T-Mobile is vastly improving its Protection 360 plan without increasing your monthly costs
Four big upgrades, zero additional costs
- Unlimited accidental damage claims, including front screen and back glass repair;
- $0 front screen repairs for “eligible” smartphones;
- Back glass repair for $29 for eligible smartphones;
- Front screen repair for $29 for eligible iPad Pro and iPad Air models.
T-Mobile’s upcoming Protection 360 upgrades were first revealed in this leaked document.
Those gratis front screen repairs sound particularly amazing (even if it’s not entirely clear what phones will be eligible), currently costing $29 a pop, which can obviously add up if you have some sort of aversion to screen protectors.
The back glass repairs, meanwhile, will be a new thing for the Protection 360 plan, allowing you to save a lot of money over the $99 charged for “accidental damage” of this sort (and many other types) right now.
“Eligible” iPad Pros and iPad Airs will apparently not get the same courtesy, still lumping back glass repairs together with other instances of “accidental damage”, but for what it’s worth (and it can be worth a lot), front screen repairs will also get cheaper for these devices.
Wait, so how much is Protection 360 again?
Unfortunately, your monthly price can vary quite a lot depending on what kind of phone or tablet you own, starting as low as $7 and going all the way up to $25.
These prices are amazingly set to remain the same even after October 1. | Image Credit — T-Mobile
That actually seems to be true for most high-end smartphones released in the last few years, while the entry-level Samsung Galaxy A14, for instance, is a “Tier 2” device with a $9 monthly P360 cost.
Protection 360 recently expanded to accept phones and tablets at any point after their purchase, mind you, but if you don’t enroll your device when you first get it, it will have to clear a visual mechanical inspection in a T-Mobile store to qualify.
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