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T-Mobile announced on Monday some devastating news for long-time customers: forced plan migrations, along with price increases, were coming for most legacy customers.
As usual with T-Mobile, the details of the migration is muddy. The only way to know what plan you’re migrating to is to receive a plan migration text message and then check your account. With that said, we’ve used our resources here at The Mobile Report to find out exactly what the new plans will be and how much they cost.
It’s also worth noting that, during the development of this spreadsheet, T-Mobile actually lowered the prices of most of these plans by about $5 per line sometime between Monday and Tuesday. It’s unclear why, but it’s possible they may have wanted to lessen the hit these customers might be facing after the backlash.
Stick with us, because this gets in the weeds a bit. There’s also a spreadsheet with every price and detail at the end of this article.
Who is getting migrated?
At first, it seemed like pretty much every T-Mobile plan ever made that was older than Go5G would be migrated to a new plan. Now, while it does still seem that pretty much every old plan might be migrated, there is a chance a few won’t be.
Many customers on Simple Choice and ONE plans have noticed that while they may have received a text message indicating the KickBack promo was ending, they did not receive a plan migration text.
I myself received the KickBack retirement text, but not a plan migration text. There’s no sign of a new plan coming for my account, and others who are in the same boat have reached out to support to be told that there’s no pending plan change.
Could T-Mobile have changed their mind for some customers? Maybe. On the other hand, there could be a simple explanation for this.
T-Mobile’s messaging indicates that the maximum price increase, per line, would be $6. Many customers with KickBack are already going to be seeing a higher increase than that by losing their $10/mo per line discounts. It’s possible that T-Mobile is not migrating customers that are already facing KickBack losses.
It’s also possible that some older plans are so dang cheap that they’ve not been able to (yet) create new Experience plans that would fit these customers, even after adding $6 per line to the cost.
We’ve reached out to T-Mobile to try and figure out what the situation is, but for now, if you’ve yet to receive a plan migration notice, cross your fingers.
The new plans
Now for the new plans. Based on information shared with us here at The Mobile Report, there are 62 new plans that have been created specifically as target plans for older customers being forced to migrate. Of note, every single plan has unlimited premium data.
Three of these new plans are Home Internet plans. The rest all contain the name “Experience” in some way. There are four main types of plans, most of which have nearly identical perks.
Experience Signature Select
The first type is Experience Signature Select. This is the lowest of the three, and includes most of what the mid-tier Signature plans contain (more on that next). That means this plan gets 60GB of hotspot data, free Netflix with Ads, 15GB of high-speed data in Canada and Mexico, and 5GB of high-speed international data in other countries.
One key point with Select is that it apparently has lower values for trade-in promos than the rest of the new Experience plans.
There are three variants of Experience Signature Select. These are named A, B, and C. The only difference between these variants is price. If you’re assigned this plan as your new plan, the variant you receive will vary depending on the price you were paying pre-migration.
Experience Signature
The second type of plan is called Experience Signature. It’s pretty much the same as the above, with a few additions.
You get the same 60GB of hotspot data, the same free Netflix with Ads, the same 15GB of Canada and Mexico data, and the same 5GB of high-speed international data. However, you’ll also receive the $3 Apple TV+ promo as well as, apparently, better phone trade-in promos than Select.
In effect, the perks for the Signature plans match what the publicly available Experience More plan offers.
As for variants, there are quite a few. Note that all of the plans here come with the perks listed above. The only difference for every single one of these plans is the price.
There are three unique single-line variants of the Signature plan, once again distinguished by A, B, and C. These appear to be specifically designed to be the migration target for customers on older plans with just one line.
Then there are the segmented variants. Both Military and First Responder versions of the Signature plan are available, each with up to a full 12 lines. These start at $66 for single lines.
Wrapping up the segmented variants is the 55+ plans. There are a whopping five different versions of the 55+ plans: A, B, C, D, and “TE”, or “Tax Exclusive”. There are too many prices to list here, so be sure to check the spreadsheet at the end for pricing info.
Finally there are the Signature Family plans. These are where most people are likely to end up, in my opinion. There are four versions, once again separated by A, B, C, and TE. Pricing is again in the spreadsheet, but do note that T-Mobile seems to have increased the cost of the Tax Inclusive plans (A, B, and C) to offset the “included” taxes, at least when compared to the price of the TE version.
Experience More (TI)
Next up we have Experience More (TI) plans. These plans also have the same perks as the previously mentioned Signature plans, and also include Taxes and Fees.
Variants are once again aplenty, with an A, B, First Responder, Military, and 55+ variant. The 55+ variant itself then has an A and a B version. It’s starting to seem like this whole migration thing isn’t as simple as it was made out to be, huh?
As before, you’ll want to see the spreadsheet below to get an idea of pricing, as there’s just too much to list here.
Experience Beyond (TI)
Finally we have the highest level of migration plan: Experience Beyond (TI). As with More, this is basically the same as the publicly available Experience Beyond plan in terms of perks.
You’ll get a whopping 250GB of hotspot data with this one, as well as Hulu with Ads, 30GB of Canada and Mexico data, and 15GB of international data.
This plan has the least number of variants, at least. We’ve got just one main plan this time around, starting at $100 for a single line. Then there’s a Military variant starting at $85 for a single line. There’s no sign of a First Responder variant of this one, but it could have slipped by in the documents we saw.
The Master Spreadsheet
It took a few hours to create the spreadsheet below, and please excuse my poor color-coding. Regardless, the spreadsheet contains every plan that we know of that is coming to T-Mobile for migrating customers, along with pricing.
To help decipher the chart, here’s an example. Lets say you end up with 7 lines on Experience Signature Family (B). That would put you in the 2-8 line version of the plan, which starts at $132 for 2 lines. Then you add the “AAL Price” of $26 5 times to make a total of 7 lines. That would leave you with a total of $312.
Note that these prices all assume that you’ll have autopay discount up to 8 lines. That means that only the AAL price for 7+ and 9+ plans are without autopay pricing.
These prices also don’t include any free lines or BOGO lines you may have, nor does it take into consideration an insider discount you might have.
As a reminder, the new plan migrations take effect on July 13th. Please note that pricing, perks, SOC codes, and even plan names are subject to change at any time before that data, and the below document could become inaccurate or incomplete.
The master spreadsheet of new plans can be seen using the buttons below.
