T-Mobile cutting off employee discounts, will now offer $25 reward card for each device...

[Guest Jared Peters]

 

T-Mobile is making a very bold move in regards to employee discounts for their customers, and this time, it doesn’t look like it’s a move for the better. Yesterday, CEO John Legere said the company will stop offering employee discounts on service, and no, you cannot keep yours if you had a discount before the cut-off date.

 

Legere says the move is to help keep up the transparency with T-Mobile’s Simple Choice plans. The rates are already so good for those plans, he claimed, that employee discounts just aren’t necessary. He takes a shot at other carriers using those discounts to close big corporate contracts and using employees/customers as bargaining chips, and says T-Mobile’s plans are still a better deal even next to another carrier’s plan with employee discounts applied.

 

To make up for the missing discounts, T-Mobile is offering a $25 rewards card each time an employee purchases a device. If you upgrade twice a year, that’s $50 in rewards cards… which still doesn’t really compete with a decent employee discount.

 

Maybe Legere will surprise everyone tomorrow and say this was just an April Fools joke, and he’s actually giving everyone on T-Mobile an employee discount just for being customers. Who knows.

 

Anybody with a discount on a T-Mobile plan that’s going to be affected by this change?

 

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