T-Mobile is raising prices on more legacy plans, with some subscribers seeing a $5 increase per line. Some of those plans were advertised as having a ‘Price Lock’ guarantee.
T-Mobile is sending a text message to some subscribers explaining, “For the first time in nearly a decade, we’re making an update to the price of some of our older monthly service plans. Starting on 4/2/2025, your phone plan will increase by $5 per line per month. You’ll keep all the benefits you currently enjoy, and your rate plan type and bill due date remain the same.”
The change has reportedly affected some Simple choice, One, and Magenta plans, as well as some legacy Spring plans and first responder/military/55+ plans. T-Mobile is likely sending out the text in batches, so if you’re on an old plan and you haven’t received the message yet, you may still get the notification in the coming days. In most reports, the change appears to be an additional $5 per line, but according to The Mobile Report, there are also some people getting a $5 per account increase instead. It’s not clear what the criteria is for those subscribers.
One Reddit user said, “Just got the text. I’m on the One plan and I’ll see a $20 per month increase [on] 4 lines.” Another said, “I’m on Magenta Max. Just got this text too. This might put me at the same price as Go5G Plus, just with slightly less hotspot.”
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T-Mobile agreed to not raise prices for existing Sprint customers for five years, as part of a settlement that allowed the carrier to buy Sprint. The merger with Sprint was completed on April 1st, 2020, and exactly five years later on April 2nd, 2025, price increases for those plans are starting. T-Mobile also famously promised a ‘Price Lock’ and ‘Un-contract’ on many of those plans, but in the fine print, they don’t actually block T-Mobile from raising prices. They just make T-Mobile pay for your final month’s bill if you switch to another carrier and notify T-Mobile within 60 days.
In a support page about the price increase, T-Mobile says, “While some of our competitors have announced multiple price increases – 10 in two years between AT&T and Verizon – for the first time in nearly a decade, T-Mobile is making small adjustments to prices on some of our older monthly service plans. Our commitment to delivering the best value isn’t changing and never will. Even with these updates, T-Mobile customers still save an average of 20% compared to AT&T and Verizon on comparable wireless and streaming services—while continuing to enjoy America’s leading 5G network and award-winning customer experience.”
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Even though this is a small price increase on subscribers who (mostly) haven’t seen one in years, it’s still annoying, especially when T-Mobile falsely advertised many of those plans as being locked in price forever. You can find many complaints online from T-Mobile customers who feel they were lied to over the past few years. This will unfortunately continue happening until the FTC or another agency forces T-Mobile to comply with its own advertising.
Source: The Mobile Report, Reddit, T-Mobile
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