T-Mobile will soon require half your phone to be paid off before upgrading with Jump

T-Mobile will soon require half your phone to be paid off before upgrading with Jump

Feb 14th 2014, 19:14, by Dante D'Orazio

T-Mobile is modifying its Jump early upgrade plan later this month, and all of the changes aren't for the better. Come February 23rd, Jump customers will no longer be limited to two upgrades per year. Instead, you'll be able to upgrade whenever you want and as often as you want. But there's a catch: with the modified plan, you'll have to pay off at least half of the total cost of a phone before you can upgrade.
For example, on the old Jump plan, if you bought an iPhone 5S, you'd pay zero down and then $27 per month towards the full cost of the phone ($648). After six months, you could then upgrade to a new phone simply by trading in the iPhone 5S and paying the down payment (often zero). In the case of an upgrade after just six months,...
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