{"id":555,"date":"2009-01-16T22:54:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T03:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/?p=555"},"modified":"2009-01-16T22:54:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T03:54:29","slug":"bravo-t-mobile-and-hooray-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"Bravo T-Mobile and Hooray for Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a year ago&#8230; family had asked me to switch from at&amp;t Wireless (formerly Cingular) to T-Mobile so they wouldn&#8217;t have to waste minutes on calling me. When I tried to do the switch, my credit was simply not good enough to snag my own line without a ridiculously huge deposit. I was devastated and at&amp;t hiking rates on me was making me rather sick. It didn&#8217;t help that I was also recovering out of debt so my dinged up credit record wasn&#8217;t helping at all. So family stuck in and had said &#8220;Use one of our names and get your own line.&#8221; Which I did and I joined their ranks with T-Mobile&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>However&#8230; This past December, family had said &#8220;You need to get your own line with T-Mobile, if you can&#8217;t&#8230; have fun losing your phone number&#8221;. That was something I couldn&#8217;t have happen as my phone is now my second life line other than the web. I had to get T-Mobile to do a &#8220;change of responsibility&#8221; to my account under my family&#8217;s name and see if I could get one in mine. They informed me that my account under their name had a full discount upgrade available and that by transferring responsibility to me, I would more than likely lose that and have to wait 30 days for a &#8220;partial upgrade discount&#8221;. I just decided to bite the bullet and see if my credit was able to pass me. Fortunate for me&#8230; My credit seems to have healed enough to qualify me for my own line. I decided to do the change of responsibility to ease my family&#8217;s burden of supporting me and I just went with knowing that I probably lost my upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>However&#8230; Today, on trying to pay my dissapearing final bill over the phone with T-Mobile&#8230; I found an interesting revelation from my dialogue with the representative:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Zero:<\/strong> I wanted to know how long before my account is able to do a full discount upgrade? I had heard from a few reps in-store and over the phone that I would more than likely lose it and start from square one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rep:<\/strong> Actually Zero, your account seems to have gotten that upgrade discount transferred! Did you have a question over that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zero:<\/strong> Is it a full discount? The reason I ask is because I am rather excited for the <a href=\"http:\/\/na.blackberry.com\/eng\/devices\/blackberrycurve8900\/?navId=H0,C401\" target=\"_blank\">Blackberry Curve 8900<\/a> coming to T-Mobile on 2\/11\/09.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rep:<\/strong> I am showing it is a full device discount should you decide to do a 2 year agreement. I will say that I am glad you&#8217;re excited about the Curve 8900 coming to T-Mobile and I hope that we hear from you again when the time comes for you when you do choose to get the new 8900!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will say that the outstanding customer service that T-Mobile has is the reason I don&#8217;t want to change providers. The &#8220;Death Star&#8221; had failed to even answer simple questions with the amount of zeal that T-Mobile has. I am glad that my upgrade didn&#8217;t vanish and it just shows how much I am glad to be with T-Mobile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a year ago&#8230; family had asked me to switch from at&amp;t Wireless (formerly Cingular) to T-Mobile so they wouldn&#8217;t have to waste minutes on calling me. When I tried to do the switch, my credit was simply not good enough to snag my own line without a ridiculously huge deposit. I was devastated and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/?p=555\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bravo T-Mobile and Hooray for Me!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[8,4],"tags":[270,586,33,358,585],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technology","tag-by-zero","tag-personal","tag-phones","tag-t-mobile","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdVBT-8X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}