Because you still get data after reaching 21 GB of using, and you do not incur additional charges on your bill after exceeding 21 GB worth of data transfer.
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T-Mobile Simple Choice Plans Updated With 21 GB Soft Cap on Data Usage
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You're forgetting that this doesn't apply to everyone who goes over 21GB, but those who happen to be using very congested cell sites. We don't yet know how congested it even has to be before you're slowed down.
Yeah, not really. Deutsche Telekom hasn't really been putting money into T-Mobile US, which has consistently lost money for several years.
You don't have to like throttling (no one does) but this may be one of the top 10 worst analogies in macrumors history.
At the risk of sounding like I am defending T-Mobile, there are few differences.
1. T-Mobile hasn't been soft capping until very recently (I think about last 2months).
2. With T-Mobile, there's no contract.
3. De-prioritization happens only when the tower is congested.
4. Certain data, such as music streaming from select services, won't be affected.
5. In exchange, those on unlimited plans now get 7GB of tethered data access (2GB more than before), which will be throttled to 128 Kbps after instead of being cut oof altogether like before.
Having said that, I do think T-Mobile should offer Data Stash to unlimited plan. Those using less than 21GB per month should be able to roll unused data for 12 months.
Anyway, I look forward to tomorrow's Un-Carrier 10.0 Amped event, where T-Mobile will be improving many of previous Un-Carrier features to the next level.
Because it isn't. De-prioritization only matters when you are connected to a congested tower. At a different location or perhaps overnight when the tower is less congested there won't be anyone with priority. When there isn't anyone with priority over you, full speed. The other thing to know, which those who are more technically inclined can further explain: I'm told T-Mobile went for a dense overlapping network. Which to me, sounds like multiple towers covering the same area providing more capacity per user. Therefore allowing reducing the occurrences where being de-prioritized would matter. Where as AT&T and Verizon when for coverage over capacity.
In a way, they've been capping a lot of areas in the way of limited backhaul. Lots of sites across lots of cities were limited to 40Mbps down, even if they may have been utilizing 30 or 40MHz of AWS for LTE. In my area, over the past couple of weeks, the limit is now around 50Mbps, but sites that used to reach over 100Mbps down are also down to around 50. Upload is no faster than 12Mbps anywhere here either.
What I'm reading in the comments is....
Blah blah blah I can't read or understand this so I'd rather look dumb.
If you don't read the article or no what you are talking about, just don't comment.
To you other people trying to explain it to them. Good for you.
Blah blah blah I can't read or understand this so I'd rather look dumb.
If you don't read the article or no what you are talking about, just don't comment.
To you other people trying to explain it to them. Good for you.
Is it weird I have a T-Mobile prepaid sim ready to load into my phone at any given point and time? They do work!
Throttling to lower than 1Mbps wouldn't affect me much - my T-Mobile LTE data rarely clocks much higher than that anyway. At home I can sometimes get up to 3Mbps (sometimes) but at work it's never higher than 1Mbps. It's much faster for me to use WiFi.
I'm with T-Mobile and have been pleased with their unlimited plan. Far better compared to where I was before which was AT&T and had the grandfathered unlimited plan.
I was really annoyed when ever AT&T would throttle me when ever I hit 5GB within a week of a new billing cycle. Hence, why I jumped ship for T-Mobile as soon as my contract ended last November.
With this news of T-Mobile throttling at 21GB is equally annoying to me as I often go beyond 21GB on a monthly basis. However, 21GB during congested times is far more reasonable and usable than that paltry 5GB that AT&T was throwing at us.
I'm not a fan of throttling at all and hoping that the FCC steps in and regulates these telecoms.
I was really annoyed when ever AT&T would throttle me when ever I hit 5GB within a week of a new billing cycle. Hence, why I jumped ship for T-Mobile as soon as my contract ended last November.
With this news of T-Mobile throttling at 21GB is equally annoying to me as I often go beyond 21GB on a monthly basis. However, 21GB during congested times is far more reasonable and usable than that paltry 5GB that AT&T was throwing at us.
I'm not a fan of throttling at all and hoping that the FCC steps in and regulates these telecoms.
Well, if analogies are to be used at least they should be actually analogous. If you walk into such a business with some others and start eating lots and lots of M&Ms, more than others who are there with you, and over time as more other people come in at different times they might have a hard time getting their M&Ms as you and others are eating more and more, so the business slows down (but doesn't stop) giving you M&Ms so that others can get them as well until it lets up and there are less people and they can give you more.
When AT&T throttles, it's terrible. When T-Mobile throttles, it's a feature.
All carriers throttle. All ISPs throttle. It's required in some instances, though admittedly a lot of carriers take the proverbial with throttling. T-Mobile's previous throttling policy was 'if you're in the top X% of data usage'. By doing this they're clearing any ambiguity as to how much data that is. It also means you can monitor your usage more accurately, so you have an idea of when the throttling will come into effect.
I don't see how this is a bad thing.
They sell TV content through T-Mobile TV. Not sure why you'd really want to get those types of things through a carrier.
The way this was sold to us when we set up T-Mobile over a year ago was that there would never be any throttling if you paid for the Unlimited 4G LTE plan. So now it is at 21GB. What will it be at a few months from now. When I pay additional money for unlimited I expect it to be unlimited at all times. They are starting to slip a little bit from being the un-carrier
You're assuming that everyone will see the throttling at 21GB, which isn't the case. Only highly-congested areas will see this, though at that point, it may be hard to differentiate natural congestion and throttling.
I'm just saying that this was not what was sold to us. May we never get throttled? Sure, but once they start then it becomes easier for them to start setting other limits too.
False. Unlimited Verizon grandfathered plans on the LTE/XLTE network are NOT throttled.
T-Mobile seemed very careful not to use the word "throttle" because I don't think that's what this is. I think MacRumors added that word in. This is QoS, which prevents most users from being punished because they are sharing a tower with someone who is running Netflix all day, but allowing the superusers full speed as long as the network can handle it. If I understand properly the truly throttled data plans are capped at a particular bit-rate whether the network capacity is there to support faster speeds or not.