Smartphones

wait are you saying the company that is giving me a $30/mo service has bad service? =(

I've had tmobile for 7 years and they're no worse than the others.

so here's what I get on tmobile's site when I try to activate my phone at this url:
https://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/ActivateCodes.aspx


(this is what it's supposed to look like)
http://youtu.be/SgYAHWLsg9Y?t=1m25s

I tried in three different webbrowsers(two of which have never had any ad blocking mods installed) and two phones, same thing. What do you see when you go to that link?

well that's annoying. Hopefully it's something regional. I tried on my wife's phone via tmobile's service and got the blank page....

I get the same thing with firefox/chrome on my work computer!!

looks like other people are having problems:
http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/44361#

yeah it definitely seems to be a recent thing. There's a few people bitching about it on the internet but it's all very recent (yesterday afternoon)

It's working for me now.

so here's my activation process so far:
1. Get phone, navigate to tmobile site, it's down (see above)
2. Call tmobile's activation service. Guy takes all my info then says that he doesn't have the 30 dollar 5GB data plan at the bottom:http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans
3. Refresh tmobiles site every few hours until it works sometime this afternoon. It says my activation code is invalid, I'm thinking the guy somehow activated my phone and put it in a bad state.
4. Drive to the nearest tmobile store half an hour away. Guy says he doesn't have the 30 dollar5GB plan but I can do it online (lol) or go to walmart.
5. Go to walmart, they say their 'wireless service associate' went home for the day and will be back sometime tomorrow.