T-Mobile new unlimited family plan lets the kids yap into eternity

T-Mobile's trying to sweeten the unlimited pot today, adding a family option onto its preexisting $99.99 all-you-can-talk (and text) plan. Pretty simple: buy the first line for $99.99 as you normally would, then up to four additional lines of service can be added with the same limitless bucket of minutes and messages for $49.99 a pop. The so-called "FamilyTime Unlimited" package is being advertised as a package of two lines configured like this for $149.98 -- but make no mistake, you can still add another three on top of that to make sure all the kiddies get their fair share. Honestly though, if that baby boy in the picture has a Shadow hooked up with unlimited airtime, we're quitting life.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

[dodgerfan Posted Jun 4th 2008 6:08PM]

thats a pretty impressive plan, lets hope the other carriers follow suit. maybe sprint will even try to undercut to heat up a price war... we can only dream, right?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 4th 2008 7:37PM]

I'm pretty sure thats a male toddler not baby girl

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 4th 2008 7:42PM]

Yea I was thinking the same thing. Definitely a boy.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 4th 2008 9:38PM]

Wait..... $99 for the first line, $49 for each following line? Seems a bit pricey. I'd like the option to give the primary user unlimited everything, and a simple $9/month add on for phone only on the other lines.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 4th 2008 10:02PM]

Ok, that would be pretty dumb...Let's see, the other major carriers have unlimited talk for $99 and $99 for each additional line. So five lines would be $500. With this plan, 5 lines would be $300 or $60 each! That's cheap as hell!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 5th 2008 12:37AM]

So, 4 lines with unlimited talk and text, and the $20 total internet add-on (so, unlimited everything) ... $330/mo. That's $83/mo each. That's just barely above the $75-$80/mo "reasonable cost" mark I set when the unlimited war began.

And if you do "t-zones web" instead of "total internet", it's $274/mo, or $69/mo each. Under the mark I set ... you just have to get 3 people to join you.

Compared to $50/mo on MetroPCS, where you're region limited for your unlimited service. $19/mo extra is worth that, I think. Now I just have to find 2 friends to go in with my wife and I. I think all of my friends are in the middle of contracts, though (a bunch of them renewed last Fall, and didn't go to Metro with the wife and I).

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 5th 2008 12:37AM]

If i can remember correctly, doesn't metropcs have a much better unlimited family plan than these already?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 5th 2008 11:05AM]

Yes. But seeing how Metro is only regional, take a trip to NY(or wherever it isn't - I've never heard of it we have cricket here) and poof no coverage.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 5th 2008 4:07AM]

Would be nice and valid if MetroPCS was a national carrier.