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TL;DR
- T-Mobile is making it easier to sign up for its T-Sat service for those who don’t use T-Mobile as their standard mobile phone provider.
- You can now sign up fully online without needing to go in-store or talk to a customer rep at all.
- The pricing remains quite low as always, at just $10 a month.
T-Mobile was fairly aggressive with marketing its T-Satellite service powered by Starlink when it debuted officially last year. Despite the push, last month, we learned from T-Mobile CEO Srinivasan Gopalan that the service isn’t being used as much as they originally envisioned.
There are a few reasons for this, but at least one part of the problem is that signing up for the service requires you to either visit a store or call customer service if you don’t have or plan to have a standard T-Mobile mobile plan. Thankfully, this is no longer the case, as T-Mobile is now making it much easier to sign up.
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Going forward, there’s a convenient website portal that is designed for customers of other cellular services who are interested in T-Mobile. According to several Redditors who have since signed up, the new process takes only about ten minutes to set up and is still just the same $10 a month as usual.
While you don’t get calling here obviously, it’s also worth noting that the plan also includes 50GB of high-speed access to T-Mobile’s network as well.
If you live in an area where T-Mobile Satellite works well, I still think T-Sat can be a useful service. Unfortunately, just having poor T-Mobile coverage isn’t always enough here, though.
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