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T-Mobile is going to be sued over this, I guarantee it. I'll do it myself if they start to throttle me. AT&T was successfully sued back from throttling their Unlimited Plans.
 
T-Mobile is going to be sued over this, I guarantee it. I'll do it myself if they start to throttle me. AT&T was successfully sued back from throttling their Unlimited Plans.

AT&T's current plans are just like T-Mobile's, where they'll throttle you based on possible congestion. AT&T changed it from 5GB after they were sued.
 
I'm at 63GB this month and I have noticed no difference.

You must be nervous with the cap now listed at 21MB. I'm assuming that T-Mobile will not immediately enforce this but what will you do if you start getting throttled ?

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.

It also sounds like an assumption on your part.
 
Right, if you think that way then they should sell all of their plans as unlimited and mention "Throttled after 1-3-5-21GB of usage"..
Guess what, they call the other ones 1-3-5GB plans but sell the 21GB as unlimited.. This is deceiving. And this type of acts are the reasons they make fun of the other companies..

And yes you don't get UNLIMITED 4G LTE, you get Unlimited data with only 21GB data with LTE speed, rest is useless, y'all know..
This is a trick, I don't like it.. And I don't like it who ever does that..
I use AT&T not Tmobile, but I will tell you that I prefer transparency instead of the top 5% of users approach. This way users can plan ahead.
 
AT&T was just fined $100M for doing this exact same thing. I never read, though, that they had to stop doing it, or that if they continue, there will be more fines. Even worse, all the customers that got screwed or gave up their unlimited plans get nothing.

Isn't it T-Mobile that is advertising truly unlimited 4G LTE (2 phones $100)?
 
Exactly. It's like walking into a business that has a huge advertisement "Unlimited M&M's". After paying and eating a few handfuls the manager stops you and starts hurling them as projectiles one-by-one at your forehead and says "eat as many as you can catch!" Who'd have a problem with that?!

So this in effect is what data throttling is. And everyone knows it is not in the spirit of the advertisement or what the consumer thinks they are buying.

Um what?

It's more like when you go to an unlimited crab legs place and the first 2 dishes are full of crab legs. Each time you ask for more, the amount of crab legs is reduced. It gets to the point the customer gets tired of asking for more crab legs due to the waiting time of the next batch which is small that you stop ordering.

Your analogy was seriously horrible. No carrier throws bits of data packets at your forehead nor does Joe's Crab shack or whatever unlimited crab leg place you have in your area..
 
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I use AT&T not Tmobile, but I will tell you that I prefer transparency instead of the top 5% of users approach. This way users can plan ahead.

I completely agree with you. Another example, let say I have the money and I'm more than willing to pay for unlimited (or whatever amount of data that I really need), because having constant data connection is what I need to make a living. Now, say I'm with T-mobile, and the best data plan money can buy with T-mboile is unlimited, now with the 21GB "soft" gap. So technically speaking if I'm traveling around and I have already reached my 21GB, I will never know for sure if I'm going to have a hard time using my data today, or if I'm the top 5% in a congested area. If that's the case, I'd rather pay for my data whether it's 20, 40 or 60GB. But at least I know I'm going to be able to get my 4G LTE.

I know many people here are saying that most likely we won't feel a thing, but I don't think that's the point. The point is what they are doing is deceiving, a total word game.
 
Because it's not a 21GB data plan. It's still unlimited usage no matter how you look at it.
It IS a 21GB plan... ALL plans at TMO have a high speed cap depending on what you sign up for... I am on a 1GB plan myself (near wifi a lot of the time) but if I exceed 1GB, I get throttled. No extra fees, no lack of services - just a lot lot slower.

So, when I hear from other people that the unlimited plan is still unlimited.... you are just used to how other cell providers do business.
 
The difference between a 21GB soft cap and a regular cap is that pretty much the instant you go over a hard cap, you're throttled to 128Kbits; at least, that's what I've experienced. It sounds like going over the 21GB soft cap will only affect you on a congested network, and only to the degree necessary to contribute to decongesting the network.
 
The difference between a 21GB soft cap and a regular cap is that pretty much the instant you go over a hard cap, you're throttled to 128Kbits; at least, that's what I've experienced. It sounds like going over the 21GB soft cap will only affect you on a congested network, and only to the degree necessary to contribute to decongesting the network.

I guess that should go into the fine print then. "You will get your unlimited data as long as we see fit". In that case T-mobile can also avoid adding additional tower and just starts to throttle people. Sounds like a money saving plan for me.
 
They sell TV content through T-Mobile TV. Not sure why you'd really want to get those types of things through a carrier.
I Had no idea they did that already, but they better have good content to sell also.
Because I figured 10 streaming services or 10 distributing platforms is never a good sign, but the more content we have..the more better for us
 
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Interesting Experiment:

Using TetherMe on a 6+ and my computer using the phones data connection, I downloaded 6 1.5GB HD TV shows from iTunes to my computer. That data did not count towards my data usage for the month.

Downloading one of those episodes in iTunes on my Phone to my phone, the data did get counted towards my data for the month.

I am at 68GB for the month and no sign of being throttled at any time.
 
What I never understood about throttling is ...

Why throttle users at almost unuseable speeds? When I was on AT&T and they throttled me after 5gb, even 3G speeds were faster, and sometimes even Edge speeds. I wouldn't mind if they throttle me down to 3mbps, but less than 1mbps is unexcusable unless they catch you tethering illegally.

At least T-mobile set a high limit which I rarely pass. As far as congestion goes, I live in NY, so that's always a given.
 
I use the crap out of my unlimited plan including tether. With a couple days left im at 12GB. If not for tether would be like 9GB.

Can't imagine using much more than I do.
 
I use the crap out of my unlimited plan including tether. With a couple days left im at 12GB. If not for tether would be like 9GB.

Can't imagine using much more than I do.
I find it's easy to go over 21GB each month and always do just by doing my every day normal things on my iPhone. I'm now at 70GB on this final day of my billing cycle. No sign of being throttled.
 
I find it's easy to go over 21GB each month and always do just by doing my every day normal things on my iPhone. I'm now at 70GB on this final day of my billing cycle. No sign of being throttled.
What exactly are these "everyday normal things" on the iPhone? The vast majority don't even come close to even half of 21 GB, let alone 70 GB doing "everyday normal things".
 
What exactly are these "everyday normal things" on the iPhone? The vast majority don't even come close to even half of 21 GB, let alone 70 GB doing "everyday normal things".
I said I go over 21GB each month. That doesn't mean I hit 70GB each month.

This month, I was trying to get throttled but couldn't. Seems that when I tether from my phone to my Mac and try to download 1.5GB episodes of TV shows, T-Mobile does not count that against my data.

Last month, I used 29GB. iTunes Match uses data and so does internet. The school I work at does not allow streaming over their WiFi so I have to use data for this.
 
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