MetroPCS

• Prepaid Plans
• Unique Plan Benefits
• No Overage Fees
• Good Phone Selection
• Add-On Services

Prepaid Plans

Depending on what plan a customer chooses plan pricing ranges anywhere between $30-$60. MetroPCS offers four simple, straightforward 4G LTE data plans:

• $30 per month
  • 2 GB of 4G LTE Data
  • 2 hours of video streaming
  • 100 hours of music streaming
  • 100 hours of social media
  • 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot
• $40 per month
  • 5 GB of 4G LTE Data
  • 8 hours of video streaming
  • Unlimited hours of music streaming
  • 300 hours of social media
  • 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot
• $50 per month
  • Unlimited use of 4G LTE Data
  • Unlimited video streaming
  • Unlimited hours of music streaming
  • Unlimited social media use
• $60 per month
  • Unlimited use of 4G LTE Data + 10 GB Hotspot
  • Unlimited video streaming
  • Unlimited hours of music streaming
  • Unlimited social media use

Unique Plan Benefits

Customers with the $50/month or $60/month plans get free access to Google One which gives you 100 GB cloud storage, mobile backup, family sharing, and other benefits. 

Customers with the $60/month unlimited plan also get free access to Amazon Prime including free shipping, TV streaming, movie streaming, and ad-free music.

MetroPCS offers a variety of affordable service plans for customers to choose from, especially for families. The family plan offers the best savings in the market for non-contract phones. A family can simply get an unlimited data plan or share the same data plan between multitudes of different lines.

No Overage Fees

There are no overage fees or contract fees for cell phone service with MetroPCS.

Good Phone Selection

Currently, MetroPCS offers a number of cell phone brands:

• Samsung
• Apple
• Motorola
• ZTE
• LG
• Alcatel

For customers who don’t plan on using a phone for streaming videos or music, MetroPCS has several “basic” or "flip" phones available.

There is the option for customers to keep their phone number and bring their phone over when they switch to MetroPCS. Before making the jump, prospective customers should make sure their phones are compatible with the MetroPCS Sim Card. In order to check, customers will need to check the IMEI number on their current phone. After this initial step, customers can enter their IMEI number on the MetroPCS site and find out if their phone is compatible.

However, MetroPCS does charge $10 for the SIM Card Kit. This kit includes the Nano SIM card, a Micro SIM card adapter, and a Standard SIM card adapter.

Add-On Services

MetroPCS has plenty of additional services that customers can add to their monthly plan, should they need it. Whether you need international calling capabilities or the ability to block unwanted callers, MetroPCS offers these types of services for a fairly low price. Some of the services include:

• Mexico Unlimited: pay $5/month
• MetroPCS Global Voice: pay $10/month
• 2 GB Extra Monthly Data: pay $5/month
• Select Shared Calling (1000 minutes): pay $10/month
• Name iD: pay $2/month
• Lookout Mobile Security Premium: pay $3/month

• Data Speed Limits

Data Speed Limits

One issue with MetroPCS is that it advertises all plans as being "unlimited" regarding data. 

In reality, a customer’s data plan has a designated allotment of high-speed data. After this amount is exhausted, data speed is reduced for the rest of the payment cycle.

If traffic is congested, the customers using more than 35 GB/month are especially prone to reduced download speeds while streaming video and other actions that utilize large data amounts because of T-Mobile's "prioritization" system.  

There may be times where MetroPCS is testing new services and customers gain temporary additional high-speed access, but as soon as the test is over, the access is revoked and customers will have access to the service as an additional purchase. Especially during congested times, MetroPCS customers may notice their speeds being reduced vs. those on the T-Mobile network directly through T-Mobile.