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<\/a><\/p>\nBut seriously T-Mobile (Germany’s exclusive iPhone provider), do you really need SEVEN different plans? <\/p>\n
In fact, there’s so many, that they need two pages<\/a> to fit them all. Here’s the first four: I won’t go over all of them, but here’s the bottom line:<\/p>\n There’s an inverse relationship between what you pay for the phone and what you pay in a monthly contract. <\/p>\n The cheapest option: \u20ac300 for the phone and \u20ac25\/month, \u20ac0,29\/min to all German mobiles and landlines, 200MB of data\/month.<\/p>\n The most spendy option: \u20ac1 for the phone and \u20ac120\/month, unlimited calls and data.<\/p>\n While I know that AT&T<\/a> isn’t exactly the most beloved provider, I find it almost offensive that you’d pay \u20ac25 or even the next two levels \u20ac45 or \u20ac60, where you have to pay for minutes\/texts on top of the service that you already pay per month. Not to mention that a text message to other providers is \u20ac0,19 — that’s more than double what I pay now on Blau.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now yes you can buy the phone unlocked<\/a> in Germany and use it with any of Germany’s myriad of prepaid mobile providers<\/a>. Heck, you can even take your existing SIM card, trim it and put it into your new iPhone 4 and\/or iPad<\/a>.<\/p>\n While I do want a new iPhone (I’m still rocking the original 4GB first-gen), I can’t really justify signing a two-year contract at absurdly high prices just to get a phone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I get that people want the iPhone. I get that it’s a really sexy, really popular handset. I’m not convinced that I’ll buy one just yet, but I signed up for T-Mobile’s email updates about it, and just yesterday got this: But seriously T-Mobile (Germany’s exclusive iPhone provider), do you really need SEVEN different plans? In fact, there’s so many, that they need two pages to fit them all. Here’s the first four: I won’t go over all of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-germany","category-iphone","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/iphone4.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-OB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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