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T-Mobile to Offer Free Data for Pokémon Go Starting Next Tuesday

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As part of its T-Mobile Tuesday offerings, T-Mobile plans to offer its customers free data for hit augmented reality game Pokémon Go. Starting on July 19, T-Mobile subscribers will be able to play Pokémon Go without using up their monthly data.

T-Mobile plans to provide free unlimited high-speed data for Pokémon Go for all subscribers through August 17, 2017. Customers will need to redeem the gift in the T-Mobile Tuesdays app between July 19 and August 9, 2016.

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Ready to catch them all!? #TMobileTuesdays is giving you unlimited data use for #PokémonGo! https://t.co/NrFAxW3KYq pic.twitter.com/pPXxezGV0r - John Legere (@JohnLegere) July 14, 2016
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Next Tuesday's T-Mobile Tuesday offering, which is Pokémon themed, will also include free Lyft rides up to $15, a free Wendy's frosty, and up to 50 percent off all accessories at T-Mobile stores. 250 T-Mobile subscribers will win $100 in PokéCoins to spend in the app and five people will win a Pokémon Go hunting trip anywhere in the United States.
"This is what T-Mobile Tuesday is all about - thanking customers with hot, new, totally free gifts every week, and right now, nothing is hotter than Pokémon Go!" said John Legere, president and CEO of T-Mobile. "With the carriers' shared data schemes, players could easily burn up the family's data bucket - and then, hello, overages! At T-Mobile, we're unleashing Pokémon Go so our customers can play free for a year. It's gonna be a fantastic T-Mobile Tuesday!"
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T-Mobile first unveiled T-Mobile Tuesdays last month, marking the debut of its eleventh Uncarrier promotion. T-Mobile Tuesdays brings customers a variety of weekly freebies, from food and movie tickets to ride-sharing credits.

Article Link: T-Mobile to Offer Free Data for Pokémon Go Starting Next Tuesday
 
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lol it only used about 32 mb in the last 4 days on my device

also can we talk about their horrible servers??? been at the park for the last two hours and no ones game is working properly. there were like 60 people that kept on closing the damn app cuz it kept on freezing every time you caught a Pokemon
 
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They keep doing all these really cool things... except making their network better. At the end of the day, the gimmicks don't help improve coverage. Or get the service to work indoors. Yes, this is just my experience in my area. YMMV.
 
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jcmeyer5 said:
They keep doing all these really cool things... except making their network better. At the end of the day, the gimmicks don't help improve coverage. Or get the service to work indoors. Yes, this is just my experience in my area. YMMV.
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Yes, it does by getting additional people and sponsors to give them money. It's quite a smart idea.
 
This promotion has no point when T-Mobile servers are horrendous. I have a 20% chance of catching Pokemon and beating Gyms before the game freezes on me.
 
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pgiguere1 said:
Pokémon Go isn't really a data hog. Battery hog, sure, but data consumption is fine. I'm level 13 and have used 66 MB of data so far.

My real issue with this promotion however is that it goes against net neutrality.
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DataHog and BatteryHog sound like Pokémon themselves! Agree with you on the net neutrality thing.
 
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As part of its T-Mobile Tuesday offerings, T-Mobile plans to offer its customers free data for hit augmented reality game Pokémon Go. Starting on July 19, T-Mobile subscribers will be able to play Pokémon Go, which is something of a data hog, without using up their monthly data.
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It is most certainly not a data hog. In 8 days I've used 102MB. And that's with it running it 5+ hours a day and with it not being connected to WiFi at all.
 
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I'm a T-Mobile customer already and have unlimited data but I'll be entering for that $100 in Pokécoins!
 
Relentless Power said:
All these Pokémon rumors really cheapens this website. Honestly, can I read something else besides Pokémon? And I thought Apple Watch bands were the primary focus.
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Sure, you don't have to read them at all. I hear there are couple of other sites on this World Wide Web.
 
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boto said:
This promotion has no point when T-Mobile servers are horrendous. I have a 20% chance of catching Pokemon and beating Gyms before the game freezes on me.
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It's not T-Mobile. It's the app.

T-Mobile almost exclusively uses IPv6 for mobile data -- in the case of iOS, the APN for T-Mobile is configured to prefer IPv6 ONLY networking, and use a 6to4 tunnel when IPv4 is needed. This combined with the fact Apple requires App Store apps to support IPv6 means that Pokémon Go is using IPv6 -- which Niantic has done a horrible job of implementing.

Pokémon Go handles IPv6 like crap. Verizon customers are having issues too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/4skqvw/psa_pokémon_go_doesnt_play_nice_with_ipv6_switch/
 
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Well, I will eat some crow for all the crap I've given T-Mo for the past few years.

I went out and got a T-Mo SIM and put it in my iPad 3 (which is only capable of getting HSPA+ on T-Mo) and I was pleasantly surprised. It's actually registering 3 to 5 "dots" of T-Mo "4G" signal in my home and it's got decent throughput for an HSPA+ connection. I also just purchased an iPad Pro 9.7 with the embedded Apple SIM and signed up for T-Mo on that device and am getting 3 to 5 "dots" of LTE in my home.

I know the dots don't tell the whole story, but by comparison, I get 1 to 2 dots of LTE on both Verizon on AT&T in my home in Metro Atlanta. So, for all the crap I've given you, T-Mo, I will eat some crow now and I will test your service on an upcoming 1,400 mile roadtrip to see how you fair.

For my use around here, though, I will definitely be taking advantage of the 200 MB of free high-speed data per month for life on both of my iPads. Smart move on T-Mo's part, I must say, since they know if you need more high-speed data, you'll come to them first since they already got you hooked with the small freebie.
 
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Porco said:
DataHog and BatteryHog sound like Pokémon themselves! Agree with you on the net neutrality thing.
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Well, Gen VIII (or whatever the next gen is now, don't remember) Pokémon :p
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Steve.P.JobsFan said:
It's not T-Mobile. It's the app.

T-Mobile almost exclusively uses IPv6 for mobile data -- in the case of iOS, the APN for T-Mobile is configured to prefer IPv6 ONLY networking, and use a 6to4 tunnel when IPv4 is needed. This combined with the fact Apple requires App Store apps to support IPv6 means that Pokémon Go is using IPv6 -- which Niantic has done a horrible job of implementing.

Pokémon Go handles IPv6 like crap. Verizon customers are having issues too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/4skqvw/psa_pokémon_go_doesnt_play_nice_with_ipv6_switch/
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Call me selfish, but I always disable IPv6 everywhere I can. Doesn't provide any noticeable benefit and potentially causes problems. Not worth whatever minuscule improvement in efficiency there is until everyone really supports it.

I've had serious issues with Comcast's IPv6 service. Until I disabled IPv6 on my computer, Google and Facebook took 5 minutes to load sometimes.
 
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jcmeyer5 said:
They keep doing all these really cool things... except making their network better.
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That's not true. They've bought a significant chunk of 700A (Band 12) license in the continental US. It takes time to deploy, though, and the FCC isn't speedy at approving paperwork.

What state are you in?

You can always check http://maps.spectrumgateway.com/t-mobile-700-mhz-spectrum.html to see what the status of 700 MHz (the low-band airwaves used by VZ and ATT that give excellent coverage in rural areas and outdoors) is.
 
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