{"id":341877,"date":"2017-05-24T21:41:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T13:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/05\/24\/tmobile-will-pay-off-verizon-iphones\/"},"modified":"2017-05-24T21:41:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T13:41:43","slug":"t-mobile-will-pay-off-your-iphone-if-you-switch-from-verizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/t-mobile-will-pay-off-your-iphone-if-you-switch-from-verizon\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile Will Pay Off Your iPhone If You Switch From Verizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[unable to retrieve full-text content]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile today introduced a <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.t-mobile.com\/news-and-blogs\/get-out-of-the-red.htm\">limited time promotion<\/a> to encourage Verizon customers with select iPhone models to switch to their network.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/03\/iphone_trio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"355\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-556237\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nStarting May 31, when a Verizon customer with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/iphone-7\/\">iPhone 7<\/a>, iPhone 7 Plus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/iphone-6s\/\">iPhone 6s<\/a>, iPhone 6s Plus, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/iphone-se\/\">iPhone SE<\/a> brings their smartphone to T-Mobile, they&#8217;ll be able to keep the device, and have any remaining monthly payments owing towards it paid off in full, whether it&#8217;s &#36;1 or &#36;1,000.<\/p>\n<p>The catch is that Verizon customers will be required to pay &#36;15 per month for T-Mobile&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/uncarrier.t-mobile.com\/premium-device-protection-plans\">Premium Device Protection Plus<\/a> insurance program in addition to their new T-Mobile ONE plan. The insurance program protects an iPhone from loss, theft, and accidental damage.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for T-Mobile told <em>MacRumors<\/em> that the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/applecare\/\">AppleCare<\/a>+ perks of the Premium Device Protection Plus plan are not included since the iPhones switched over aren&#8217;t purchased as new.<\/p>\n<p>The offer will be available at T-Mobile stores across the United States next week. T-Mobile says the balance of any remaining device payments will be provided in the form of a digital prepaid MasterCard in approximately 15 to 30 days. Customers must remain with T-Mobile for 60+ days after switching.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkback\">Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/t-mobile\/\">T-Mobile<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/verizon\/\">Verizon<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/tmobile-will-pay-off-verizon-iphones.2047013\/\">Discuss this article<\/a> in our forums<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=NNFN-cTIxwg:hLUSAgXc1LI:6W8y8wAjSf4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=6W8y8wAjSf4\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=NNFN-cTIxwg:hLUSAgXc1LI:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MacRumors-All\/~4\/NNFN-cTIxwg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-341877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}