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Seen that sources were spot on, T-Mobile USA did announce iPhone 5 plans at yesterday's

Uncarrier event.

Wired has Big Fuchsia saying sales will start on April 12th in a kind of strange way.

True to announcements it made earlier this year, T-Mobile is no longer subsidizing phone so that iPhone 5 will cost you $499.

However, buyers won't have to pay that all at once.

According to Wired, T-Mobile is selling the iPhone

starting at $99 up front, no contract followed by 20 months of $20 payments on top of monthly

prepaid data plans.

Well, you can pay full price for the iPhone and drop the $ bucks a month. Your call. How does it

stack up against the plans that are already out there? Eh? A separate piece on the

plan from Tech Crunch says the basic $50 individual plan only lets people use 500 megabytes of high-speed

data before getting throttled. The data gets throttled. In case that's not enough, the

piece continues, heavy data users can chill out another $10 or $20 per line per month in exchange for 2 gigabytes or unlimited high-speed data respectively.

So $70 a month for unlimited plus $20 for the phone and yeah you're pretty

much paying about what you'd pay on other carriers. Except they don't offer unlimited.

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