BELLEVUE, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oh, it’s ON. Today through webcast, T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) unveiled the corporate’s newest Un-carrier transfer, three distinct streaming providers — TVision LIVE, VIBE and CHANNELS — and the TVision HUB, a brand new streaming machine, obtainable nationwide on November 1. T-Mobile is taking the Un-carrier struggle to the Cableopoly, disrupting one other damaged business by giving prospects extra selections at ultra-competitive costs.
TVision is TV executed proper. Customers can reduce the twine for as little as $10/month for leisure channels or get dwell sports activities and information beginning at simply $40/month. It’s the whole lot you like about cable and streaming providers, minus the stuff you don’t, like clunky containers, annual contracts and costly bloated packages simply to get the channels you really need. And, not like different apps, TVision launches with a fleet of useful people in 1000’s of retail shops nationwide, on-line and on the telephone, educated to assist prospects navigate the cord-cutting complexities that go away them bundle-bound. So you’ll be able to reduce the twine, reduce the price and reduce the crap.
“People are prepared for actual alternative and actual change in house TV, possibly this yr greater than ever earlier than. That’s precisely what TVision delivers… all at costs you’ll love. You can reduce the twine for as little as ten {dollars} a month with TVision VIBE. Or if you’d like dwell information and sports activities, you may get it beginning at simply forty {dollars} a month with TVision LIVE. That’s TVision, and THAT is TV executed proper!” mentioned Mike Sievert, CEO of T-Mobile. “The Cableopoly holds TV followers hostage, bundling dwell information and sports activities into costly packages with a whole bunch of different channels that folks don’t need, and don’t watch. Something’s gotta change. And that’s what the Un-carrier does finest — power change. Just like we modified wi-fi for good — at this time we’re going to vary TV for good!”
TVision launches with three totally different streaming providers: TVision LIVE, VIBE and CHANNELS.
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TVision LIVE: The main TVision service and a complete game-changer for anybody who desires dwell information and sports activities, obtainable in three packages starting from $40-$60/month, together with native stations. Watch with as much as three simultaneous streams with 100 hours of cloud DVR, and get entry to over 10,000 applications on-demand.
- TVision Live TV: Just $40/month for 30+ channels that includes high sports activities and information.
- TVision Live TV+: All of the above plus 10+ more channels, together with regional sports activities, soccer and golf, for simply $50/month. That’s $15/month lower than YouTube TV!
- TVision Live Zone: The best option for sports activities followers to get into the zone with professional sports activities networks and extra! At simply $60/month, it consists of the entire above, plus 10 additional channels. You can’t discover this content material at a lower cost. Period.
- TVision VIBE: The better of comedy, way of life and drama. It’s the bottom value to chop the twine and nonetheless get all this unimaginable content material. Just $10/month for an excellent choice of 30+ channels from most of the most-watched networks on TV, together with 1000’s of applications on demand, with as much as two simultaneous streams.
- TVision CHANNELS: Create your personal distinctive lineup with a-la-carte streaming providers with one invoice, one login and one place to handle all of it within the T-Mobile app or on-line, beginning with STARZ, SHOWTIME® and EPIX.
For full channel lineups, head to T-Mobile.com/TVision.
Stream TVision LIVE, VIBE and CHANNELS on all of your screens. Just obtain the brand new T-Mobile TVision app from the App Store and watch on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV 4K or Apple TV HD. You may also obtain the app on Google Play on your telephone or pill, or obtain and watch on Amazon Fire TV, Android TVTM or Google TVTM.
Or, to look at in your front room TV, you can too get the brand new TVision HUB, an HDMI streaming machine and distant for simply $50. TVision HUB runs Android TV so you’ll be able to add all of your favourite streaming apps … like Netflix (on us, with two or extra traces on Magenta) and others not but inside CHANNELS … even video games and music, and stream it multi function spot. You may even join Bluetooth headphones and recreation controllers. TVision HUB additionally comes with an intuitive distant that works quite a bit like your cable one did. It’s received a well-known information for simple present discoverability and added voice management with Google Assistant that allows you to simply search throughout ALL your apps to search out no matter you’re within the temper to look at, plus get solutions from Google, management good house gadgets and extra.
TV Un-Complicated
Because they’re from T-Mobile, these new TVision providers are easy, simple and simple to make use of. There’s no containers and no bloat. Right-sized lineups, and you may get one, two or all of the providers. There are not any annual contracts. No exploding plans. Just one invoice on your wi-fi and TV, with one login to handle all of it within the T-Mobile app. And, if you want it, get assist from actual people with your personal devoted T-Mobile Team of Experts.
Taking the Un-carrier Fight to the Cableopoly
In the midst of COVID-19, we’re watching greater than ever — TV viewing is up 74% yr over yr. And whereas Americans love TV, they’re no followers of TV suppliers. Out of 46 industries ranked within the American Customer Satisfaction Index, cable TV ranks dead last. In a latest survey, almost 40% of respondents mentioned they’d fairly get a root canal than deal with a cable firm. A root canal!
And it’s no shock why. Big cable serves up cumbersome containers, lengthy annual contracts, exploding plans, loopy charges, sky-high payments and lengthy wait instances spent questioning if the cable man will really present up. The common cable invoice is greater than $156/month.
Yet, as painful because the Cableopoly is, many keep caught. While persons are fleeing in droves, some 65% of American households STILL have cable or satellite tv for pc TV, and it’s no secret why. Nearly 80% say they hold cable for dwell information and sports activities.
And even the streaming providers designed that can assist you reduce the twine with dwell TV have begun to look quite a bit like Big Cable. Over time, they’ve turn out to be an increasing number of bloated, forcing you to pay an increasing number of for extra channels, particularly if you’d like dwell information and sports activities. In reality, 5 of the most important cord-cutting suppliers have raised costs 15 instances within the final three years, some nearly doubling the worth from after they first launched.
Helping America Un-Cable
The different large motive folks keep with the Cableopoly: reducing the twine is complicated. Nearly half of cable prospects mentioned they’d go away, however they’ll’t work out methods to get precisely what they need with out cable. To assist folks navigate the cord-cutting complexities that hold them bundle-bound, tens of 1000’s of T-Mobile staff stand on the prepared — on-line, on the telephone or in 1000’s of shops nationwide — to assist America Un-cable. These specialists know one of the best native choices and limitations to allow them to assist you to breeze by means of the method of cord-cutting if you’re able to make the transfer.
More Reasons to Switch
Getting extra on your cash is extra necessary than ever, and now with TVision providers, there’s by no means been a greater time to switch to T-Mobile. At T-Mobile, you may get 4 traces of limitless speak and textual content with 5G entry AND TVision Live TV, for $160 a month … that’s simply $40/line for 4 traces on Essentials and consists of 30+ channels of one of the best dwell sports activities and information. A household of 4 on AT&T or Verizon with a mean cable invoice can save over $2,000 a yr after they change … $1,800 when reducing the twine, and as much as a further $240/yr or extra on their wi-fi invoice on many AT&T and Verizon plans! And if you ditch AT&T or Verizon for T-Mobile, you’ll level-up with more 5G coverage on the nation’s largest 5G network (at no additional price, after all) AND tons of Un-carrier benefits. Welcome to the fam.
Just the Start
TVision is a part of T-Mobile’s 5G strategy and vision to provide customers actual choices to the cable firms. Because even if you reduce the twine, you’ll be able to’t give up Big Cable completely. The Cableopoly are additionally the nation’s greatest house web service suppliers. Now that Sprint has joined T-Mobile, the Un-carrier is constructing a 5G community with unprecedented protection and capability in order that hundreds of thousands of Americans — particularly these in rural areas — will lastly have extra choices for wi-fi and residential broadband. T-Mobile’s mounted wi-fi broadband will ship in-home service to over half of U.S. households by 2026, and which means extra competitors, extra selections and higher service for all. T-Mobile’s 5G Home Internet, collectively with TVision, means hundreds of thousands will lastly … lastly … be capable of say goodbye to the Cableopoly for good. Buckle up, Big Cable. The Un-carrier is right here.
Availability
TVision streaming providers and the TVision HUB can be obtainable nationwide for all T-Mobile postpaid prospects beginning November 1. Just add your TVision providers at T-Mobile.com/TVision, head to the app shops for the app, and if you happen to go for the HUB, you may get it on the hyperlink above, or in a store near you. And, it’ll all be obtainable to legacy Sprint prospects later in November, and subsequent yr for pay as you go prospects. Starting at this time, head to T-Mobile.com/TVision for more information or to enter your e mail to be alerted when TVision providers launch for you.
Pricing comparisons to marketed costs and common client cable invoice; options/channels will differ. Limited-time provide; topic to vary. TVision providers: Qualifying T-Mobile postpaid wi-fi service & Internet connectivity required. Plus taxes. Check to verify channels in your house space, decided by billing handle. Channels can change & some will not be obtainable exterior house space or as a consequence of blackouts. Up to three concurrent streams for TVision LIVE and CHANNELS; as much as 2 concurrent streams for TVision VIBE. One family with TV-connected gadgets per account. Video high quality depends upon Internet connection; on T-Mobile community video usually streams on smartphone/pill at 480p; 1080p with Plus plans. TVision HUB is a Wi-Fi machine; requires Internet connection and appropriate router. Subscriptions required for TVision providers or different streaming providers. 4 traces of Essentials with TVision Live TV for $160/month plus taxes and charges. During congestion, Essentials prospects could discover speeds decrease than different prospects and additional discount if utilizing >50GB/mo., as a consequence of information prioritization. 5G: Capable machine required; protection not obtainable in some areas. While 5G entry will not require a sure plan or characteristic, some makes use of/providers would possibly. See Coverage particulars, Terms and Conditions, and Open Internet info for community administration particulars (like video optimization) at T-Mobile.com. See TVision.com and T-Mobile.com for extra info.
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About T-Mobile US, Inc.
T-Mobile U.S. Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) is America’s supercharged Un-carrier, delivering a sophisticated 4G LTE and transformative nationwide 5G community that can provide dependable connectivity for all. T-Mobile’s prospects profit from its unmatched mixture of worth and high quality, unwavering obsession with providing them the absolute best service expertise and undisputable drive for disruption that creates competitors and innovation in wi-fi and past. Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile offers providers by means of its subsidiaries and operates its flagship manufacturers, T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile and Sprint. For extra info please go to: http://www.t-mobile.com.
