T-Mobile wants to help more pay-TV customers cut the cord with its new streaming service TVision

T-Mobile is expanding its effort to take over your TV.

TVision, a new TV streaming service starting at $40 monthly, will give T-Mobile customers a way to get live news and sports without renting a cable box or signing annual contracts.

The $40 basic TVision package includes 30 or more TV channels including CNN, Fox News, ESPN, FS1, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox Business Network, TBS, TNT, Disney – and in some markets local ABC, Fox and NBC channels (no CBS channels). You can also store 100 hours of cloud recordings and watch more than 10,000 on-demand programs.

Higher-priced tiers come with more sports channels including The NFL Network, NBCSN, Golf Channel and regional sports networks ($50 monthly), and NFL Red Zone and eight more channels including the Longhorn Network ($60 monthly).

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The TVision Vibe option ($10 monthly), which can be ordered on its own, targets current streaming homes and bypasses news and sports with 30 channels including AMC, BET, Discover, Food Network, HGTV, MTV and more.

Using TVision Channels, customers can also create their own lineup of premium channels including Starz, Showtime and Epix. (There's no HBO as of yet, perhaps because AT&T has its own HBO Max service, which just launched in May.)

"Just like we changed wireless for good now we are going to change TV for good," said T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert during an online video announcement.

TVision becomes available for T-Mobile prepaid wireless customers on Nov. 1. Later in the month, legacy Sprint customers can sign up. Next year, prepaid customers will gain access and eventually non-T-Mobile customers will. Consumers can get more information and sign up on the T-Mobile website.

You can watch using a TVision app coming to Google Play and Apple's App Store on Android and iOS phones, tablets and devices including Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Google TV. You can also buy a TVision Hub ($50), which is similar to a Google Chromecast, to connect to your TV.

Sievert touts TVision's savings and flexibility and it does offer some savings, noted analyst Rich Greenfield, partner and media and technology analyst at LightShed Partners. The basic package is $25 cheaper than YouTube TV ($64.99 monthly, 85+ channels) and $15 cheaper than Hulu + Live TV ($54.99, 60+ channels), he says. However, you TVision does not have CBS, which carries NFL games.

However, you can subscribe separately to CBS All Access ($5.99 monthly) for games broadcast in local markets

Also missing on TVision, Greenfield says, are channels from Discovery, Viacom and AMC. You would need to subscribe to TVision Vibe, too, to get many of those channels.

The new service builds on TVision Home TV, a pay-TV service T-Mobile launched in several markets last year. The purchase of TV company Layer3 in 2017 served as T-Mobile's entry ramp into the pay-TV business. Layer3 used broadband internet to send live TV to subscribers using a set-top box with a 1 Terabyte DVR.

So far, T-Mobile's TVision Home TV service, which offers more than 154 channels and starts at $90 monthly, is available only in Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. metro area and Longmont, Colo., where TV company Layer3 was headquartered.

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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: T-Mobile's TVision live TV service: Streaming TV gets a new entrant