T-Mobile sure wants to be your carrier for the new iPhone 6s.
Having previously introduced attention-grabbing offers like Apple Music streaming which doesn’t take a byte out of your monthly data allowance, the Uncannier is now offering customers the chance to get their hands on a 16GB iPhone 6s for $125 less than its normal sales price of $649.
And outspoken CEO John Legere wants to make sure you know T-Mobile coverage is better than ever, too.
On the network front, T-Mobile is keen the show off that it is the United States’ fastest and fastest-growing LTE network.
According to today’s blog post, the company is currently expanding its coverage to cover an extra 260,000 homes each week. It does this using the 700MHz spectrum, which T-Mobile says lets it extend its LTE 2x as far from cellular towers, while also letting it work 4x better in buildings. Currently this Extended Range LTE covers more than 50 percent of the U.S. population.
The network also promises customers a lifetime “network-satisfaction guarantee” which means that, if you’re unhappy with your iPhone coverage, the company will give you a refund of up to one month, while also unlocking your handset at no charge to use on other carrier networks.
The best bit of the offer, however, is the price point — which lets JUMP! On Demand subscribers get hold of a cut-price iPhone 6s. As the Uncarrier explains:
“Starting this Saturday morning at midnight PT, you can pre-order a new iPhone 6s for an unprecedented $20 a month for 18 months with JUMP! On Demand – and iPhone 6s Plus is just $24 a month – both with $0 down. Of course, with JUMP! On Demand, you don’t pay a penny out of pocket upfront with qualifying credit – not even sales tax – and you have the ultimate flexibility to upgrade your phone whenever you want. Not once a year. Not with fees or waiting periods. Just turn in your working phone and start with a brand new one, absolutely whenever you want (up to 3x per year).
After your 18 monthly payments, you can hand back your phone and pay nothing more. Or you can pay just $164 more if you want to keep your iPhone 6s. That means your total cost to own your phone is just $524 – that’s a screaming deal.”
The network says this is a “special introductory pricing” offer, but doesn’t specify how long it will last.
Certainly worth looking into, though…
Source: T-Mobile
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
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‘A screaming deal’ where you have to pay at the end of the contract if you want to keep the phone? Here in the UK once your contract is up, the phone is yours and the network is usually desperate to get you to a sign another one, because you are under no obligation to give them more money. I understand US carriers operate differently, though.
There is an outstanding balance at the end of the lease. Most people will be swapping (Jumping) to the new models each year so they won’t have to worry about it. Just hand them your old leased phone, get a new model, and continue paying the same lease price (price may change if you change phone model like going from 16GB to 64GB or something).
You can avoid all of this and buy the phone at full price if you wish. They you can resell the phone when you you want to upgrade. Paying the lease pricing and being able to swap at the store is just more convenient for us lazy Americans.
Leasing the iPhone 6s puts you at $360, and then you can trade in. But if you want to buy the phone afterwords and keep it, you’re saving $126 off the regular price anywhere else because you end up only paying $524 TOTAL (vs $650, or $777 in the Apple Store with the monthly program they just announced) as you only pay $164 to buy it out.
So, $524 at T-Mobile vs. $650 or $777 anywhere else, I’d say that’s a pretty great deal.
There is no contract in this deal.. and plus still even paying that amount you are clearly saving money!
hopefully their preorder system is working well this weekend. We’ve got 3 phones ready to Jump from the iPhone JOD promo.
Do you still pay the $10/mo fee for the JUMP plan on top of the $20? If yes, then it’s actually a pretty bad deal.
No, there is no $10 fee. That’s only on the old Jump plan. Jump on Demand has no monthly fees, other than the cost of leasing the phones.
This. Keep in mind though… you don’t get insurance included with JOD… insurance ($8) was rolled into the $10 early upgrade JUMP cost.
Absolutely correct. When I got my S6 Edge Plus on JOD, I decided not to get the insurance. Hope I don’t regret that decision!!!
Insurance would bring it up to $28/mo if you wanted it, but it’s optional. But even then, that’s better than Apple’s lease plan at $32/mo. Especially since you get 3 free upgrades a year to whatever phone you want, iOS or Android (you just pay the difference monthly if there is any…probably +-$3-4). Plus Apple’s plan is only on approved credit – you don’t even need a credit check to get $0 down at T-Mobile as long as you pay your bill on time for a year.
We get it, TMOBILE is way cheaper than ATT or verizon, but i don’t want spotty coverage, dropped calls, or that stupid message “all circuits are busy” when people try to call you.