Using Flexible Boosters to customise your T-Mobile contract
April 11th, 2010
Customers signing up to T-Mobile contracts after February 2010 have supporting “Flexible Boosters” – a feature can be used to customise your contract for extra calls or texts and occasionally cut your phone bills too.
What are flexible boosters?
Flexible boosters are add-ons to T-Mobile Pay Monthly contracts. Every T-Mobile Pay Monthly contract (including SIM only tariffs) is bundled with one free flexible booster and you will receive one free flexible booster regardless of the price point of your tariff (i.e. whether you’re on the cheapest £10/month contract or on the most expensive contract you will get a free flexible booster). Additional flexible boosters can be purchased for £5/month.
photo: *saipal
Customers who purchase T-Mobile contracts with an Android smartphone will also receive a free “unlimited” internet flexible booster with 3GB fair usage. This internet flexible booster is required for the phone to work correctly so is offered for free in addition to another flexible booster. We particularly like the combination of an unlimited texts booster and an unlimited internet booster – both of which would be free when purchasing an Android smartphone on T-Mobile (such as the HTC Desire). The combination of these two flexible boosters give you “unlimited” texts and internet from £10/month – a pretty good combination.
Existing customers could also find that they save money by purchasing an additional flexible booster – for example if you currently spend £10/month on calls to landlines, you could save money by purchasing the £5 unlimited landline talk booster.
What are the available options?
Unlimited Text
- What do you get? Unlimited texts to UK mobiles and UK landline numbers (beginning with 01, 02 or 03 and excluding Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man)
- How much would this cost normally? Texts outside of your allowance normally cost 12p each.
- Existing T-Mobile Customers:
- Make this your free Flexible Booster: Text FLXB1 to 879
- Add to your existing T-Mobile contract for £5/month: Text UTXT to 879 or call customer services on 150
Unlimited Internet
- What do you get? 1GB of data. T-Mobile say that if you exceed this fair use limit, you won’t be charged automatically but you could have your data usage restricted.
- How much would this cost normally? £1/day.
- Existing T-Mobile Customers:
- Make this your free Flexible Booster: Text FLXB2 to 879
- Add to your existing T-Mobile contract for £5/month: Text WEB to 879 or call customer services on 150
photo: Tycho Moon
Unlimited calls to landlines
- What do you get? Unlimited calls to UK landline numbers (beginning with 01, 02 or 03 and excluding Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man)
- How much would this cost normally? Calls to landlines outside of your call allowance cost 30p/minute.
- Existing T-Mobile Customers:
- Make this your free Flexible Booster: Text FLXB3 to 879
- Add to your existing T-Mobile contract for £5/month: Text ULAN to 879 or call customer services on 150
Unlimited calls to T-Mobile
- What do you get? Unlimited calls to other T-Mobile customers.
- How much would this cost normally? Calls to other T-Mobile customers outside of your call allowance cost 30p/minute.
- Existing T-Mobile Customers:
- Make this your free Flexible Booster: Text FLXB4 to 879
- Add to your existing T-Mobile contract for £5/month: Text UTMO to 879 or call customer services on 150
Euro talk & text
- What do you get? You’ll get £7.50 of international calling credit to spend on calls and texts whilst in Europe. In those countries, calls “cost 43p per minute, calls you receive will cost 19p per minute and each text costs 11p”.
- Which countries are covered? According to T-Mobile: “Ireland, Isle of Man, Austria, Azores, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madeira, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden”
- How much would this cost normally? See above.
- Existing T-Mobile Customers:
- Make this your free Flexible Booster: Text FLXB5 to 879
- Add to your existing T-Mobile contract for £5/month: Text EURO5 to 879 or call customer services on 150
photo: Wolfgang Staudt
USA & Canada talk
- What do you get? 120 international calling minutes to landlines and mobiles in USA and Canada. The minutes are to be used from within in the UK.
- How much would this cost normally? Calls to USA and Canada normally normally cost 70p/minute.
- Existing T-Mobile Customers:
- Make this your free Flexible Booster: Text FLXB6 to 879
- Add to your existing T-Mobile contract for £5/month: Text USA5 to 879 or call customer services on 150
Europe & Australasia talk
- What do you get? 60 international calling minutes to landlines and mobiles in Europe and Australasia. The minutes are to be used from within in the UK.
- Which countries are covered? According to T-Mobile: “Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Channel Islands, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Rep, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Rep, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey”
- How much would this cost normally? Calls to Europe & Australasia normally normally cost 70p/minute.
- Existing T-Mobile Customers:
- Make this your free Flexible Booster: Text FLXB7 to 879
- Add to your existing T-Mobile contract for £5/month: Text EUA5 to 879 or call customer services on 150
There is more information on Flexible Boosters at the T-Mobile website.
How often can you change your flexible boosters?
You can change your Flexible Boosters every 30 days.
Is it worth signing up for extra flexible boosters?
Check to see if any of the flexible boosters above would save you more than £5/month. If so, you’ll save money with that Flexible Booster. For example, if you currently make 20 minutes of calls to the USA per month, you’ll spend £14/month on those calls. With the Flexible Booster, that comes down to £5/month.
How do I sign up to T-Mobile?
You can order Pay Monthly contracts and SIM only contracts through the T-Mobile website.
We recommend the HTC Wildfire Android smartphone (reviewed here) – with the correct choice of flexible boosters you can have 100 minutes, unlimited texts and 3GB internet on a cutting edge smartphone for £99 upfront and £10/month.
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