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T-Mobile Unveils Doubled Data Plans, Free Video Streaming at Un-Carrier X Event

I appreciate the point on net neutrality, but on the limited reading (just the info here at macrumors), it seems like they would allow any video provider to fall in the category, if the provider meets their encoding requirements.

They aren't picking winners and losers. Just saying if your video falls within our encoding requirements we'll stream it for free to our customers.

CEmajr said:
Sounds good but this raises serious questions about net neutrality. Also wonder what type of effect this will have on network congestion.
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JackieInCo said:
Every carrier will have areas like that. I can only get edge on Verizon and AT&T at my house. Only T-Mobile can get me 60Mbps LTE here.
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JackieInCo said:
Every carrier will have areas like that. I can only get edge on Verizon and AT&T at my house. Only T-Mobile can get me 60Mbps LTE here.
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Good for you, but for me, it doesn't work. Most of the day I am driving in NJ and on Long Island; it sucks.
 
Holy moly is this correct? I just read in their press release in the tethering blurb:

"And with Binge On, streaming video from participating services won’t eat into that tethered data."

Wow that can't be right.... they won't count video through tethering towards tethered data????
 
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So at what point is T-Mobile paying you to sign up with them? And what happened to net neutrality?
 
B.A.T said:
A year ago I got an iPhone 5s for a test drive. The speeds were great in my area and coverage in my office building was great. I signed on and then in April brought the wife and two kids over when their Sprint contract ended. My wife joked that T-Mobile was the Walmart of cell companies. Service for all four of us has been great. Now I kid her about the Walmart reference and she tries to deny it.
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Well, maybe she would love to hear how T-mobile charged my credit card ($699) for not returning the iPhone, which I did. And also that they sent me the email 3 days after I cancelled my credit card for the unauthorized, suspicious charge.
 
preludeoflight said:
There's no increase in price, yet. But I've been burnt by wireless providers plenty of times to not trust them. (I sure hope T-Mo will be different.) My problem is with them prioritizing *any* data over others. Now they have control over the services you use. They support Netflix. What if I wanted Amazon Prime Video, but amazon was unwilling to 'partner' with them? Too bad for us, because it's not part of their plan. I'm not a fan of giving some data a free ride and other none.
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Then don't sign up with T-mobile... So you're entire theory is based on the possibility that they MIGHT raise the price on you... I thought pre-cogs were outlawed in Minority Report. :rolleyes:

For the rest of us who HAVE T-mobile... This is awesome.
 
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sweet, i might think about relinquishing my unlimite data plan thats grandfathered at 20 bucks right now for the free 1gb because most of my data goes to those apps listed and sometime youtube.
 
acgmph said:
Binge On is included in Prepaid plans, see attachment from TMos website
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Is Binge the "Unlimited Data" for Video or the compression format that uses less data? Are they one and the same? Cause it could be that Binge just gives you the better compression algorithm for the videos but you're still metered... I don't know this for a fact... but based on what they've previously done they aren't this generous to Pre-Paid users.
 
AbSoluTc said:
In every thread, whenever T-Mobile does something like this, there are people that post stuff like this. Good luck!



What people fail to realize is, THEY HAVE to do stuff like this to get customers. T-Mobile service is terrible anywhere that matters, for the most part. I doubt T-Mobil will ever have a network that could go head to head with the big 2.



They're watching T-Mobile and laughing because of what they have to do in order to get more customers. Verizon and AT&T have nothing to worry about and won't change anything because of this. It sucks but that's how it works when your one of the two largest, best networks in the US.
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I switched from VZW. Haven't looked back. Saving over $160/month for 7 lines and with band 12 and an iphone 6s, and live in a major city in Texas, I haven't had one problem with service. Best choice I've ever made.


AbSoluTc said:
In every thread, whenever T-Mobile does something like this, there are people that post stuff like this. Good luck!



What people fail to realize is, THEY HAVE to do stuff like this to get customers. T-Mobile service is terrible anywhere that matters, for the most part. I doubt T-Mobil will ever have a network that could go head to head with the big 2.



They're watching T-Mobile and laughing because of what they have to do in order to get more customers. Verizon and AT&T have nothing to worry about and won't change anything because of this. It sucks but that's how it works when your one of the two largest, best networks in the US.
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Just figured out that it's 480p streaming, and that enabling the Binge capability downgrades the video. I'm unlimited anyway, so not that useful for me. However, unlimited hotspot streaming is very nice, especially for the kids (traveling or just riding in the car). Hopefully, this will be pretty easy to toggle on and off. Stoked anyhow! Love the crazy stuff that T-Mobile is doing. I would not want to be in some of the AT&T and Verizon war rooms, scrambling to respond... LOL

But overall, it's time the carrier industry changed. They've been acting like a corrupt cabal for tool long.
 
So you all realize that T-Mobile basically has to 'spy on you' to know when you are watching a streaming video to trigger that data to be free.

And everyone here is OK with their privacy being completely invaded by T-Mobile???????
 
Chatter said:
FYI - I am in NNJ as well and drive around all over this area (JC/Hoboken/Paramus/Montclair/Edgewater/Newark etc) and always am on LTE.
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I live in Maywood, right between Hackensack and Paramus. I commute to NYC every day so far no issues with AT&T but I have an eye on T-Mobile and have been thinking about it for the past few weeks. I dont think I'll make the move but definitely tempted
 
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