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AT&T offers rollover minutes and Verizon offers a prepaid plan with rollover 3G data. Now T-Mobile is trying to trump them both with its latest “Un-carrier” gambit. The carrier’s latest deal-sweetener involves 4G rollover data that can accumulate and be used for up to a year.
In a press release, T-Mobile CEO and president John Legere likened the use-it-or-lose-it data plans of competing carriers to “siphoning unused gas from your car each month.”
T-Mobile calls it “Data Stash,” and the carrier is tacking a free 10GB of 4G LTE data onto compatible plans. According to the T-Mobile site, the rollover plan and free data offer is eligible for Simple Choice plans of 3GB or greater. It’ll be available for new customers and existing customers with eligible plans starting in January.
The cheapest plan will likely be the Simple Choice 3GB package, which will cost $60 per month. In addition to the 3GB base data, T-Mobile will add another 10GB for a total of 13GB that can roll over to subsequent months if it isn’t used up.
While Verizon has a rollover data plan as part of its “Allset” prepaid plan, users are limited to 3G networks for their data needs. An MVNO called Pure TalkUSA also had a data-rollover plan for a limited time over the past year, but there’s no more data-rollover option on its plans. That makes T-Mobile the only carrier to offer a monthly data-rollover plan at 4G LTE speeds.
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