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T-Mobile Eases Smartphone Costs for Less Qualified Buyers

By Staff Author | January 22, 2015

T-Mobile today announced Smartphone Equality, a new program that will allow subscribers with lower credit ratings to still buy smartphones and tablets with zero down, no interest and no credit check.

Now every T-Mobile customer who’s paid their wireless bill on time for 12 consecutive months will qualify for the lowest up-front pricing on devices.

The program starts Jan. 25 and customers who have already been with T-Mobile for a year or longer and made 12 consecutive online payments will immediately qualify. The deal is extended to any customer with a monthly voice plan, either postpaid or prepaid.

T-Mobile claims that one out of every two customers that try to buy a smartphone through a carrier won’t qualify for the lowest price.

T-Mobile CEO John Legere posted a video blog outlining the carrier’s reasoning behind the new deal. He blasted credit scores as numbers originating from “some nameless, faceless bureaucracy.”

Legere said that T-Mobile research indicates subprime customers with a 12-month history of on-time payments perform better than new prime customers.

“It’s not just the right thing to do. It’s good business,” Legere said a video post.

 

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