T-Mobile by the Hour
T-Mobile is the carrier most people rent from us when they want 5G and have a short job. Two hours on a T-Mobile 5G line is $3; the same on 4G is $2. Below is what you should know before you pick it: what an IP lookup says about a T-Mobile address, where our T-Mobile hardware sits, how its 4G and 5G lines differ, how rotation and sticky sessions behave on this network, who tends to choose it, and what you pay as the meter runs.
What a T-Mobile address reports
An IP lookup on a T-Mobile line names T-Mobile USA as the network owner and shows the route coming from AS21928, the autonomous system that carries T-Mobile's consumer mobile traffic. The connection type is listed as cellular. Fraud and risk tools that classify by ASN put it in the same bucket as every T-Mobile handset in the country, because that is exactly what it is: a T-Mobile SIM in a T-Mobile-registered device.
Like all US mobile addresses, a T-Mobile address is shared behind carrier NAT with a large number of real subscribers. T-Mobile's address pools are large and regional, and a single public address can front thousands of phones at once. For you this means the address carries the reputation of a crowd of ordinary users, and what a site attributes to you is the behavior that happens during your hours on the line.
Our T-Mobile footprint
T-Mobile SIMs sit in our hardware in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Miami, North Carolina and Boston. Availability in any one city depends on who is renting what at that moment. The checkout page is the source of truth: it lists cities, carriers and 4G or 5G as they are free right now. If a city and carrier combination is not showing, [email protected] can tell you when it is likely to come back or suggest the closest alternative.
Every T-Mobile line is one SIM in one device we own, used by one customer at a time. There is no pool of borrowed phones behind it and no other tenant sharing it during your purchase.
T-Mobile on 4G and on 5G
A 4G T-Mobile line usually runs 20 to 45 Mbps. A 5G T-Mobile line runs 50 Mbps and up when the device has good signal, and T-Mobile's 5G coverage is wide, which is why many people pick it when speed matters for a short job. Large uploads, screen recordings, video QA from a mobile network and bulk API calls all go faster here.
Hourly prices are $2 for the first two hours on 4G and $3 on 5G, then $2 or $3 per added hour. If the task is a login, a check or a scrape of a few hundred pages, 4G is plenty and saves a dollar. If it involves moving real data in two hours, take 5G.
Changing the address, keeping the address
Rotation on T-Mobile works by resetting the data session; the gateway then hands out an address from the regional pool. Sometimes you get a different address and sometimes a repeat; both are normal. Trigger it from the rotation link, the API, the dashboard, a timer or by hand, as many times as the job needs within your hours.
A line left alone keeps its address while T-Mobile keeps the session open. Keep a trickle of traffic going and a sticky session will last through a two-hour job comfortably. Rotate between tasks rather than in the middle of one if the task involves being signed in.
Who takes T-Mobile for an hour or two
QA engineers testing an app or a site against a real US 5G connection buy a T-Mobile 5G line for two hours and run their suite. Teams checking ad delivery or search results on a mobile network in a specific city use it for a pass and stop. Developers writing code against the rotation API use a T-Mobile hour as a cheap sandbox. People whose own phone is on T-Mobile sometimes rent a T-Mobile line to reproduce what they see on their handset from a different city. In each case the job fits in a few hours, and the hour is cheaper than the day.
Buying the hours
Pick T-Mobile, a city, and 4G or 5G in the dashboard, the mobile app or @HourlyProxiesBot on Telegram. Pay $2 or $3 and the line comes up at once with two hours on it. Add hours one at a time at the same rate, up to a total of four per purchase. The purchase ends on its own when the hours are used; there is no renewal and no further charge.
Past four hours the day pass is the better deal: $5 on 4G or $6 on 5G. The dashboard will offer to upgrade an hourly purchase into a day and put the hours you already paid toward the day price, so stretching a job never costs more than a day would have. A week is $28 or $31 and a month $65 or $75 if the T-Mobile line turns out to be something you want to keep.
T-Mobile proxy questions
Is a two-hour T-Mobile 5G line really 5G?
Yes. It is a T-Mobile SIM in a 5G device in the city you chose. Speed depends on signal at the device; 50 Mbps and up is typical, and support can tell you how a specific city has been performing.
Will a site know I am on a proxy rather than a phone?
The address is a T-Mobile USA address from AS21928, shared with real handsets behind carrier NAT. There is nothing in the address itself that distinguishes it from a phone; what sites judge is behavior.
Can I move my T-Mobile hours to another city?
Yes. Location moves between our cities are free and self-service in the dashboard, and the remaining time carries over. Stock in the new city has to be free at that moment.