extra fees. I am leaving! I have only been with T-Mobile for 6 months. I hate them.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed May 12, 2014

    T-Mobile, Pearl Harbor connections - Over the last three weeks, I am not able to use my SG3 phone. I am not able to call out, incoming calls goes to voicemail, my internet 4g sits idle at E.. Or sits at 4g and does nothing. I spend more time trying to use is that the battery wears down fast enough and then when I am able to use it battery dies. I have called T-Mobile over the phone. Was helped to reset, factory reset, reset all to default setting, works for about an hour then back to same issues. When I drive around Pearl Harbor, it's useless to use handheld, GPS, or even make a call using Bluetooth capabilities. My phone is busy updating all the time that I need to keep hone in a charger all day everywhere.

    My recent phone to a tech.. I was told I need a landline (Sorry I work and live on ships, we don't have any) or was told to ask a "friend" to use their cell phone and call back. I have asked them enough now that I am at a point that either my phone or the carriers goes first. I'm pretty sure my 1k phone will be the last to leave. I am on unlimited calls, discounted rate for overseas calls, unlimited data and my bill is roughly about 100 US. If T-Mobile does not figure out what's going on, then it looks like i'll be another former customer and according to other people I have read and know, AT&T and Verizon are the fav.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsCoveragePriceStaff

    Reviewed May 6, 2014

    Where to begin? I recently had a very bad experience with T-MOBILE. On Saturday May 3, while out of town, my HTC one device lost all ability to connect with the T-Mobile network. After about 5 hours with the dreaded 'X' on my notification bar I decided to take it to a T-Mobile store. It was confirmed to me that my device was broken and needed to be replaced. No big deal right?....wrong! So the friendly lady at the store filled out my order, checked my address and I was pleased that the issue would be handled. I was to receive my replacement today via UPS (it's Tuesday by the way). I get home, no phone...so I check my tracking #. I find out that the replacement had been shipped to Augusta, GA...only a mere 116 MILES AWAY FROM MY HOME in the Atlanta suburbs!!! Needless to say, I was furious! I called T-Mobile to figure out just what in the world is going on.

    They of course blame EVERYTHING on UPS. Never once did they offer to take money off my bill or give me any compensation whatsoever for this huge inconvenience! I spoke to 2 different managers (one of which was completely rude) neither of which helped me in any form or fashion. End result is that I now have to wait another possible two days to receive my replacement device, mind you I'm still without coverage under T-Mobile... I cannot make or receive phone calls, texts or use most applications on my current 'broken' phone. Basically what I have is a very expensive MP3 player and camera... I'm shocked that T-Mobile offered nothing at all as to a solution to fix this mistake on their part, nor did they compensate me in any way at all. I'm very dissatisfied with their company and can't wait until September when I'm no longer under contract!

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsCoverage

    Reviewed May 5, 2014

    No cell phone service at Carriage Club (Clare Bridge). AT&T has coverage there, but T-Mobile doesn't. This is within the City Limits of Jacksonville, Florida. This is a Senior Living Facility where my mother lives. This has been reported several times to T-Mobile but nothing changes. I'll be switching to AT&T as soon as I can get out of my contract without paying exorbitant early termination fees to T-Mobile. There are hundreds of residents at the facility that can't be reached by cell at the facility.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed May 1, 2014

    I called T-Mobile and had my 3 phones shut off and had early cancellation fees added to my bill. I was making payments to my account and they turned it over to a collection agency and didn't notify of this, and I continued to make payments until account was paid in full through T-Mobile. I had my money going out of my bank account on a schedule electronic payment base. This collection company says they are representing T-Mobile to collect a debt of a past due amount, which was the money I paid T-Mobile. I have been going around with this collection agency about the money and sent them banking statements going out to T-Mobile for over a year. They said that they reviewed the statements and said that I still owe the money. How can I get this resolved without paying an arm and a leg.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsStaff

    Reviewed April 29, 2014

    Be aware of T-Mobile Reps and supervisors. Promise after promise. April 4, 2014, I called into T-Mobile to inquire a Samsung Galaxy 5S. I have 1 line prepaid and 2 family lines under my wife name with T-Mobile contract (contract expire on Oct. 2014). T-Mobile representative convinced me to open a new account with 3 family lines and assure that my wife will not get any early termination fee. He also promised that the SIMs will arrive by April 8. On April 8, I called into T-Mobile and inquired the status of my SIMS. Nothing was shipped and I have later received on April 11.

    This critical delay caused me to pay for another month of prepaid. I was told that I could buy a new phone at any time without penalty or extra cost by the same T-Mobile Representative. On April 14, I decided to place an order of (qty 1) Samsung Galaxy 5S and (qty 1) for iPhone 5S. Online promotion showed that Samsung Galaxy 5S will be overnight. April 16, I received a status from T-Mobile that iPhone 5S will arrive on April 17 and Samsung Galaxy 5S will be deliver on April 21. This is nonsense and unacceptable - when the promotion showed overnight.

    I called to T-Mobile representative on April 16 and explained my issues. I was told to pick up a phone in nearby T-Mobile. I also found out that my 3 new lines were automatic activated on April 4 and already billed with $130+. I was told by the same representative that she will waive the $130+$30 and will give me a follow up call on April 24. So, I did that - I went to pick up a Samsung Galaxy 5S on April 16 in Capital/Aborn T-Mobile. I was away for 1 week vacation in Las Vegas. On April 24, I called T-Mobile reps to transfer my 3 lines (2 lines from my wife and 1 prepaid) to a new family plan. On April 25, my prepaid line was transferred; but, nothing happens to my wife 2 lines.

    On April 27, I have called T-Mobile again and asked the transfer status. I was on the phone with a supervisor for nearly 2 hours. I was told that he has to charge my wife for early termination ($200). I was furious and outraged. Finally, he assured me that he will waive the termination and old numbers (3 lines) will be rolling over to my new family plan. He also inquired regarding my phones. According to T-Mobile records It showed that I have received 3 phones (2 Samsung Galaxy & 1 iPhone 5s). I told that representative that I was away from Las Vegas for 1 week; I don't recall to receive a Samsung Galaxy 5s in mail. Therefore, I have to dispute this claim.

    As far as my knowledge, I have only (qty 1) Samsung Galaxy 5S and (qty 1) iPhone 5S. He has put in a request for a trace and investigation. On April 28, my line (1 line) was terminated. This is unbelievable! When I called T-Mobile and requested to talk to a manager, I was told that no manager is available until 24 hours later. Since April 4 until Now, I have continue to pay for 6 lines (3 lines from new plan; 1 prepaid; and 2 lines from my wife) and wasted nearly 10 hours conversations with T-Mobile's representatives. I need the commissioner to look into this T-Mobile practice. This is unacceptable practice. For nearly 24 days and I still haven't get my account resolved. I have received promise after promise but nothing really happen; otherwise, then a chaotic and my line disconnected... I need this to be resolved and compensated.

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    Customer ServiceCoveragePrice

    Reviewed April 27, 2014

    I was happy with TMobile. No real issues, good pricing and friendly customer service. 3 Years ago we moved 11 miles north. Coverage dropped to 2g - no service, not registered on mobile network. On an average 10 minute phone call, it would drop 4 to 15 times! No exaggeration. Called them, said they are in process of upgrading, please hang in. I did, calling every 3 months to try some new booster or ideas. After 3 years of promising, and thousands of dropped calls, I had to call it quits.

    Today I got At&t. For the first time in 3 years, I could drive hands-free and complete a 10 min call without a single drop. Phone is 4G coverage and that is what I get - not 2g or no service! Sorry TMobile, if you could have fixed the coverage I would have been a customer for another 8 years+. Sad to leave, but left me little choice.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 25, 2014

    I bought a mobile hotspot on Jan 2 and was assured that I could return it within 14 days and just pay the restocking fee if it didn't work. The device didn't work at my home or work. In fact, it didn't work in other T-Mobile stores. I took it back to the store within 4 days. They tried some things to make it work better. I tried again, so I returned the hotspot in another 5 days. Jan 11 was the final return date. I Paid the restocking fee and Cancelled the account. I started receiving bills from the company for the monthly charges. I called the company several times and was flat out lied to. The customer rep said that there was a lot of phone calls that had to be paid for.

    When I explained it was a hotspot and you can't make phone calls with it, she gave me another answer about text messages, or other charges I incurred then hung up on me. I called again and after getting transferred around to different departments, finally someone agreed and said the charges would be removed and this was taken care of. Forward another 6 weeks and I am getting calls from collection agencies and when I call T-Mobile, they say this charge is still on my account and since they turned it over to the collection agency, customer service can't remove it. But they do say I shouldn't have been charged but T-Mobile computer system doesn't allow them to remove the charge. So they are sending this problem to the "offline" team but there is nothing they can do. They are basically telling me that even though it's a mistake on their part, I should pay it to avoid the collection agency placing this on my credit report.

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    Reviewed April 23, 2014

    TMobile is refusing to refund my Early Termination Fee in accordance to their promotion. Due to misfiling on TMobile's behalf, there are technical difficulties preventing this refund to be processed. Although I have all the hard copies to prove that the initial trade in transaction was completed and the store has verified all this information is correct, TMobile refuses to take any manual action in order to issue a reimbursement that I am very well entitled to despite knowing that their technical difficulties will never get resolved. The issue is a result of the store not filing my information properly and due to this error, TMobile is unable to locate the correct trade in information needed to process my reimbursement.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsCoverageSales & MarketingPrice

    Reviewed April 23, 2014

    The Pro's, 1) Price Point 2) Unlimited Data 3) Customer Service (phone) 4) Minor Problem Resolution 5) Product Selection 6) Plans 7) Cleanliness In The Store

    Cons: 1) Coverage 2) Coverage 3) Coverage

    Coverage issue 1-LTE. I live in a rural part of San Diego and was promised LTE was arriving in my area for 18 months. Still not here. Their excuse? They never planned for so many sign ups and the towers are overwhelmed. Hmmm the cart before the horse.... sounds very familiar. Its like me inviting 5000 people to a yard sale... from 7am to 9am and unlimited ribs. C'mon it is so obvious that it was piss poor planning and received piss poor performance. Okay, fine, here is my beef, why then am I paying for STEAK and being served hamburger... I have never received a signal in LTE or 4G, 2 to 3G at best. For the techies 0.08 Mbps to the highest avg 1.15Mbps. I am not a lawyer but to me this is simply false advertising and or Obamanomics, also criminal.

    If a lawyer is really reading this, this may be a simple open close class action lawsuit. It is not fare I or we are paying for LTE price for 2-3G service. To be made a whole scale refund plus the full balance refund plus (x) amount for lost business deals and contract bids on the road AKA pain and suffering, or stock option. They did offer me a signal booster for my house that added A bar sitting next to it... really? If my $700.00 phone needs a cheap plastic signal booster, Samsung may need to rethink their options.

    Coverage 2) dropping calls, see above. Coverage 3) Due to coverage 1 & 2, I need to retry getting the signal over and over and over again until my battery burns out.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPriceStaff

    Reviewed April 22, 2014

    A letter mailed to my home from T-Mobile stated: "Switching to T-Mobile is easy and affordable. We'll buy you out of your current wireless contract-up to $650 per line for your old phones and carrier's early termination fees for up to five lines. No trouble." T-Mobile refused to buy out my early termination fee after I switched to their carrier by saying I did not trade in my old phone within 7 days of starting their service. They NEVER SAID I HAD 7 DAYS! I bought TWO iPhones from T-Mobile when I switched over. Reps said I would have to pay my own early termination fees before they would activate my phones! They were rude and kept switching me from person to person and supervisor Tyler hung up on me. I had to cancel and go to another provider, especially as the service was very poor with lots of static. The bottom line is T-Mobile failed to disclose any time frame for trade-in, locked phones, buyer's remorse, and would not buy out early termination fees as promised. Plenty Trouble!

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    Customer ServiceCoverage

    Reviewed April 18, 2014

    Around last week of August 2013, I stopped my prepaid phone service with T-Mobile because their bad policy monthly service. I never reached the 30 days service of monthly prepaid phone service and was always paying more for the service, always additional payments to cover my monthly service. Due to their bad Customer Service, they never gave important information to avoid future problems with the Service. Suddenly, around February 2014, I totally lost my ID on their website, no more access to my account. Then, I called to customer service and they told me to reactivate my phone service to get back my old phone number, he wanted to check my sim card... and suddenly communication was cut off. (That was my first call.)

    Next day, I called again about how to get back my old phone number. CS told me to buy a new chip, the sim card and then do the process to get back my old phone number. The same day, I went to the T-Mobile store and bought the chip + new prepaid service. Later, I called back to CS and they told me that I can't get back my old phone number because it was already used by another company!!!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 15, 2014

    I recently have been getting several phone calls regarding a balance owed from my T-Mobile account that occurred back in 2010. When I spoke to the debt collector over the phone I was thinking that this had to be some sort of mistake. I had not been notified of any past due balance, I have not moved, my phone number has not changed in ten years, and there has not been a disruption in my service. So to all of a sudden be sent to collections was a shock to me since you would figure that my phone service would have been disconnected. And to have a charge from over 4 years ago all of a sudden show up is also unnerving!

    I called and spoke with a representative from T-Mobile and they were unable to tell me why there was a balance and could not provide proof of notifications sent to me of an outstanding balance. I also asked for them to send any documentation for the charges to my personal e-mail address (which was verified over the phone) and I have still not received the documentation which was requested on two separate occasions both over a month ago. I am very upset with how this has been handled and never received any paperwork stating that I would be sent to a collection agency.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPriceStaff

    Reviewed April 13, 2014

    I first ordered the Note 3 as a Christmas gift for my boyfriend who had a Boost Mobile phone & had the same number for yrs. After viewing T-Mobile promotion that the phone would be offered at 0 down with a credit check or 50 without if purchased by December 2nd, I decided to get it for him. Even though I had the virtual ad and expiration date, the T-Mobile Store I went into would honor it, and the online site wasn't working. However T-Mobile over the phone customer service said they could. They completed my order over the phone and was supposed to save my information being that so much time had elapsed from my store visit to my over-the-phone order that I now was at work and needed them to save my info till I called back with my credit card info in a few hours. However when I called back same day around 5 pm, they had canceled my order resulting in me doing the whole process again while I was at work. After all was completed which took about 45 minutes, I was told that the phone was now on back order and would take longer to get than told.

    Once we received the phone, we ported his number to his T-Mobile phone. We later saw an ad on a store window that said they were going international. Since my boyfriend is from another country, we went in to inquire about this but we found out his country was not on their list for free or discounted calling but we as T-Mobile customers now had the ability to make and receive calls from Canada in Mexico with no additional charge or changes to our plan that all T-Mobile customer had this option now. This was confirmed by the other 2 clerks in the store totaling 3 T-Mobile representatives' validation.

    I told my boyfriend that he could now call his Aunt back who lives in Canada when he misses her call. I expected the first bill to be high since it combined two people to one plan with two phones, a Galaxy S4 being mine which I had for 4 months prior to adding him to my account and his, the Note 3. The 1st bill was extremely high, and so were all the others that followed from the time we received the phone until March when T-Mobile terminated our services. The bill had consistently been between $184-$360 which I was told it would never be over $140 when I inquired about several times before purchasing his phone or adding him to my plan. I asked specifically because I knew he didn't like high phone bills. He came from a prepaid 50 dollars a month unlimited plan from Boost Mobile and was unhappy with their customer service being extremely difficult to reach an actual person, and unhappy with his phone performance, as well as their payment options. T-Mobile was higher but only by 20 dollars which I was told on their recorded line for quality and assurance purposes which we now know was a lie.

    Our phone bill was extremely high, and though reaching customer service was better and easier than Boost and his phone was nice, they always had reasons to keep it high. One of the reasons 1st presented was that those free calls to Canada and Mexico told to us inside of their store and by their representative was inaccurate and was only supposedly valid if we were in Canada or Mexico. They only agreed to drop some of the international charges to Canada from the bill. Next they said my boyfriend made international calls to his country which he said he did not but once using some app that claimed he could for free for less than 10 seconds cost us over 80 dollars so I had International outgoing calls blocked being that I was the primary account holder. After that it was because we had high speed Internet which we and I always had; once that was dropped and our phones operated slower than dial up, the bill was 284 dollars.

    We made payment arrangements which we just finished paying the high bill the month before. Our phones were shut off like 3 times each time resulting in a 20-dollar additional charge. We were involved in a Car accident and fell behind on the 284 dollar phone bill. This was conveyed to financial care. We offered 200 dollars on arrangement to pay that day and the rest of the 84 dollars the next Friday and was told that would not restore services. They completely deactivated our phones because 1 of our extensive bills was past due 30 days though we tried to make arrangements; some we were behind on by one week; the rest they wouldn't agree to. Even though we had made a payment that month it was for the previous month so that accounted for nothing with our current payment to validate to them we wanted to keep our services.

    After many month of complaint about a high phone bill that was only supposed to be 140 dollars a month $70 per person, it just became too much. We called to try and get the phones turned back on and was told we were charged an early termination fee among other charges and that if we wanted to have our phones turned back on or try and obtain our old numbers which I have had over 7 years and my boyfriend had his since he first came to the US, we would have to pay 1590 dollars. The phone has only been off a little over a month. They will not try to set up in arrangements to cushion the blow on top of us being set back from our car accident.

    I have bragged and been a loyal T-Mobile Customer Over 7 Years. I Do Not know if it is because they have grown a lot, but now they lie about their plan rates. The customer service while most are nice or professional, they offer no valid solutions. They also give different and inaccurate information with no accountability for their consumers' finances when the fault is on them. And they added additional charges to our bill without or consent. It's as if they do not want us to keep their services only to charge us more. If we were making payments and setting up arrangements and constantly communicating our displeasure in our expensive bill and if we were also communicating our financial hardship at the time, why would they deactivate and charge us more than 1500 dollars when it was becoming increasingly hard to pay their 180 to 300 dollar monthly phone bills?

    I know it is not their job to keep up with your bills but I called numerous times about these high bills since I added my boyfriend and as many things as I could get taken off our bill, they would add another and defend their inaccurate communications or lies with another unreasonable explanation. I am sorry I got my boyfriend's number lost or brought him to their money pit. After 7 yrs, I never thought adding 1 person to the line with an additional 25-dollar phone installment would exceed the 200-dollar price range on average. We didn't have an over the top plan or purchase many extras - a $3.99 movie here or there and caller tunes.

    I'm very upset with the way our bill was handled and all the money we invested in them over the years. They can't still be ranked number 1 in customer service and those commercials they have about adding a person or person to your line, the Share plan or whatever they are calling it, for cheap is a total lie to draw in people. I had very few problems with them and use to love and brag about their customer service until I added a person under their false pretenses which has all probably been recorded multiple times on their recorded line. When are they ever going to take accountability for their inconsistent training and miscommunication or misleading of their consumer and their consumers' money and finances?

    This situation with T-Mobile has caused additional stress and regret to an already unfavorable situation we were thrown into. I hope this info helps anyone considering joining. Unless you pay the full price of the phone and keep that phone and never upgrade and sign up under their Jump no contract plan, there is no reason to have their services or any company except for prepaid and not T-Mobile prepaid or Boost. The only beneficial thing about any major carrier these days is if you can keep your number. In the end they are just coming up with new plans disguised as affordable and convenient but actually just a set up to find a more creative way to take your money without you knowing or spending more or getting less out of your phone capabilities or your service providers network; it's more for their net worth. Once a company gets too big like T-Mobile did, keeping your roots such as customer care, or consumer satisfaction is put to rest and padded with unreliable statistics and surveys. I will be sending this in an email to their new CO. The one they had in 2011 was good and he cared. I wonder why he is no longer there?

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingStaff

    Reviewed April 10, 2014

    My phone will tell me that a message has been sent. Then I will find out the person I sent it to never got it. I also will not receive texts that People have sent to me. The same goes for calls - with receiving calls and making them. I and my friends will never know that the call was made. I know this is not because of my phone also because this has happened with all three phones that I have had with T-Mobile. The majority of people at my school that have T-Mobile share this same problem. T-Mobile sucks and it will ruin your social life and their representatives will lie to you and say it is your phone's fault that you get miss texts/calls when myself and all the other people I know that have T-Mobile know it is just the poor service. Also they will scam you on as many small fees as possible such as a warranty exchange. Even when you buy a phone that has issues with it, they will charge you to get a working model of the phone. Jump is a scam. You will save more money by buying a phone and then selling it to get your money back and buying a new phone with that money instead of turning in your phone to wipe off the balance so they can resell the phone to squeeze more money out of your poor choices to be with them.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsStaff

    Reviewed April 9, 2014

    On 11/25/2013, I decided to try out T-Mobile. I bought a T-Mobile SIM card for $10 for my iPhone 4s in Manchester, CT and found out that the reception at my RV site was non-existent. I was told that if I cancelled it within 30 days - I would just be billed for that period. There was no annual contract to sign, as that was T-Mobile's advertised advantage over the other 3 mobile phone companies. I checked the reception over the next 2 weeks in other areas and also found out that my foreign country of interest had been dropped from the list of 100 foreign countries with unlimited calling from the US. So, on 12/20/2013 (25 days after opening the account) I called T-Mobile and asked to close the account. I was told no problem, and that my balance was $70.44. Although that seemed high, I did NOT quibble and paid that full amount with my credit card.

    Fancy my surprise then, at returning to the US from a month's stay abroad and receiving a phone call from a *collection agency* claiming that I owed T-Mobile $25.53. The collection agency's agent insisted that those charges were "to the end of the billing cycle" and was unable to explain what the $70.44 was for, or how my billing could continue AFTER I had already closed the account and paid the balance at that time. I called T-Mobile TWICE, and was reassured that they would handle this but, the first time - they did not get back to me as promised, and the second time - they said that it was out of their hand "since we sold that debt to a collection agency".

    I believe this is a very unscrupulous and totally unacceptable behavior on the part of T-Mobile, such that I have NOT encountered with other cell carriers, such as AT&T! I definitely will not have anything to do with T-Mobile, and would like to hear from others as to what successful measures they have been able to take against T-Mobile in similar situations.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 9, 2014

    I was thinking of getting 2 phone lines so I could keep in touch with my teenage son. A lady waved us in while we hit the mall before Christmas time. He ran his credit. We got the phones. T-Mobile has denied me access to my account due to him being the account holder. The lady who sold the phones to me promised that T-Mobile would not put him on the account. They made him entirely in charge of the account and never sent one bill to my address. (We do not live together and are not a couple). Phone calls to the company end in getting nowhere. Possible that their customer base is too large for them to handle. We had service added that we never asked for called the Jump program which was more money taken out of our pockets.

    I told them to restrict my son's phone line for a time and turn it back on when he is off foundation. I called back to turn it on and they asked for a $20 restoration fee. Now the SIM card is off and they want me to purchase a brand new card. They suspended my account when I have already paid 317 dollars for one month of unreliable service. I was thinking about just taking the loss and buying new phones with a new service provider. They don't tell you when you buy the phone it only will work with their service company. Beyond frustrated with this company but at least the lady made her commission before the holidays.

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    Reviewed April 8, 2014

    So I go to T-Mobile and switch from AT&T yesterday and had to go back and pick up a phone for my son - the same model I have - its voice quality is poor and for doing business it isn't good enough and I wanted to get a different phone for myself and the rep today said, "Oh its good enough he listens to phones all the time." I explained about being an audio engineer and he said it's okay. I asked to talk to his district manager who was there yesterday and he refused to put him on the line but talked to him like I wasn't there.

    After asking to speak to him 3x and he refusing, I took my stuff and got in a yelling match with him. Called customer service after I left and they talked me around and someone said they would call me back by noon - didn't happen. Called executive offices - talked to Stephanie. She said district manager won't be there till Sunday and I had to wait or go back to the same store and talk to the same guy and exchange it. I said, "The phone is still there, I will simply go to another t mobile store and choose my phone." She said no, I have to go back to that guy.

    After a long argument trying to go to a store where the district manager was, she said no have to wait to see him till Sunday or go back to the same character I dealt with this morning - I can't go to another store. So eventually she said there will be another person there later and that I still have to go there. I asked to speak with her boss and she said no one higher than her. Everyone has a boss. It means that they have no care at all whatsoever about their customers - just sell then the customer's problem is they are all like that or they have terrible connections.

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    Reviewed April 6, 2014

    I've been with T-Mobile since VoiceStream (1998) and always had some customer service problems but lately in past two months, not just customer service also receiving paid service to my phone. I have no signal at my work and I have to use WIFI in order to be connected to outside world. So I went to T-Mobile store last year and salesman told me I need to get 4G LTE white Samsung Galaxy 3 to have best coverage so I did and guess what. That was a lie. Anyway in past two months, T-Mobile is switching some stuff around and now I have even worst connection away from work plus my voice mail always send new voice mail to SAVED VM and not marked as new VM and there is no little logo for new VM received.

    I called T-Mobile and they told me they are switching to something new called Visual VM system and they will be more than happy to change it back to old settings. After 2 hours on the phone and they calling me back at work number, my VM got set up and set to work but only for 72 hours and went back to same stuff... Call again and still same story. And again and again and again till last time, I called I spoke to "Marianne" who told me basically it is what it is and if I don't like beat it. They can't help and she can't figure out what's going on so I ask her for manager and Marianne hung up on me.

    I called back, got to manager and she told me she understand I have bad connection and problem with service but they can't waive any fees. If I like to cancel contract since I got phone for discounted price. Go figure. I have to pay for service but you can't provide me with service which I paid for it and what discounted phone has to do with connection or service problems? Anyway, today, I decide to switch to anyone else so I called T-Mobile and "Richard" told me I have to pay $200 cancellation fee which I was aware of it but also I have to pay 1 month fee $79.99 for taking my phone number to other carrier, $80 for month worth of service and whatever I used for this month which cost will be prorated.

    How the heck this works? He told me to read paragraph 3 on signed contract but guess what, there is no paragraph 3! Also on entire page only was noted by T-Mobile if I cancel this contract, I will pay maximum $200 for services and cancellation fees and goes down by how many months was left on contract. I have year left so I know I have to pay $200 but pay $80 plus taxes for taking my phone number plus one month fee? Is this correct or this guy was just blowing candles around? Please let me know. After 15 plus years marriage to T-Mobile, time to get divorced due to bad service plus LYING customer service! Why pay for something which doesn't work! SIMPLE! Nobody does. If I don't pay them monthly fee, will they give me a free service regardless?? NO! They will send me to collection.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed April 1, 2014

    I have been a T-Mobile customer for about 8 years. I have had a family account with 3 individuals listed on the account. I very seldom use the phone so I wanted to take my name off of the family plan and instead buy 1000 minutes for 1 year for $100. This would save me about $1750 per year. I am on a fixed income with a limited budget and this will help. I called the toll free number and after working my way through a series of electronic options that, for the most part, did not allow me to get to the right department finally got to speak to a live person.

    The long and the short of this story is that I spent over an hour on the phone, was disconnected twice and had to call back and spoke to 10 different people being transferred from one to another because this department isn't the one that does that. How do they stay in business if they can't handle a simple transaction - remove me from one account and set me up on a second one? So supposedly the new SIM card will arrive tomorrow and I can set up the new account but there is nothing else to do today - I am off of the family plan and in limbo. The message here is - don't use T-mobile. Their customer services sucks.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 1, 2014

    Back in October 2013 we decided to leave AT&T after 20 years and called T-Mobile to see what they offered and what was their plans for a son being deployed overseas. They ran credit check no problem, no deposits required. Ok we said we will not be porting over until the end of November 2013. I was told by CS to let them know when I called back that there was credit check on file in which I did. We brought our paid for phones and numbers with us so I assume all is good. Ok well my son gets ready to deploy and I call to let T-Mobile know this. Well told my son needs a chip in order to use it overseas. OK.

    He goes to the T-Mobile store in Norfolk, Virginia, says that his mom was inform that he needs a chip and they looked at him like he was crazy. Told him he didn't need one. Well he leaves, emails me from his ship, the U.S.S. George H. W. Bush, CVN-77 headed to Russian Waters. His email says his phone isn't working even when there is WIFI on the ship. I call, well for those with non American accents I guess they could not understand that when I signed up I stated I didn't need a credit check, there was one on file not I want the no credit check plan. Well that's what I got so I tried to make changes for my son's phone. Nope can't because you're on the no credit check.

    Now this has been going on for 10 days, hung up on 3 times 4 times, stated can't help. And I get one that help after 3 hours on Sat., got things changed. Get on phone, told them what to do: take from this acct. and put on this other one that was created. Nope the customer service person cancelled that acct. Now I'm struggling to get it back and because they made the mistake they want to run my credit. What a bad mistake leaving AT&T. I plan to file with FCC.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed March 31, 2014

    I decided to go to Verizon after being with T-Mobile for about 17 years and because I ported out my phone they are trying to say I have to pay for a full month instead of a few days. I didn't want to leave but I got a cheaper plan from another company. T-MOBILE would not deal so it wasn't worth staying with them anymore. Now I'm glad I left. They are money hungry to make me pay a full month when I used 3-5 days of service. Then they even tried to send me to collections before even sending out the monthly bill.

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    Reviewed March 27, 2014

    Purchased a T-Mobile prepaid data plan. After putting in SIM card, I could not get a signal. Called the company as was told there is no signal in my area. Tried to get refund. They told me no, went through my credit card company and they got money back. Then when I tried to put money on my AT&T card, I was told that my credit card had a block on it from T-Mobile using vista and I owe 40 dollars. I had to pay back the 40 dollars plus 5 dollars for the bank charges so I can use my credit card on AT&T so I had to pay 45 dollars for no service on T-Mobile.

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    Contract & Terms

    Reviewed March 25, 2014

    I just received a $500 debt for T-Mobile month to month pay as you go service. Supposedly, even though there is no contract, there is a minimum time you are supposed to keep the service, but apparently T-Mobile likes to keep that a secret. What a bunch of bank handed big business. They should be ashamed of themselves. I will never give them a penny ever again!

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed March 23, 2014

    My mother purchased an apple i-phone with T-Mobiles plan to pay 2,000 a month for the phone. After a while, she got dissatisfied with T-Mobile service she just paid for the full price of the phone and moved to another carrier. T-mobile blocked the phone which is fully paid and so is the bill. After we called and complained, they said that it is their policy and that after 14 days they will unblock it...

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed March 19, 2014

    T Mobile was a company I was with for decades. I started with a bag phone. In case you're unfamiliar, the phone was in a gym bag type arrangement and connected through a cigarette lighter in a vehicle. Although the batteries charged huge heavy batteries, I only used it while in my vehicle. The customer service experience was horrific. The calls were sent overseas to persons who nearly understood or spoke English. The problems I experienced were resolved then reappeared months later. I never resolved my issues and I'm saddened to give up on a service I had forever. I always liked T Mobile then something happened during the attempted merger with AT&T. I don't know what it was but it went from a first class organization to fly by night.

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    Reviewed March 19, 2014

    On 03/15/2014 I called tmobile to make sure that they had coverage at my address. They said I had 3G. We went to the store and got 3 phones. When we got home the phones had no service. On 3/16/14 I called corp and spoke to Rachel and Yari both told me that due to no service at my house, I could go back to the store and get my phones back and the money would be refunded to me with no restocking fee due to no service and it hadn't been 24 hours. When I got to the store the Manager Trevor refused to return my phones and told me I owed the restock fee of $150.00. I explained to him what Yari and Rachel told me and he told me that they lied and I owe the money. I explain to him that the federal law is 72 hours to change your mind. He told me he didn't care, he wasn't giving me my phones. I turned them into Tmobile. I left the store and called corp back and spoke to Nicole. Nicole told me that I should get my phones back and that she hasn't heard of that. She would call the store and call me back. She called me back and the store said no they refused to give me my phones back.

    On 03/17/2014 I called corp back and spoke to David at 8 pm and told him the story. He told me he would look into getting my phones back and refund my money. His manager would look into and call me back. He called me back at 12:10 am and told me he would look into it more with his manager but he thought I could get my money back and my verizon account paid off and they would send me 3 phones to replace the phone that they couldn't get back. He would call me back on 3/18/14 by 5 pm. I never heard from him so at 6 pm on 03/18/2014. I call back and spoke to Tyler. He said they were still looking into it and wait until the morning. On 03/19/14 I called back and spoke to Gail and told her the story and I spoke to April the sup and she told me that if I don't want the contract they can't do anything and I lose my phones and they won't give me my money back. I told her, "the federal law says you have 72 hours and I have called with that time and I went to the store." She didn't care.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed March 13, 2014

    T-Mobile was my carrier for about 5 years. Since I began using them, they had embedded a charge for "Premium Handset Fee". After a few months with them, I stopped receiving a bill (online or by mail) which I let them know on at least 3 occasions. I called several times to ask why I was not being sent a bill, why I kept paying monthly but still receiving late payment texts each cycle, and how I could lower my monthly rates. During none of those calls, was I made aware of this fee or where my bill was actually going each month. While changing some features of my plan online, I was made aware of the above charge. I called to find out what was wrong.

    After taking a look at my history the representative told me that it had been attached to my bill from the start and that it was not supposed to have been, yet they could not compensate me for "something like that". The next day my service was cut off and I received a message saying my account was in collections even though it was up to date. I had to switch to a new carrier on the 8th of March and T-Mobile is now saying they will charge me until March 16th and I can't make a final payment to close out my account. I posted complaints on their website, which also disappeared and finally, they blocked me so others can't read the truth about the situation.

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    Staff

    Reviewed March 11, 2014

    We had two accounts combined into one TMobile family plan and an inept girl lost all my contact information. After this was discovered, the staff was unable to retrieve the information. Why are less than knowledgeable people working behind these counters. They wouldn't even give me a $25 credit for my troubles. Shame on TMobile and the staff at this location!

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    Reviewed March 11, 2014

    Bought my cell thru internet T-Mobile. The phone (NOKIA) worked fine for two days and then would not send text, receive calls, etc. I was a new customer w/ prepaid plan but ended up spending three of the five days trying to get the phone to function. Customer service is outsourced. They give you the run around. Lie to you, say they will call back - don't and don't speak English well. They all talk to you as if they are scripted. They NEVER solved the problem!!! Then the camera portion quit functioning so I packed it off to them. I will not pay a restocking fee as this is not mentioned when you buy phone. Also I had to go through credit card co. to get refund on prepaid as they REFUSED to credit me after only five days, a new customer with basically NO SERVICE. Stay away from T-Mobile. They don't care about your time or want your business. Can’t imagine a discount carrier could be any worse!!!!

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    Reviewed March 11, 2014

    We cancelled phones and switched to another carrier. We are still getting billed. We paid up front for the month we used and are still getting billed for that month and another month even after we ported numbers to another carrier.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPriceStaff

    Reviewed March 10, 2014

    I have been with T-Mobile since 2005 and have had several contracts. In 2012 I took out a 'FULL MONTY' plan for my teenage daughter, over the phone which the sales rep explained meant inclusive minutes/texts and data. This I felt gave me peace of mind as I explained the pitfalls of picture texts/08 numbers, etc. However, it has come to light that 'THE FULL MONTY' does not in fact live up to its name when my daughter’s bill for one month was £650 over the contract. (Just as a guide, Virgin will alert you if you go £100 over your contract and Vodafone alert you when you are reaching any limit on your plan). This was because of phone calls to her friends mobile which we both thought were inclusive!!

    T-Mobile were totally unsympathetic to my complaint that I was misinformed from the outset. They failed to draw my attention to the sudden excessive use and allowed the cost to spiral beyond my credit limit, which they said was because... they knew I would pay!!! When trying to sort the problem I was again misinformed constantly. SOME customer service reps were rude, obstructive and even judgmental. For example, when I requested a CISAS deadlock letter, I was told three times it was on its way when in fact it was not and was never going to be as no one knew how to generate one!!! The telephone support is frankly useless unless you are paying or buying! I do not blame the individuals necessarily. I think they are inadequately trained and asked to wing it! My complaint is now in mediation with CISAS; however I am really not sure what outcome is in store for me. My advice, even if they seem to be the best value, avoid T-Mobile like the plague, or be very frugal.

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    Reviewed March 9, 2014

    One of the reasons I just left Verizon Wireless was because of a number of problems. The chief of the problems what Verizon for one reason or another, deposited my payment in a different account. And for another reason for some screwy reason, they couldn't mail me a bill out in a timely fashion. Now then with my first payment with Tmobile the payment which I know was mailed hasn't showed up yet.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPrice

    Reviewed March 7, 2014

    This is my third Galaxy cell phone, actually fifth including my child's two, ongoing issues that never are resolved. I have been in a contract for over 5 years basically due to constant changing of cell phones due to existing problems with T-Mobile cell phones. It's a repeated chain of the same problems, over and over again. This recent issue, purchased a Galaxy 4 on January 18, I believe, because of dropped calls, unavailable towers when traveling long distance, cell phone freezing, the charging port is damaged. New phone, same issues, when talking to customer service (Shannon) continued to over talk me as a customer to where she would not listen and was not helpful at all, not to mention that I asked for the Loyalty Dept. to begin with.

    I requested this once again and spoke with Richard, their arrogance and lack of customer service skills, just overwhelms me! I asked about replacing the cell phone and was given an answer of, "We will not send you a refurbished phone but we will send you a 'like new' phone", same thing as refurbished when all is done/ My question is and was, "I just paid into this new cell on January 18 and paid $624.00 plus tax for a new cell, are you not going to make any kind of adjustment in cost?" "No! we want you to take advantage of the offer we are giving you." This is not something to take advantage of, mainly because the customer, meaning myself at this time is losing money and a quality cell phone and had 2 doctors appointments, became upset, have other business calls to make and could not.

    My children were very worried about me, could not contact me and Richard had the nerve to ask if he provided good customer service. I told him no, and this was before I rushed out for my appointments, stressed and blood pressure up. They could have exchanged the phone in the store but its about spending more money on a new phone when you just bought a phone that's damaged. To go to another company would not be that much better either but I'm still also paying for a Galaxy Blaze that my daughter cannot use and have not used for 4 months and this is the second phone for her too. You will end up paying more than less. Even with the insurance, they're ripping customers off with overrated cell phones!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed March 4, 2014

    DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH T-MOBILE!!!!!!!!!! Straight up SHADY!!! So I going to the T Mobile store today because they have a special that you can trade in a blackberry for $200 a new mobile device. So this morning I bring in a blackberry and trade it in on a note 3. The girl I talked to Saturday night, said that every new line you can trade in a blackberry for $200 towards your phone. So after hooking up one phone and paying for it, I go in tonight to get another one for my wife because she liked it so much. So I go in tonight to trade in a second blackberry for her phone and the guy says that the $200 for the second blackberry can only be applied to the first phone, he needs more cash! I tell him that the girl I talked to on Saturday said I could do that. He gets the manager. The manager re verify what the other guy said that he needs more money and the second blackberry will be applied to the first phone not the second.

    Then I tell them what the girl told me on Saturday night. He tells me that's not how it works, read the paper, I tell him I didn't read the paper, she told me that. He then commence into arguing with me telling me I'm wrong and I have to pay 360 some dollars before I get that second phone. So then I tell him that I'm just going to cancel the phones that I signed up for earlier. He tells me that if I want to do that it's $50 for restock fee and I don't get the blackberry that I gave him back. I called him a thief and ask him how that's possible and he told me to read the paperwork.

    So evidently if you trade in your old phone at T-mobile, and you're not happy with the new phone and they give you 14 days to decide whether you want the new phone or not, and you're not happy, they keep your **! So I finally give in and agree to pay the $360 some dollars so I don't get totally ripped off! I look at my phone and this pic of Foreigner the band pops up, again, and as I'm closing the app, I comment under my breath, "Damn, Foreigner". It seems this thief that T-MOBILE has swindling customers for them is an actual foreigner, and he tells me he's not selling me the phone and to get out of the store...... I left.

    An hour or so later, while talking on my at&t phone that I pay for, it goes dead. It says emergency calls only! So they evidently processed my unfinished order even though I didn't pay them yet, and despite the fact that the manager took the phone and said to get out, that he wouldn't sell me a phone. So, I have NO phone! DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH T-MOBILE!!!!!! Incompetence at its best!!! Oh, and he said he'd still charge me a re-stock fee of $50 if I cancelled the first line I signed up for!!! ANYONE BUT T-MOBILE!!!! Share this terrible experience with as many people as possible, and ask your friends to share too.....so on a and so forth....

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsCoverage

    Reviewed March 3, 2014

    Firstly, I purchased my phones, two iPhone 5s, outright from the Apple store. I spoke with T-Mobile person at a T-Mobile store, who said that a family plan, for three phones, will be $90/month inclusive of all fees, and that I can receive a discount because of my affiliations with the state. When service was established, I was told I would have to wait one month after my first bill before the discount will kick in and I had to provide a $90 deposit because it is month-to-month. The first bill was more than $90. One month later, I was also told I could not get the discount unless I provided my social security number on a month-to-month contract and my bill was actually $120.00. I decided to cancel service.

    So, on Jan 25th, 2014, I called T-Mobile to cancel service and asked how much my final bill to-date was, and paid $11.50 - I was told by the T-Mobile representative I would get my full deposit of $90 back in 30 days. On the same day, I moved my phone numbers to H2O Wireless. These numbers originally came from AT&T. 30 days later, I received a bill from T-Mobile for $20, which supposedly covered a billing cycle after my service was terminated. I was told by T-Mobile that they continued to bill me, and took the $90 deposit, and I owed an additional $20 for a service period for which I did not have service (on a month-to-month contract) because that was the policy. There were so many contradictory phone calls on this, at the end of the day.

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    Reviewed Feb. 27, 2014

    I called T-mobile to change my credit card number for automatic payment because my bank issues a new credit card because of the Target incident. I spoke to one gentlemen and he said the system was down and he couldn't do anything. I called and spoke to someone else. After 10 minutes giving information to identify myself again and my credit card info, I again was told the system was down and to do it online. I went online and tried for 5 days. I could get to my account but when I selected changes to account information I was bumped out and had to sign in again and start all over. I never was able to renew my minutes or give T-mobile the new credit card information. Five days seems like an awful long time for a system to be down???

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Feb. 25, 2014

    As someone who only recently decided to go mobile - the ONLY lesson (if you will) that could be learned is you will pry my landline from my cold dead hands - T-Mobile cell phone service is completely unreliable. I can not remember the last time I picked up my landline and had no service or missing calls on a daily basis. T-Mobile service is a joke. I could NEVER be able to depend on this joke called service in an emergency.

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    Staff

    Reviewed Feb. 21, 2014

    I had to port my number from my employer and was told by the T-Mobile representative that the contract would be month to month, with no termination fee if I didn't like the service. Well, the service was unpredictable (two days in DC where my texting didn't work at all). So I switched to Verizon and now am being harassed for a termination fee. I followed the process to contest the fee, and they sent me a letter stating that they told me there would be a termination fee. They never told me this; in fact, they told me the opposite. I asked the rep more than once about any termination fee, and was told over and over that my plan did not have a termination fee. I will probably have to pay the fee so that it does not affect my credit, but I am really angry with T-Mobile.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Feb. 17, 2014

    After several years as a loyal T-Mobile customer, long after fulfilling my most recent 2 year contract, I shopped around and decided it was time to upgrade my phone and switch to a new service provider. After a great deal of research, I decided to go with another carrier (which I am very pleased with). The carrier contacted T-Mobile on my behalf and cancelled my service with that company. I then received another bill from T-Mobile for an additional month of service. I called customer service to inquire about the additional billing. I was told that my contractual terms of service required me to give T-Mobile 30 days’ notice when cancelling my cell service, and I was being billed for the additional 30 days.

    I asked that T-Mobile send a paper billing statement via U.S. Mail, and I contacted my credit card company and withdrew automatic billing from T-Mobile. The T-Mobile representative stated she would discontinue the auto-billing, and would have a paper billing sent to me. Nonetheless, T-Mobile attempted to bill my credit card again, as I suspected they would. I did not receive a paper bill. I then received automated phone calls from T-Mobile's billing dept., followed by (finally) a paper billing, which now stated that I had missed my payment, and now owed $107 instead of the original $46.

    I called T-Mobile cust svc again to address this issue, and my call was disconnected, three times, before I ever got to speak with a live person. Additionally, before the call was cut off, the automated service stated I now owed $162!!... How on earth is this company justifying these very rapidly rising charges? This is very unethical business practice, in my opinion. Bottom line: I will be contacting the Public Utilities Commission to assist me in resolving this matter, hopefully before T-Mobile damages my good credit, and I will never again be a T-Mobile customer.

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    Reviewed Feb. 12, 2014

    My husband changed our mobile provider (from T-Mobile to AT&T) because AT&T offered a better plan that includes his business landlines. We were moving four cell phone lines from T-Mobile to AT&T. We had been a T-Mobile customer for more than 10 years. On January 28 we received the SIM cards from AT&T, but after installing them on the phones we found out they were all blocked. My husband contacted T-Mobile (customer service 611) to find out what we need to do in order to get them unlocked and he was asked to pay the balance of the four phones immediately. He paid approximately $1,300 with a credit card. According to the T-Mobile rep, the following day we were going to get via email the codes to unlock the phones.

    After two weeks and at least 10 phone calls, the phones are still locked and we have not been able to get a straight answer about this situation. With every customer service representative we talk, we get a different answer. But at the end all of them ask for the same information, the EIN number of the phones, phone numbers and type of phones.

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    Reviewed Feb. 10, 2014

    Visited this store yesterday, had a friendly sales person visit with us about moving our 3 lines of service from Sprint to T-Mobile. Told us that T-Mobile would pay the early termination fee for each line that we switched over as long as we turned in a mobile device for each line. We purchased one new iphone, and he showed us how to unlock a current iphone and switched it T-Mobile for us. We said we wanted to purchase a tablet for the third line in a few months, so he gave us a SIM card for that and told us we could come back when we were ready to purchase. Signed all of the paperwork, paid for the phone and plan and we were on our way. Great service, he was able to answer all of our questions, even referring to three other team members when he wasn't sure of the answer.

    Unfortunately, about an hour and a half later we received a phone call that we needed to return to the store. The T-Mobile salesperson had made a mistake - it seems they required us to purchase 3 new phones to reimburse the early termination fees for each line. We spoke with the manager about it, and were told that there was nothing they could do, we could purchase three phones or not have the fees waived for the other lines. After speaking with 7 different people at 1-800-T-Mobile, they leave me with the same options: buy more phones or not have the early termination fees reimbursed. Very disappointing, I feel like we have been misled. BUYER BEWARE, T-Mobile will not stand behind what their salespeople sell!

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    Customer ServiceContract & Terms

    Reviewed Feb. 8, 2014

    I went to a T-Mobile location in Downey, CA at the Stonewood Center because I wanted to get a cell phone since they advertised that there was no credit check to get a line with them with no contract and that they will even help you pay your cancellation fees. Well they did run my credit and wanted me to pay $547 for two lines in order for me to get service with them. I am trying to rebuild my credit that's the reason I haven't gone to another cell company so my credit doesn't suffer. Because of this, my credit report now says that I have another hard inquiry on it and it's T-Mobile.

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    Customer ServiceContract & Terms

    Reviewed Feb. 5, 2014

    I went from T-Mobile to Sprint. I waited until my contract expired, paid off my final bill including the fee for the two phone. I tried to do it the right way. I look on my credit report and there it is. I then contact the collection agency that has my case. He tells me I owe the 317 dollars and they don't add any more than T-Mobile tells them, but the credit report said I owed 254 dollars. I then said for what. He said I renewed my contract. I said no, I did not. He said when I received the new phone I renewed my contract. I said I paid for insurance and my phone was broken so they fixed it. I had two phones on that line. I thought if you renewed a contract it would have been for all your lines. Bottom line I called T-Mobile before I did the switch to make sure I would have no issues and if I did owe money the fee they are charging me is more than the monthly bill I paid. How can that be right?

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 29, 2014

    My husband and I switched to T-Mobile when we moved to CA with the military. We gave them our address and were told that we would have "excellent" service on the base. What a load of garbage... We had no service at all unless we were connected to WIFI... couldn't make a call in the house at all! After 10 months of aggravation we finally got a manager at the store we had purchased the phones and plan at to agree to close our account and waive the ETFs for all three lines. Fast forward almost a year and a half later... we now have a $1350 bill in collections, because not only did they NOT waive the fees as promised, but they only shut down two of the three lines leaving the 3rd one to rack up crazy charges for months before we were even sent a "final" bill. I have spent 6+ months making endless calls, writing emails, letters, being shuffled back and forth between the collection agency and T-Mobile and getting nothing resolved. So it looks like I will be paying a massive bill, not to mention dealing with a now messed up credit report thanks to the blatant dishonesty of this company and their associates. Never ever get service with these people, worst customer service ever!

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    Reviewed Jan. 29, 2014

    Order a phone, got the phone but it would cut off and drop calls after a day and half so I call T-mobile. They asked me to send it back and I done that. After they got the phone back then they tell me they can't just send me a replacement, that I had to buy a new phone then they would refund me for the first phone. I told them that was not an option, what else was there. They said buy the second phone or cancel service so I cancel and they said I would get my refund in 10 business day. Didn't happen. Call them back and got all kind of excuses. This department had to do this and that department had to do that. This all started Dec and still no refund. The worst experience I ever had.. Still getting emails but no refunds and even got a bill. What a joke.

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    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2014

    On 12-19-13 I purchased a plan and phone that was scheduled to be delivered on 12-20-13. I missed the initial delivery. I called the UPS center and was told the device would be available for pick up 12-20-13 between 9:30 and 10 p.m. On Sat afternoon 12-21-13 I went to pick up the phone and after two hours, was told by the supervisor the phone wasn't at the facility. I asked was the phone stolen he stated "it's a possibility". I called TMOBILE to inform them I spoke to a rep named Jolly who informed me the policy was a 3 day investigation. I was to wait until it was resolved for a replacement.

    I called back and spoke to Tanya who told me I couldn't speak to a supervisor because she was on break. When I told her that was unacceptable she left me on hold for more than 30mins. Then Brittany got on the phone. I explained that I was on someone else's phone. I don't have a house phone, I shouldn't be penalized for whom they contracted to deliver the phone and I need some type of resolve immediately. She said she could place another order. I said great. She then informed me I wold have to pay 291.12 for the phone again. When I told her that was absurd because I just paid for one I didn't receive, she told me there was nothing that could be done.

    I called back 12-22-13 and asked for the call to be escalated. I spoke to an acct. resolution specialists who ordered a replacement device in lieu of the one that I hadn't received. The fact remains I was without a phone for almost four days and would like compensation in the form of a credit to my bill, for the inconvenience of not having a phone for 3.5 days and for the poor customer service I encountered when attempting to resolve this matter expeditiously.

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    PriceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 22, 2014

    I leave Sprint (You'll be seeing another complaint for them shortly) because I couldn't receive service for 50 hours per week (while at work). 01/15/14 3:00pm I go to the T-Mobile store and I open an account, this cost me approx $1150 for three phones and new service. First, I was charged to change the number when the sales person never asked which area code we preferred; I am then told it will take 2 hours for my number to port in. At no time did she tell me that if I don't wait until the 19th I will be charged an additional $34.00 in prorated fees and taxes. I get a bill THREE DAYS LATER for $216.12 after I was told that it would be $130 before taxes if I didn't add additional services after leaving the store. I was prorated for three days, and I was charged $34 for the number changing, which the sales person didn't tell me. I spoke with T-Mobile, they removed the $34, they removed one day for one line from the proration which was approx an additional $4., they refused to remove the full three day proration although I was not aware I would be charged. Then I add a discount to my plan and I am told it will take 60 days to kick in. Lastly, the bill is due every three weeks not every 30 days but you prepay for the month. So, you pay for 30 and get 21. Please Help.

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    Contract & TermsStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 21, 2014

    Tried repeatedly to lower my bill with T Mobile, was with them for over 7 yrs. After the final try, I shopped around and found Verizon could do better by $200+ per yr. I gave T Mobile the deal and simply asked them to meet it, or get closer. They could not but told me I was out of my contractual period & overdue for an upgrade on both cell phones. I told them I was leaving. Verizon ported my numbers on 1/16/14 but on 1/18 when I called for a final bill amount, I was told I will pay a $100 termination fee plus a full month's bill $124 for not giving 30 days notice. I asked for a supervisor. To my utter shock the supervisor upped the termination fee to $110. 45 & my final bill would jump to $144.56, they took away my JPMorgan Chase discount for the "penalty" month. She also refused to transfer me to her supervisor & said "No one at TMobile will give you a different story."

    I asked for my contract so I could review it & was told they can't send me anything but they have the right to enforce it because they "say" I still under contract. I'm checked their Facebook page, message boards, made an FCC and BBBonline complaint & will be mailing their corporate offices in New Mexico. My husband is a 100% disabled US Veteran & I'm retiring at 57 to care for him. I simply was trying to cut our monthly expenses. I feel beat up and abused by a dishonest company.

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    Customer ServiceCoverageSales & MarketingStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 21, 2014

    I was the stupid one at first. I paid three times what my Galaxy was worth... As I later found out when a friend showed me the one they had. Right from the start the phone would not hook to the network. Kept coming up "not in network" and the sales people kept saying that nothing like that had ever happened before. I looked it up and many many people had had that problem. I CORRECTED IT AS BEST I COULD WITH NO HELP FROM T-MOBILE... JUST MORE BS. THE PHONE ONLY WORKS ON WIFI in my house. I get nothing ..no signal until I'm 5 miles from home. I usually have to hook up to someone's WiFi. Awful coverage... awful. As unreliable as their customer service. Their billing cycles change with the weather. Every time I try to pay ahead on the phone... equipment... it does not go thru... It's always a mess and messes up the bill and I have to start calling again. Most of their reps have been very very rude... and no help at all. I would not recommend them to ANYONE.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 20, 2014

    I have been with T-Mobile since 1992, and for the past year I have nothing but billing problems and poor customer services. But the straw was today when they would not give me a micro sim card for my unlocked htc vivid. I just bought the phone but haven't decided if i should keep it, and needed a micro sim card. The kiosk told me they will charged me $19.95 for it, I called..because I didn't buy the phone with them, I will have to pay for it. And that!! Is the straw that broke the camel back, going to AT&T tomorrow or prepaid. For a onetime fee of $20, they rather lose a customer that pay $70 a month....wow T-Mobile that's good math. Oh yes, reception had gotten worse since October 2013.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 19, 2014

    I signed up with T-Mobile with an iPhone 5 from Apple in 2013. Two months later my iPhone handset was stolen, I reported it to the police and contacted T-Mobile immediately. I was paying $12 or so a month for insurance on the $750 iPhone handset. When I called T-Mobile to report it stolen, they told me if I paid $175 deductible, they would replace my iPhone. I did not have the money at the time and called back 3 weeks later to pay the deductible, after being without a smart phone or service, and they refused to honor the insurance or replace my iPhone, AND had re-sold my phone number! They said they could give a new phone number, but I had already established service with another carrier. I was in discussions with T-Mobile about the accuracy of my bill at the time and they reported me to the credit bureaus for not paying! T-Mobile charged me for handset insurance and refused to pay when the phone was stolen. T-Mobile gave my phone number away. T-Mobile told the credit bureaus that I was turned over to collections. I complained to the government and still do not have a resolution. Beware! T-Mobile Sucks!

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    Contract & TermsStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 17, 2014

    I am sorry to say I was with T-Mobile for over 12 years! I always had questions about my bill because they would change the names of their services and several times I found I was paying multiple times for the same service (like their "internet plan" and their "hot spot at home" and their "T-Mobile hot spot"). Every time I asked a CSR to review, they would end up subscribing me to some different plan that they said would be better based on my usage, but by the time I left T-Mobile my bill was over $300/month and I felt duped!

    Before leaving, I contacted their customer service to find out exactly what the costs would be to end the contract early. I was advised that because they bill in advance for the monthly service, I would still have to pay my current bill (which I was about to pay), would receive no prorated credit of any kind, and had to pay $300 in early termination fees because two of the lines were still under contract, so my total due would be $589. I decided those terms were acceptable and I switched to AT&T. The same day of the switch, I contacted T-Mobile to try paying off my balance but they said I had to wait until the 16th for the ETF's to show up.

    Today (the 17th) I called T-Mobile to pay off the bill and suddenly I have charges totaling $936.92!!! They said that I was under some old billing plan where I was to pay after the month of service and as such I owed for Jan and December. Why on earth wouldn't the CSR who was looking at my account on the 3rd, or the one looking at my account on the 4th, have known that? I think they deliberately hide the truth behind changing policies and service plans and justify made-up numbers and not even their own full time employees can understand it... why on earth would a consumer? Good riddance, TM!

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 11, 2014

    I have always owned my own phone handsets as I have traveled for many years and have use T-Mobile PAYG. I have been based back in the UK for the past three years and I was convinced by EE sales rep that it would be best if I had my phone on the contract with T-Mobile. I explained I use PAYG as I have different SIMs and when I reach my country I just have to change my SIM card. I decided to give it a try and was going to New York and contact the support service to confirm the requirement and to clarify there would be no problem. I arrived in NY and there was no reception, the person connecting me was having difficulty, I could not contact my bank, my email would not allow me to access my email as it was from a different location and they could not confirm it was genuine. I was unable to confirm my connecting flight. I sought help from a T-Mobile US and was told that my phone was locked. On return, I contacted customer service by phone and the staff was uncooperative. I wrote a letter terminating my contract - no response. As I had not had a reply, I rang and spoke to another customer service who was understanding. Now T-Mobile want to take action saying I owed them money and in addition my phone is locked. What action can I take against them?

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsCoverageStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 11, 2014

    We have a winter home in Bonita Springs FL. Our T-Mobile phones always worked until this season. Now we have no network coverage. We have been told it is a problem with the towers. Then we were told it would take 72 hours, then we were told, 72 BUSINESS hours. Now we are told that an eagle's nest is preventing them from fixing towers. If we drive 1/2 mile away, we get coverage. Very frustrating. Their customer service reps try to be helpful, but most speak on "auto pilot" the script they are taught when hired. Our contract is up in April. I am concerned and believe we need to switch companies at that time. Perhaps a class action suit for lack of performance on their end of contractual agreement?

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 6, 2014

    I am a disabled individual residing in Schaumburg, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. There 8 million people in the metropolitan area of Chicago. The cell phone rarely works anywhere except on major expressways and on WiFi! I am trained by Motorola in cellular communication. I am a former Verizon wireless senior technical consultant. I have no idea why this phone service rarely works. I have never experienced phone service like this, and I can't even for the life of me imagine why it is this poor. The only reason I have not changed is because I can't afford a new phone! Emails take almost 2 hours to send! The only service near me is 2g. Not the 4g or LTE that is advertised except at the nearby Woodfield Mall where there is LTE.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 5, 2014

    T-Mobile charged me $723 in my last bill by mistake. After a call they apologized and returned $548 to my account saying that a $175 fee was supposed to be paid. I checked my bank account and I realize that the $175 was actually paid a month ago. I call again and very quick they recognize this second mistake. I advise all T-Mobile customers to double check their bills. T-Mobile systems and personnel don’t seem reliable anymore. I’m glad that I check often my bank account and I keep all my accounting up to date.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 4, 2014

    I had Tmobile service 3 months and from the word go one problem after another. All 3months I had to call about my bill. I have 2 phones supposedly unlimited everything (talk, text, web). First thing not unlimited web. You hit 2.5 service drops down to 1g. My bill suppose to be $140.00 monthly. They send bill stating $300.00 I owe. Talk to multiple people every department and got hung up on once.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 4, 2014

    I was actually an employee with this company, no longer there and so happy to not be there anymore. That company is all about money, they don't care about their employees but try to act like they care about the customers. Now customers can make payment arrangements but us employees cannot. They cut my phone off because I was rude to customer service because I as the employee call in and had to call in 30 times to finally get a payment arrangement and I had to call from my boyfriend's account because they kept routing me to this same rude rep, thinking my issue was resolved, the rep was actually a sup promised me. He put a hold on my account and service wouldn't be interrupted.

    At 11:00, I could no longer make calls. Mind you, a normal customer can still receive calls but me being an employee could not make or receive calls which wasn't fair as well. Next day, I tell them what happened. Finally speak to a supervisor after calling over 50 times to get the arrangement I was promised from the beginning, go and make that payment and phone was turned back on. Head to work. As soon as I get to work I see T-Mobile calling me back. They tell me that the supervisor told me incorrectly and if I don't make the payment of my current and past due once off call, they will disconnect my phone again.

    Mind you, I have children who need to get in contact with me. They don't care. Now I agreed to pay past due but not a bill that just came out yesterday that wasn't even due yet but he said no. Long story short, they cut my phone off. I was also discriminated on at work but that would be another long story. Best advice, don't go to T-Mobile for phone service or employment.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 3, 2014

    At the beginning of my contract with T-Mobile, I was given a fixed price that excluded the taxes and added costs that came later in my first bill ($93). Fine. I paid my bill promptly and awaited the day that my contract ended. At the end of my contract they have switched the billing cycle - first telling me that I was paying the month ahead, then that I was paying the last month - anyway charging me for an extra month and the weeks of my use under contract. They kept switching the billing cycle - that I was paying for the last month or the month ahead. Then, after speaking to reps twice and clearing my dispute, they continued to send me the bill for the full month - that, according to them, was going to go into collection for negligence. This, after paying my bill promptly for two years. Needless to say, the reps declined to help me or give me the response that I received initially - telling me that I had to pay for only partial service before the contract expired. I now seek help in this dispute and it is added grief after having to deal with them for two years, paying a hefty monthly fee.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 31, 2013

    I have been a customer of T-Mobile for almost 10 years, and my mother for 8. Three years ago we merged our accounts and got a family plan. They had no trouble putting my number into her plan, and we only had to pay $10 extra for unlimited text. Neither of us use web on the phone so have never worried about it. Recently my mother decided that we should get a 3rd line to add my father on as well. She checked online and it said both her phone and mine were eligible for an upgrade and that there would be no extra charge for a third line (that we could have up to 4 on the current plan).

    Mom went to the T-Mobile store, since she wanted the sales person to show my father how to use / set up his phone (very technologically illiterate) and the man at the store said that what we had seen online was an "online only" price. Our plan would double in price to add a third line, and that we would have to pay $70+ to upgrade each of the phones and get the new one for Dad with the SIM starter kit.

    So we went home and checked out the website. We found phones we liked, deciding that we'd get the SIM card for Dad and put it in one of the older phones and get new ones for myself and my mother. Except every time we tried to add a second item to the shopping cart the previous item would disappear! My mother grew so frustrated because she did not want to have three shipping charges on one order. So she called the customer service line.

    The lady we spoke to first had no idea what she was talking about, kept trying to sell us the $100 plan with x data package and the bells and whistles which we kept saying we didn't want. She said we needed to talk to someone in the web sales dept to get help with the online purchase and had to talk to another dept for the new line activation. We did speak to a nice gentleman who was about to add the 3rd line and sent out the SIM card for it... but we still have been unable to successfully order the new phones (one was a refurbished so online only) after talking to three more customer service people. Hopefully we can get it straightened out soon.

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    Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 26, 2013

    I am currently w/ Verizon but contract almost done and I was looking for less expensive cell phone service. I found Tmobile. I ordered a phone which was listed as refurbished but explained that they are thoroughly check by Tmobile people and are like new. Well it took a week to get my phone in and when it did get here there was no activation card in the box so I had to call Tmobile to get it working. The rep would ask me for order #s etc and read them back to me and she was wrong so I corrected her on her input and she would say "that's what I said."

    Anyway, got it activated and the $30 card included w/ my phone was invalid. I scratched the #'s and gave them the info and it's invalid. What!? So they fixed that (I think) and was wanting to use the phone. It kept shutting off and I thought maybe it was the battery so I set it up to charge. For hours.... and it still wouldn't charge. I have another charger and it wouldn't work on the phone either. I put in my old phone w/ Verizon and it charged as normal. So I called Tmobile, tell them I am sending back the phone and I am not happy. I was transferred 4 times and then was disconnected. So I had to call back. Again transferred 4 times. All this time while speaking to a rep before being transferred all the reps would say "you want a replacement phone." I said NO! I want to return this piece of junk.

    Last rep I got said I could take it to a Tmobile store and get a refund. I explained to her I had purchased on tmobile.com and not in store. She said no problem take it to Best Buy or Walmart. I didn't believe her and asked her if she was sure? She said yes. So the next day I went to Tmobile store. I had looked up what time it opens so I could be there when it opened. I got there at 915am and the store was locked up still. I went back to my car and called them on my Verizon phone and asked them what time do they open. He said 9am. I laughed and said I am right outside and door is locked. I got a bit upset that I was calling from outside the store and said he would unlock door now. They said they could not take the phone back as it was purchase on tmobile.com. I KNEW IT!! WHY WOULD THE REP TELL ME TO TAKE IT TO THE STORE!!!????

    So I boxed up the phone took it to UPS store and the gal there said to me. "You want me to take the Tmobile box and ship for ya?" This was before I got to the counter. I asked her how she knew. She said we see them all the time going back as their stuff is always broken. So I came home to call Tmobile again to tell them the phone was on its way back to them and I wanted a refund. Again, transferred 4 times and every time the rep would repeat the numbers back to me incorrectly and I would correct her and they would say that's what they said. HUH!!??? I better get a refund and quickly. I have never been so steaming mad at a company before. They should be ashamed of themselves.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Dec. 24, 2013

    I use T Mobile's services for 2 cell phones. I use the pay as you go service - I pay for a certain amount of minutes and then refill my accounts as needed. I have done this for at least 11 years. I have had problems with dropped calls from time to time due to changes in my residences. T Mobile has worked well for me, and although at times I have had problems with customer service in the past, this has improved over time. I like T Mobile!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 23, 2013

    I have been without a phone since December 15, 2013. It is now December 22, 2013. I have been going back and forth with getting my phone replaced. According to the people who deal with the protection plan I have a Samsung Blaze, according to T-Mobile I have a Samsung Vibrant. Beyond confused, the last time I checked and the broken phone that is in my possession is a Samsung Galaxy III. What disgusts me at this point is not the back and forth. It's the fact they stress me loyal customer (over five years) yet this condescending loyal customer service team comes on and if beyond disrespectful and does nothing to rectify this issue. Who do I contact to get this issue taken care off better? Who do I talk to part ways without a penalty due to the wrongdoing of T-Mobile and the protection plan.

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