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T-Mobile has a rating of 1.2 stars from 1,938 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about T-Mobile most frequently mention customer service, new phone, and sim card problems. T-Mobile ranks 240th among Mobile Phones sites.

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Top Positive Review

“They are very good at apologizing!”

Kristy S.
2/27/15

I've had T-Mobile for 5+ years now and I've found that while mistakes are sometimes made, (usually during ill-advised store visits) their phone based customer service is very good at making up for it. Any time I have called them with an issue they have been very quick to correct it and to give me some kind of compensation or perk to make up for the loss. While the website has had a few issues in the past with user-friendliness, they have made regular improvements over the years that help immensely. If you demand perfection constantly, not the carrier for you, but if you have a tiny bit of patience, they do come through in the long run.

Date of experience: 2/26/15
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Top Critical Review

“No. Just no.”

vadustbunny g.
11/7/24

Phones are junk and they then charge you to restock their junk. In store makes a sale and then cant help you with anything and believe me...you WILL have problems. Customer service? Our entire family had TM phones and now are completely disgusted with the "service". Plan on spending hours on the phone as you get put on hold, swapped around, cut off over and over again, and get told something different with every call. Have had constant glitches with the GPS, volume, camera lens etc etc etc. They used to be worth the extra money every month but NO good reasons to stay with them anymore. Steer clear.

Date of experience: 11/7/24
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Thumbnail of user michellec1949
North Carolina
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July 14th, 2021

I have had Verizon for over 20 years and it's quite pricey. So with all these T Mobile commercials we were going to make the switch. We wanted to keep our phones and phone number. They required a card on file but I was advised I would not be charged anything until we switched our phones and started with them. They sent me SIMcards which we received 3 days after my conversationwith them. In the meantime I still hadn't received any confirmation from them regarding the monthly charge, and plan info which was to include unlimited data, talk and text in writing. I advised them that until I got a confirmation of monthly charge, etc... I will not switch phones. (Keep in mind, we are now 2 weeks in). Eventually after receiving emails in return with double talk and still no confirmation I asked them to cancel the switch and if we decide to go with T-Mobile we will go to a kiosk.
Well... I happen to have had a small pile of mail from about a weeks ago that I hadn't had the opportunity to look at because it was picked up by my teenager and put in the wrong place. In that pile was a notice from T-Mobile that stated that in order for them to continue service they would require a deposit. Basically, had I did what they wanted and switched all of our phones over, they would have then cut the service until they got this deposit. And they still never gave me monthly charge info in writing. After laughing and being very happy that I never made that change, I decided to write this review because my guess is they probably do this to people that may end up with no service or much higher monthly charges then they anticipated.
We are still probably going to change carriers eventually but definitely not T mobile.

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Zero, nilly, nothing

Date of experience: July 14, 2021

Thumbnail of user patrickw43
California
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May 25th, 2015

T-Mobile products break to easily for me, the design of their phones and OS is very clean and fluid, unfortunately that's the only real benefit.

Date of experience: May 25, 2015

Thumbnail of user doodood1
Texas
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June 15th, 2023

I cannot make or receive calls and no customer service...terrible
I am going to a another company
Cannot recommend tmobile

Date of experience: June 15, 2023

Thumbnail of user davidr6011
Ohio
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May 17th, 2023

I had a terrible experience with T-mobile customer service chat. It lasted about 20 minutes and was slow and terrible.

Date of experience: May 17, 2023

Thumbnail of user homayont
Hawaii
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February 6th, 2022

Forces you to have autopay. After you leave they will keep charging. And the customer service has no idea how to fix it

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Kill the autopay .

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Date of experience: February 6, 2022

Thumbnail of user carenl36
Virginia
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April 8th, 2023

I was with T mobile for about 5 years. Their customer service declined towards the last year. I had 6 lines, and one of them came with get 1 line on us deal. But when I switched my phone number for one of them, they started charging me for the 6th line. I tried to tell them that the 6th line was a free line because it was part of a deal, but the customer service rep just kept telling me that I would get credit for the 6th line the following month. I called for the next few months to correct this error, but the customer representative said that they can no longer help me. Because I changed to a new number, I was no longer able to get the 6th line for free. I spoke to another supervisor, and he said that he will fix everything, but the following month, another customer rep said that it was in the notes that I was told that I would not get the 6th line for free, and that I acknowledged that I was no longer able to get the deal because of the new number change. This was entirely false.

So not wanting to deal with T mobile customer service any longer (and shocked by the false statement made in the notes), I switched to Verizon (where the customer service is much better) and found out that I had a credit from my prior T mobile account. I tried to get the credit issued back to my credit card, but they told me that I had to go into a T mobile store to get the money that was owed back to me. I asked the customer service rep that I wanted to speak to her supervisor, but she hung up on me.

T mobile customer service over the phone is horrendous. I am not sure which contractor they are hired to help with customer service, but they need to do something about it. I am not going back to Tmobile.

Date of experience: April 8, 2023

Thumbnail of user roberth4457
Tennessee
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March 6th, 2022

Look at my bill today they raise it by 35.00 for no reason got to Look at your bill every month it's t mob that's how they operate

Date of experience: March 6, 2022

Thumbnail of user elizabethh2193
Washington
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July 4th, 2022

I decided to do the 10-day free trial to see whether their equipment was any better at internet versus my own. When I tried to return their device before the end of the 10 days it was a huge effort and several long phone calls and then they convinced me to try a few more days with some adjustments to the setup. I finally agreed after they told me they would not charge me if I was willing to test out their device for those few extra days. So I tried it a few more days, it still did not work, and then I tried to return it. Since then I did manage to return but it took probably 2 hours of phone calls just for them to finally give me the return label. And then they still charged me $54!
I asked them to remove the charge. Once again it was two or three phone calls just to finally find someone to help and then they insisted that although the account number was on the bill that they had sent me and they were able to find my name and address, they could not cencel the charge unless I remembered a four digit PIN they say that was set up during the approximate 2 weeks that I had their device in my home! I did not remember the four digit PIN and then they insisted that the charge could only be removed if I went in person to a T-Mobile store. I finally drove to a T-Mobile store. The assistant was very helpful but he told me it would probably take him a half an hour to try to get the charge credited, and he said he would call me when done. When he did call, he told me that in the meantime T-Mobile had sent my $54 account to collections! And he had no information and no way to tell me where it had gone.
Just be warned, T-Mobiles acts like a scammer. What online company first tries to bill you for a completely invalid and unauthorized charge, and then insists that they can't make correct that charge unless you personally drive to one of their stores! That's crazy and so so dishonest. BTW I just saw today they only have a 1.2 rating with Better Business Bureau -- that that is another warning sign about a dishonest company. Do not waste your time with them. You will be sorry.
(Over the years I've used sprint, verizon, at&t, and my kids use XFinity now. I never ever ever had any experience with them like what I had with T-Mobile.)

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None, this was a 10-day free trial of an internet device. They shipped it to me rapidly but then it was a nightmare trying to return within the 10 days multiple lengthy calls etc etc

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Date of experience: July 4, 2022

Thumbnail of user ibrahimm80
Massachusetts
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January 4th, 2022

It's a very very bad customer service when I ask the supervisor it worth not help anyone and he doesn't care about the client I don't like T-Mobile after I switch it from Sprint Sprint the best

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Date of experience: January 4, 2022

Thumbnail of user davidn1509
Indiana
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October 27th, 2022

Fact that i live in 2 states causes me to find new internet carrier every 6 months unless i am willing to pay the ever increasing vacation charge or installation charge. T-mobile 's 5G wireless internet with no cable/wire installation charge would be an excellent idea only IF they have services in both your locations. They would put their transceiver on relay tower only if they find enough subscribers in vicinity. Naturally their corporate & franchise stores lie about it. At initial sign up, they never mentioned PIN/username which is birth year twice. You can only cancel by calling online, their agent would ask for your PIN as first roadblock. By the time you got fact clear with local store, few days would passed. Calling again, their online agent greets you politely & said case done & to expect email on return equipment scan code to print out for UPS sent to you. That's a lie, after two repeated calls with different agents with no received email, I filed complaint with BBB. Then T-mobile special agent cancelled my account immediately though my original request was a month later till my migration. I still got no email from him on equipment return bar code. Till i threatened with further BBB complaint, he sent me one & case is closed. When i inquired on transportability of 5G receiver to diff states having service, the special agent was frank to warn me that unlimited data(typical 1TB by peers)is applicable to home address where account is open. Thus end of hope that T-mobile 5G is state portable. I SHALL NOT USE T-MOBILE IF SUCH PRACTICE PERSIST. Just a good Samaritan

Tip for consumers:
no issue for those who seldom need to change internet service provider

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Date of experience: October 27, 2022

Thumbnail of user bryans1014
Texas
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March 17th, 2023

After paying $115/mo for two years, I decided to transfer from T-Mobile to Pure Talk. There were complications that I don't entirely blame on T-Mobile, however it was extremely frustrating to call customer service (from a friend's phone), multiple times, when mine was locked by T-Mobile, for a balance due.
I was told that only $26 of my monthly payments was for paying for the phone over time. I was assured my iPhone 13 would be unlocked after I paid, which I did. Then, I was told it would be unlocked within 24 hours. It wasn't. I called customer service again, talking to a different person, and was told it usually takes 72 hours, and was told 24 hours "doesn't make any sense."
I called four times, spoke to four different people, put on hold each time. I got four different contradictory explanations. Three days later, the phone was finally unlocked, but I had to go to a local retail store to be informed of that. There wasn't any indication on the phone settings that it was unlocked. No messages, nothing! I was very upset, patience was gone by the third day. I was told by a technical support person, I would have to go to a retail store to have a SIM card put in to expedite unlocking and that there would be no problem. The guy at the store didn't want to call technical support. He argued to me about that, saying "It's not that easy."
"It is that easy", I said, the technician wrote a note on my account. "There's a note about this from the technician. Call technical support."
T-Mobile customer support doesn't offer extension numbers to contact one person for multiple calls. Assurances offered, "sorry" expressed many times, but results were nonexistent or slow to materialize.
I don't care to have any contact with T-Mobile ever again.

Date of experience: March 17, 2023

Thumbnail of user howards459
New York
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July 8th, 2022

We were enticed to move to Tmobile from Sprint in October. They promised free phones. I was not happy with Sprint and we were thinking of going to Verizon. In any event, I fell for the free phones. Well, we had to mail them in. THey took 6 weeks to acknowledge one because they told us it was lost in the warehouse in January. Today they told us it was broken and they can not honor the free phone. Either way, we are paying full boat for one phone and I have argued with them every month since January. The last bill we were finally granted a credit of $109. I paid the remainder of the bill and got a $0.00 owed receipt and thought at last were done. Well they rescinded the $109 without telling me. They then sent us a text message on Tuesday of this week and then turned our service off today. Cost me $40.00 plus I had to pay the $109 that was supposedly credited last month and I paid this month.

They are a bunch of lying cheating scoundrels. They are so nice on the phone but they do nothing and do not care. I believe they are taught to be nice and do nothing. No one should even consider this company for phone service no matter how cheap they become. The office in Seattle has no one in the US to assist with billing problems. You only have service in the Phillippines and they have no way to get help and they have no power to fix anything. WE think the Spanish language section is in another country other than the Phillippines and if you speak spanish you are better served by those than if you speak English. We tried that today and it may have helped, we will see if they resolve anything.

Under no circumstances should anyone put themselves in a situation of powerlessness that this company has created. I almost did not bother to pay the bill today except that I need the phone for dual authentication purposes. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE USE T-MOBILE!

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Date of experience: July 8, 2022

Thumbnail of user brianl2260
Delaware
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July 14th, 2023

I bought a apple watch it broke just over a year.They continue charging me sevice when canceled stint

Date of experience: July 14, 2023

Thumbnail of user joshuab1450
Michigan
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November 4th, 2022

They lie cheat and steal I cancelled there service because it was horrible and they keep stealing my money

Tip for consumers:
Stay away they lie cheat and steal I been fighting over 2 months 2 get my money back

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No refunds they steal from customers

Date of experience: November 4, 2022

Thumbnail of user dennisw40
Ohio
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May 29th, 2015

I really love there products. So inventive. Always fresh new ideas. I have various T-Mobile phones. Good quality products.

Date of experience: May 29, 2015

Thumbnail of user pauls4046
North Carolina
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November 10th, 2022

We have been good loyal customers of T-Mobile for a long time. My son has an I-phone 11 pro max which seems to keep freezing. We have taken it to T-Mobile and the service tech told me that it is because Apple changed the software and it can not be uploaded into these old phones. I told my son to go into a local T-Mobile store and trade the I-phone 11 for the new I-phone 14 to solve the software problem, since he lives 2 hours (one way) away from my home. He took the phone into a T-Mobile store in Greenville, North Carolina who's employees are very badly trained both on the phones and customer service. The store actually called me to get authorization, but told me that I needed to add my son to the account before they can help him. Now you may trust your kids in a T-Mobile store, but not me. I said to them why don't you tell me how much it's going to cost me for the new phone, since his phone is on my account. They told me that since I'm not at the store, they can't give me any information about pricing. I said then why do we have pin numbers that verify who you are talking to. When I call customer service that's the first thing they ask for so they can authenticate the person. Obviously, I don't drive to Texas to show them my ID. The store said "we'll that's the way we do things around here". Well, let me tell you, if you don't want to lose old loyal good customers like me, then you need to figure out how to handle this problem. My money spends just as good at other cellular companies which I'm sure they would love our business. Remember T-Mobile your Free Tuesdays aren't that good to keep me, if I don't get the customers service I pay for. I think since the last CEO left, you guys have gotten worse and worse. I think it is time for customers to BOYCOTT your company and leave. Then we will see your customer service policy change.

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None, because T-Mobile doesn't want my money!!

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Date of experience: November 10, 2022

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Washington
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August 8th, 2023

Quick and steady. Very informative. Go see Mr.August to get the best honest deals. He told me the routes and helped inform as quick as needed.

Date of experience: August 8, 2023

Thumbnail of user dawns1300
North Carolina
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May 5th, 2022

When we went in the store we switched from Sprint to T-Mobile as there are part of the same company we qualified for phone upgrades one of the phones came with a watch after we signed the contract and paid cash for accessories we get our first bill and it was fine our second Bill comes out and now we're being charged for a second phone and the watch that was free and the accessories we paid for. So our bill went up $40 from the initial quote that we were given we went into the store to have them pull up the contract that was signed because it's all online now and they refused to provide it to us they said it's not our problem this is what we have this is what we're going with so now we're in a contract paying for devices we already paid for paying for accessories we already paid for and the company's not doing anything to assist us. And now my phone bill goes up another $10 and the website can't tell me what it's for just that my price was raised I'm done with T-Mobile I'm done with Sprint because I still get emails from Sprint stating here's my current bill when I no longer have a plan with them I will not go to Sprint or T-Mobile ever again be very careful and have them print everything for you and take it with you because they will lie and charge you for things you already paid for thanks for nothing

Date of experience: May 5, 2022

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Washington
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December 16th, 2021

I'm a tmobile customer with a prepaid account that called 611 customer service with a simple question that wasn't understood by the customer service representative. I then asked for a manager at which point I was hung up on. I tried to call back several times, but the call kept being disconnected before connecting. I tried to make other calls to different numbers, but calls still would not go through. I decided to try voicemail and it did connect to my inbox, but was now in Spanish, which I do not speak. I had to do a factory reset on the phone to get it back. Once I had the phone back online it was fine, but still didn't have my simple question answered by customer care. I now understand the difference between a prepaid account, which they will not provide true customer service for, but also conduct malicious actions to the phone if they don't like or understand your simple questions. I'm seriously shocked that a customer service representative is able to disable a phone without a legitimate cause. People should beware of these things and demand better customer service from an extremely greedy company that doesn't care anything about its customers, or the service they provide. As far as they're employees, they just need a job and don't care what types of things that they help inflict on people that affect paying customers accounts. It's totally time to start moving away from these greedy, foul cell phone companies that specialize in exploitation of people. Fact! Tmobile is corrupt and unfortunately the dollar is king in this racist imperial country, so there's no remedy, no organization like the FCC that will do anything about these companies because they are all increasingly irrelevant in providing any remedy or leadership for what's actually right and proper within their businesses. When will the people of this country begin to move away from all these greedy companies that are more a part of the huge problems in this country rather than a tiny bit of solution and relief for customers that they have the ability to provide, but choose not to do as it would lessen "profit margins". Very bad and scary experience! Did not choose tmobile for cellular services!

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Date of experience: December 16, 2021

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California
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November 11th, 2019

I had no issues with T-Mobile until the end when we were trying to cancel our account because we were planning on moving. First of all, I had to pay over $100 just to cancel (this was not including paying off my phone or Apple Watch, I had already done that). Second, after we cancelled for about a month we got an auto withdrawal for the same monthly amount as usual. When we called they said that since we canceled on the same day as the new cycle began, we had to pay for the whole last month instead of just the day use. If that's a policy then fine but at least tell me that when I cancel! The amount was also including payments for items that I previously paid off to cancel! I told them it was a mistake but they said there was nothing they could do after talking to 2 different managers. Look, if that's some sort of policy that's fine but why didn't they tell me that as a heads up when I talked to them in the first place? We though that was the end of it but today, 3 months later we got another auto withdrawal from T-Mobile! We called customer service AGAIN & they said that apparently the tablet we got for free (as a promotion a while ago) wasn't paid off & needed to be paid off! So why did they tell me I paid everything off months before & why are they making me finish paying for it if it was free over a year ago? Overall, just to cancel we ended up paying over $500 AFTER paying off our devices. This company cares about you until you want to cancel & then they don't care. Their service is horrible & the company we are with now, we are paying less for 2 phones than we were with T-Mobile for 1 phone. Will never go back.

Date of experience: November 11, 2019

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North Carolina
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July 6th, 2023

Trying all day to redeem. 2:00 pm oops page. Called cs still got the oops! Page 7:00pm same oops.
Should have changed.

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Date of experience: July 5, 2023

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Minnesota
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August 3rd, 2023

Horrible services waste of time save your self from headache and frustration there is better services out there and T-Mobile is not it by far!

Date of experience: August 3, 2023

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New York
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October 1st, 2023

T. Mobile hired off shore people making errors on people phone bills. T. Mobile looking for cheap labor.

Date of experience: October 1, 2023

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Alabama
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August 24th, 2022

I never been hold this long in my life. Not what I had in mind with T-Mobile. What happen to them? :(

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Date of experience: August 24, 2022

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Michigan
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December 16th, 2022

Tried to draft $80.93 after they took 40 a week earlier. Bill wasn't due for 2 more days they said the extra fees are for reconnect fees

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Date of experience: December 16, 2022

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