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T-Mobile has non-contract plans.

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans

Scroll alllll the way down to the bottom, look for the $30/month plans. They include 5 GB of data per month at 4G speeds, after that you're throttled. I've never come anywhere near to hitting that limit, so I don't know what the throttle is.

You can order a SIM card online, or pick one up in a store.

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/phone-sim-card

Once the SIM is in your hand, then you can go into one of their stores or online to get one of the $30/month options.

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Do you know if T-Mobile has improved in the Phoenix area? The website shows 'excellent' coverage around here, but all I read online is horror stories of not having any signal in buildings etc. Apparently they wanted to work on that in the last 6-10 months, but I haven't heard anything about it since.

I travel all around the valley, and rarely ever have any signal issues with T-Mobile, in the places I do have issues Verizon phones are the only ones with signals.

Where I live(Sun Dance) Verizon phones have little to no signal while I have 3-4 bars.

T-Mobile is great in the east valley for me - the only place I can't get a signal is in my home office in my house, but that seems to be some kind of odd wireless signal black hole in general. Most of the time I have a 4G signal with quite decent speeds.

"This plan is only available for devices purchased from Wal-Mart or devices activated on T-Mobile.com"

What is a device activated on t-mobile.com? And how do you select it?

Buy a sim card from their website and activate at home. Only way to not get that deal is to go to a T-Mobile store.

Order a sim card from T-Mobile, put in the phone, and follow the online activation steps. Make sure you get the right size sim card (regular vs. mini). I originally got the wrong one for my nexus 4.

I am currently on this plan (on a Nexus 4), and it works quite well for me. There's also a 100 minutes talk time limit on the plan, with 10C per minute for extra talk time.

Hmm looking at my recent statements, I'm always between like 150 and 375 minutes, so even with the 10c per minute extra, I'd never be looking at more than $60/month at worst. I'm assuming nights and weekends still don't count as minutes on this plan?

Never assume. Always read the contract language carefully.

Sorry, I used confusing language there. It was meant as a question for people who have the plan. There are scant details about the plan on the website.

There are no free nights and weekends with this plan.

Everything counts, but you can be strategic about usage - dialing via Google Voice from a laptop keeps me well under 100.

I checked out the page, but it looks to me that the $30/month plans are just data. Am I looking at it wrong, or does that include voice and text as well?

They have one that's $30/month for 100 minutes talk + unlimited text and web (first 5GB at 4G speeds) which I think is what he was talking about. It's just below the "pay by the day" section.

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