T-Mobile Essentials $60/mo. unlimited phone/text/50GB data Thoughts?

[PS56]

What are your thoughts about this plan? It also includes Unlimited @ 3G speed.
https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-...R17333&lines=1
I only need 1 phone/plan.

I'm thinking I can tether my phone to my laptop when I want to. Not to watch videos but surf the net.

I'm thinking a basic phone plan costs $25, so I'm paying $35 for the data.

[smiller]

Hotspot on the Essentials plan is only '3G' speed. That has no official meaning, rather is pretty much whatever the carrier wants it to be but for T-Mo is 512k, which is pretty slow.

You might as well get Visible for $25 at have unlimited tethering at 5 mbps. This is subject to deprioritization on busy towers but even at worst you'll do better than 512k.

[PS56]

Originally Posted by smiller

Hotspot on the Essentials plan is only '3G' speed. That has no official meaning, rather is pretty much whatever the carrier wants it to be but for T-Mo is 512k, which is pretty slow.

You might as well get Visible for $25 at have unlimited tethering at 5 mbps. This is subject to deprioritization on busy towers but even at worst you'll do better than 512k.

I just checked out that Visible site. I think I'll go with that and join a party to get the $25.

[Camper25]

I prefer the postpaid TMobile Magenta plan.