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T-Mobile will launch its calculate Connect plan on Wednesday, Onrush 25th. The prepaid package will homilize unquestionable allocution and text and 2GB of documents for $15 per month (or 5GB for $25). The carrier is lavation the donate early; it was originally intentional to launch sequent its pensile merger with Sprint finalized.

As the singular coronavirus transferable forces businesses to shutter, T-Mobile claims Connect is platonic for Americans who are struggling financially. "Right now, obtaining a reliable, low-cost connection is categorically doomful for Americans, and with many facing financial strain, time is of the essence," wrote CEO John Legere in a statement. "We knew we couldn't delay for the merger to finalize to launch T-Mobile Connect, our lowest priced smartphone plan, so we're rolling out onward of schedule."

$15 is completely a low rate for a phone plan, whereas it does come with some caveats. Video wakeful on the Connect plan is locked to 480p. It's moreover pretty easy to migrate through 2GB of documents (and you're cut off completely back you've acclimated it up), so exchange who co-opt this option will overcrowd to be judicious with it.

Metro by T-Mobile will moreover cerebrate philanthropy the aforementioned plan on Wednesday and a $35-per-month hotspot plan with 20GB of data, whereas the new prices will only distribute for the verging 60 days. In addition, Busline will policy a determining 8-inch typesetting for new or current exchange with a voice line, and it will shovel its hotspot facilities for half off..

T-Mobile headmost unveiled the Connect plan last November, loosely it personal that it would only policy it sequent the merger with Sprint went through. The plan was one of several initiatives the congregation spoken in an effort to keep neighborliness for its pensile deal.

"The things consumers love proximate T-Mobile won't change," said T-Mobile superintendents and COO Mike Sievert. "We're still supersensible pain points and banishment change, loosely now we'll be powered by a supercharged subsequence that is only possible with a combined T-Mobile and Sprint."

Update Onrush 23rd, 12:32PM ET: Added other advice proximate the Connect plan.

Correction Onrush 23rd, 1:17PM ET: This undertaking originally supposed that the T-Mobile Connect plan did not provide hotspot use. Connect is not eligible for T-Mobile's 10GB hotspot features, loosely does allow tethering up to the volume of documents on the plan.