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A few weeks ago, I switched our family's 8 T-Mobile lines (me, a sister, my son, my father plus spouses) from an old family plan to the T-Mobile Military plan. Pretty good deal by the way; we are now paying $18.51 per line for unlimited everything.
But the previous account was in my father's name because he won (or lost, depending on how you see it) the toss to own the account when we merged or separate T-Mobile accounts many years ago.
Military plans require a veteran or military person to own the account.
Knowing that opening a new account would create all sorts of opportunities for things to get messed up, I wasted a few days trying to get T-Mobile to just change the ownership of the family account from my father to me. No way to do it. And as an additional downside, not only would we have to move 8 lines, and reset everything about each of them, the new account would be just that: we would be considered new T-Mobile customers which was sort of a downer in that my father says there were numerous times in the past 17 years, including 1 last year, where he received special treatment as a long term T-Mobile customer.
So, whole new account it would be.
A few days ago, my father received a notice to return his T-Mobile Personal CellSpot router. I had forgotten I advised him to take advantage of T-Mobiles free offer for one years ago because he was using the cheapest Buffalo 150 speed N router at the time.
Of course since then, his usage had expanded from just surfing and email and that old router wouldn't do the job anymore (assuming he could even find it).
While dealing with this and finding him a new router (the lemons), I discovered the router T-Mobile wanted back was actually a rebranded ASUS RT-AC68U but with T-Mobile firmware. which lead me to discover T-Mobile had unloaded their stock of those, new and used, after they came up with a cheaper device to help customers with weak cell signal in their home (the router did that via wi-fi calling). The RT-AC68U was the top ASUS router not that long ago and is still no slouch. And whoever bought up T-Mobile's stock couldn't sell them for anywhere near the price of an AC68U because the T-Mobile branding scared or confused most buyers.
I guess its too late to say "long story short" but I grabbed one of these, brand new for $60 and am re-flashing it to AC68U firmware. Well actually a fork of it that improves on the ASUS version.
Some VERY good lemon-aid.
But the previous account was in my father's name because he won (or lost, depending on how you see it) the toss to own the account when we merged or separate T-Mobile accounts many years ago.
Military plans require a veteran or military person to own the account.
Knowing that opening a new account would create all sorts of opportunities for things to get messed up, I wasted a few days trying to get T-Mobile to just change the ownership of the family account from my father to me. No way to do it. And as an additional downside, not only would we have to move 8 lines, and reset everything about each of them, the new account would be just that: we would be considered new T-Mobile customers which was sort of a downer in that my father says there were numerous times in the past 17 years, including 1 last year, where he received special treatment as a long term T-Mobile customer.
So, whole new account it would be.
A few days ago, my father received a notice to return his T-Mobile Personal CellSpot router. I had forgotten I advised him to take advantage of T-Mobiles free offer for one years ago because he was using the cheapest Buffalo 150 speed N router at the time.
Of course since then, his usage had expanded from just surfing and email and that old router wouldn't do the job anymore (assuming he could even find it).
While dealing with this and finding him a new router (the lemons), I discovered the router T-Mobile wanted back was actually a rebranded ASUS RT-AC68U but with T-Mobile firmware. which lead me to discover T-Mobile had unloaded their stock of those, new and used, after they came up with a cheaper device to help customers with weak cell signal in their home (the router did that via wi-fi calling). The RT-AC68U was the top ASUS router not that long ago and is still no slouch. And whoever bought up T-Mobile's stock couldn't sell them for anywhere near the price of an AC68U because the T-Mobile branding scared or confused most buyers.
I guess its too late to say "long story short" but I grabbed one of these, brand new for $60 and am re-flashing it to AC68U firmware. Well actually a fork of it that improves on the ASUS version.
Some VERY good lemon-aid.
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