Honestly, this is not a bad plan on T-Mobile. They are one of the only carriers who actually give you the option to pay more for the phone and sign a 1 year contract. Most other carriers require a minimum 2 year contract. If T-Mobile were to change their ETF pro-rate to benefit 2 year contracts more, then they would have to stop offering 1 year contracts to balance.
You can get a 1 year price on any carrier, you might have to take the time to call in to get the price instead of the internet, but you can still get the 1 year.
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Honestly, this is not a bad plan on T-Mobile. They are one of the only carriers who actually give you the option to pay more for the phone and sign a 1 year contract. Most other carriers require a minimum 2 year contract. If T-Mobile were to change their ETF pro-rate to benefit 2 year contracts more, then they would have to stop offering 1 year contracts to balance.
Actually, they also give you the option to pay full price for the handset and have no contract (flexpay month to month).
Seems like a decent way to do early termination, it's not quite "pro-rated", which would be ideal.
You can get a 1 year price on any carrier, you might have to take the time to call in to get the price instead of the internet, but you can still get the 1 year.