T-Mobile changing prepaid plans

prepaid showdown. According to information obtained by TMoNews.com, T-Mobile will change its prepaid rate plans this month. These include two tiers of unlimited plans, plus a high-usage offering that will compete with Straight Talk. They’ve also made a minor change to their pay-as-you-go plans, which I can’t remember changing at all since I started editing this site. Click for larger As the image above describes, there are now four monthly prepaid options. The big one is the $70 plan, which includes unlimited talk and text plus 2GB of data. This certainly signals that T-Mobile will start to offer better phones for prepaid. The $50 plan remains the same, but will now include 100MB of data, which is perfect for QWERTY feature phones. I expect the $30 plan to be the most popular. It provides 1,500 minutes or messages. Users can use those 1,500 units however they see fit. That comes in a bit below Straight Talk’s offering, but T-Mobile has the name recognition behind it. There is also something to be said for the flexibility. The $30 plan includes 30MB of data. In terms of the pay-as-you-go side, T-Mobile has made a slight change. They have simply changed the $25 card to $30, raising the number of minutes from 130 to 160. That actually works out for the user. With the $25 card minutes were 19.2 cents per minute; with the $30 card they’re 18.75 cents. It sounds like this will be coming in a week, on Wednesday, October 20. ]]>