kildraik
macrumors 6502a
Geez. You're being attacked.
I'm with you. There should be intelligent data throttling for parents. Silicon Valley billionaires send their kids to schools that don't use anything but books and a chalkboard for a reason.
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T-Mobile Subscribers Can Now Use 50GB of Data Before Facing De-Prioritization
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I'm with you. There should be intelligent data throttling for parents. Silicon Valley billionaires send their kids to schools that don't use anything but books and a chalkboard for a reason.
I don't see it as an problem IF carriers increase this threshold as file sizes/streaming quality keep becoming larger and it becomes easier for the majority of users to hit it.
Avieshek
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And the entire India with Parker fountain-pens. Quite classy though.
bigjnyc
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2gb nowadays goes pretty fast with video streaming and rich content online. Why don’t you instead try setting a time limit on the device itself but upping the data?
Smith288
macrumors 65816
My kids are always near WiFi. They need to learn that just because there’s some latency with it, turning off WiFi will cost you. My guess also is the 15 yr old thinks Instagram is too important not to check during school and the schools WiFi blocks it. So she turns off the WiFi. That’s her problem. Not mine.
Teaching about priorities is a parents job. Call me cheap, I don’t give a ****.
bigjnyc
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Lol relax I wasn’t calling you cheap, just trying to suggest an alternative to avoid throttling frustration. But if you have a 15 year old who has the phone on them all day that won’t work... I assumed younger kids my bad
I agree 100%...you're post reads like a completely different issue, though. Hence, some of the sarcastic responses.
My 14 yo daughter spends quite a bit of time on her smartphone (music, texting, YouTube), but manages straight "A"'s, is socially active, has many REAL friends, and reads REAL books like there's no tomorrow. IT IS POSSIBLE!! We give her a pass on smartphone use as long as she maintains good grades and gets her chores done. It's the generation...the "iGen". I understand it. The only thing we disallow is a social media account. She just got a Facebook account, but it's just for Speech/Debate (the class requires it) and her Mom is also on it, so she knows it's just for school use.
I got tired of watching our pool of data to make sure she wasn't using too much, so I wound up moving her to an unlimited TM account (piggy-backing with a friend so it only costs us $4/mo as a free 4th line!). We're both happy as I spend less time monitoring data, and spend less money, and she gets "free" YouTube. Everyone is happy!
How about including wearables in with the customer's data at no extra charge!? THAT would really add value to being a T-Mobile customer.
Strelok
macrumors 65816
Verizon basically made every account unlimited a while ago when they added the ability to be reduced to 2G/EDGE after using up your regular data. It’s probably not very useable, but at least overages are gone. T-Mobile isn’t even that much cheaper at the end of the day, they just give you more high speed data. I’m ok with 14GB+ every month though. I would rather have less data and be on Verizon.
Smith288
macrumors 65816
I didnt mean for the "call me cheap..." to sound combative. Meant more of a humorous tone that doesnt read well over text. Anyways, T-Mobile lacks parental controls generally. They dont offer much in the way of "cut off data" without removing data from their device which strikes me as odd. I should be able to say "only allow messages/text" for times where a parent can enforce groundings while still having a line of communication using the service. *shrug*
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Yeah, it's a different issue but sort of the same regarding the throttling... Just thought I'd piggyback on the story with my own annoyances. I don't care if people attack me for my thoughts. Im guessing most here don't have the luxury of having 4 kids ranging from 3 to 17 and having to find a financially appropriate balance for mobile data usage. lol
M.PaulCezanne
macrumors 6502a
But zero to upgrade iOS or stream directly to ATV4K. What gives with those stupid limitations!?! I want to dump Comcast!!!
Somebody please tell me I'm missing something here...
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Somebody please tell me I'm missing something here...
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Not sure why you wait, TMobile was and probably still is buying people out of their contracts.
All the data in the world won't make up for the fact that their building penetration in the DC area still sucks. Personally, I want to drop AT&T for T-Mobile, but can't until I get actually get a reliable signal where I'll have my phone.
M.PaulCezanne
macrumors 6502a
AMEN!!! Here in the swamp with you. Outside = faster than my wifi. On the other side of a paper thin window = nothing.
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I thought it was just because they are better than us.
Smith288
macrumors 65816
BJMRamage
macrumors 68030
this sounds great! Makes me want to investigate T-Mobile again from our current ATT coverage. We'd save about $10-30/month but unsure of coverage...also planning a National Park vacation in a year or two and wondering how T-Mobile would compare to ATT in the CO/Yellowstone/SD areas.
BTW...el cheapo here...My wife and I SHARE 6GB data per month! We are around 5Gb now with 4 days left. no need to constantly stream videos/don't subscribe to any Music service or anything.
BTW...el cheapo here...My wife and I SHARE 6GB data per month! We are around 5Gb now with 4 days left. no need to constantly stream videos/don't subscribe to any Music service or anything.
shareef777
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This is why I love T-Mobile. Though I'm still baffled by their $10 per month Apple Watch charge. Seems obscene in the light of all other efforts they have.
MrXiro
macrumors 68040
I think that since this is a newer area of device that uses data that they haven't put that much thought into it.
I mean look at how every other carrier has it structured. It's exactly the same. They probably figure that this isn't a feature that many people will jump on (in comparison to people buying Tablet and phone plans) and they're just going with the market standard that Apple may or may not have suggested.
Hopefully this is a growing product (LTE connected wearables) and eventually we will see some better deals for service. Until then I'm debating upgrading from my Series 0 to the Series 3 GPS only watch. The price has finally come down to be somewhat reasonable now, especially if I can find an open item or refurbished one.
