T-Mobile will allow the popular smartphone Blackberry to be used as a prepaid phone on its service plans. This move to a prepaid Blackberry by T-Mobile comes a few days before the holiday season kicks off. You might call it perfect timing, especially in an economy where prepaid is starting to look really good and the competition in that space is quite tough.
FierceWireless reports that the “T-Mobile Complete” package gives subscribers the choice between various handsets, with a price that includes the first month of service. The lowest priced handset is just under $60.
These unlimited “no-contract” service plans will start at $50 per month and range up to $79. Some of the phones T-Mobile customers will be able to choose from include Blackberry Curve 8520, Samsung Gravity, and the Samsung t229.
The phone handsets are not that cheap–not that you would expect to get a bargain basement deal on a Blackberry. Blackberry Curve 8530 retails at $299 (which you have to add to the monthly fee for the plan you choose to get a real feel for what this plan will cost you).
T-Mobile has slowly been focusing more on the prepaid sector of the market and has seemed to methodically moving with a new cohesive game plan. A few months ago, the wireless provider released one new unlimited prepaid phone plan called “Even More Plus.”
Even More Plus provides subscribers (who pay the no-contract monthly fee) with unlimited voice, text, and web browsing for around $80 per month. For about twenty bucks less, T-Mobile users can opt out of the unlimited web browsing feature and just have the talk and voice options.
It was interesting to see the details of this new prepaid plan because it is not as competitive as people would have hoped. Sure, T-Mobile has what you might call a loud voice in the cell phone industry and can easily get its message out to a lot of people which is part of the game, but still, with competition from Straight Talk (TracFone’s value prepaid brand with a $45 Unlimited plan that runs on Verizon’s MVNO) you would expect something a little more aggressive.
If you are a prepaid user that wants a prepaid Blackberry, it’s your lucky day. You can buy the T-Mobile Complete package at Best Buy and Wal-Mart.
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