{"id":1033,"date":"2013-12-20T11:51:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T11:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2013-12-20T11:51:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T11:51:04","slug":"qa-can-i-get-a-new-phone-without-paying-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: Can I get a new phone without paying fees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Question by Lily<\/i>: Can I get a new phone without paying fees?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got an LG double play and am on t mobile. I am experiencing errors on my phone in which I cannot receive texts or calls but people can receive mine. I already used up my warranty because there was a manufacturing issue on the first one. Because of this issue and the previous one, I am beginning to think this phone is just a faulty design full of errors. My contract doesn&#8217;t go up until July 17 but I was wondering if there&#8217;s any way to get a new phone without having to pay the 0 to void the contract. I also don&#8217;t want to get a crappy cheap phone just to wait out until the contract goes up. Is there any way to get around this?? Thanks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by Jessie<\/i><br \/>Your contract is every 24 months, but the upgrade is 18 months. Anyways T-Mobile got rid of contracted plans, so you&#8217;d have to change your rate plan to the new 50 unlimited talk, text, web, and with a new upgrade, that&#8217;s going to put your bill at , depending on what phone you get. If it&#8217;s been less than 18 months since your last upgrade, there WILL be a transition fee unless you are already on a Value plan. Call and ask. If you&#8217;re on Classic, check when your last upgrade was.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question by Lily: Can I get a new phone without paying fees? I&#8217;ve got an LG double play and am on t mobile. I am experiencing errors on my phone in which I cannot receive texts or calls but people can receive mine. I already used up my warranty because there was a manufacturing issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2689,2688,136,322],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-flaws","tag-fees","tag-paying","tag-phone","tag-without"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}