T-Mobile retires legacy plans, prompting price hikes and customer backlash
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"T-Mobile retires legacy plans, prompting price hikes and customer backlash" is generating significant coverage in the Technology category, with 3 articles from 3 distinct sources tracked by PULSE so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include The Verge, Lifehacker and Mashable. PULSE measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Coverage (3)
- T-Mobile is booting customers from its oldest plans The Verge · 44d ago
- Your T-Mobile Bill Might Be Going Up Lifehacker · 44d ago
- T-Mobile will automatically upgrade some legacy phone plans to higher-price plans Mashable · 44d ago
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