In the 10 years I had my rollover mins with att I doubt I used mine ..maybe 5 times? Maybe t mobile hoping for its cust to do the same?
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T-Mobile Unveils New 'Data Stash' Program That Allows Unused Data to Roll Over Each Month
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In the 10 years I had my rollover mins with att I doubt I used mine ..maybe 5 times? Maybe t mobile hoping for its cust to do the same?
How does being owned by Deutsche Telekom (who has tried to dump them, first onto AT&T, and then to Sprint, both unsuccessfully) make them more attractive to you? T-Mobile is the reason why HSPA+ is considered "4G" in the US. DT lobbied the ITU to water down the standard.
Verizon and AT&T are definitely feeling some pinch from Sprint and T-Mobile's price wars, mostly in the form of higher churn and increased price pressure, but they are significantly larger, and in Verizon's case in particular have better established networks. Also, T-Mobile is still in a fairly precarious position as they have a parent who wants to sell them, and a shrinking pool of potential buyers. Mobile is a capital-intensive business, and until DT decides for sure what they are going to do with T-Mobile long term that will put them at a disadvantage.
What it seems to me that T-Mobile is trying to do is build up its postpaid subscriber count up to a point where they become attractive to a company like Dish or Comcast who has the capital, can supply the backhaul, and would be more able to compete directly with Verizon and AT&T.
Wow. I just had some serious flashbacks. T-Mobile also acquired Omnipoint around that time.
Anyone remember the debate about calling party pays? Probably not, unless you worked in wireless. It never became a mainstream consumer topic.
I suspect that the iPhone 6s, iPad Air 3, and iPad Mini 4 (if there is one) will support Band 12. It just didn't make sense to make a special version yet since T-Mobile and US Cellular are the only carriers with significant Band 12 spectrum, neither have significant buildouts yet, and there are technical difficulties in getting Band 12 and Band 17 working in the same device (as the frequencies overlap).
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It's 12 months to stash, and the 5GB tethering allowance does not roll over. It's on their website.
Yep, T-Mobile service sucks. Which is shy I still have ATT. I did the T-Mobile test drive when they first started doing it and quickly realized I'd be sticking with ATT for the foreseeable future.
Sounds like a great plan! I currently have 10GB/month shared among 4 lines (on Verizon, of course) and only use about 6GB of that. Having a ~4GB "reserve" would be great, incase the Concrap internet at home went down for a day or so, or if I needed to be on the road for a week or so.
They're still waiting for the broadcast spectrum auction in early 2015, which should make the most economic sense when it comes to upgrading existing sites. It doesn't seem like putting up new ones is a big priority of theirs yet (especially up north). If you're getting no service [at all] now, only low-band frequencies will help you, which will require new devices.
The one thing I notice on their website it doesn't mention how many gb your stash can hold. It would be interesting to know if your stash data is throttled or not.
My guess would be that there's no limit. The most you'd get to save on the 3GB plan is 36GB (5GB plan would get 60GB) anyway. And then it all resets after a year.
Fantastic news. I can only hope AT&T (and Verizon) implement similar practices soon. This guy is really making big changes.
The thing that worries me with stuff like this is that their network has limited bandwidth. Some people (me, for example) would prefer to have 1 GB of data per month that is super fast than unlimited (or 10 GB or whatever) that allows bandwidth hogs to slow down the network for everyone.
Put another way, I'd rather always be able to access limited amounts of fast data than have to drop down to EDGE or whatever because the network is too congested. I'm not saying that's going to happen, but it is a risk. In fact, that started happening with Verizon, which is a large part of the reason I switched to T-Mobile in the first place.
Put another way, I'd rather always be able to access limited amounts of fast data than have to drop down to EDGE or whatever because the network is too congested. I'm not saying that's going to happen, but it is a risk. In fact, that started happening with Verizon, which is a large part of the reason I switched to T-Mobile in the first place.
Should be unlimited, however you can only hold the data stash for 12 months. It resets every year.
This is awesome! T-Mobile is really beginning to push the US Wireless industry in the right direction. I really wish this would happen in the home ISP space as well, hopefully it will soon.
If you aren't using up the full 1GB on your 1GB plan, you need to be using your phone more
Bandwidth hogs (of which I'm occasionally a part of) don't bog down the network for everyone, but rather everyone on their particular cell site.
T-Mobile has a long way to go until they get congested (not including massively-populated spots, like NYC (Times Square) and such).
Wait - do they not do this anymore? I upgraded to the 6+, from the iPhone 4 a few weeks ago (this 6+ is a great phone, it makes my iPhone 4 look like a toy) and I looked into the new pricing schemes from ATT. It makes no sense to get of these legacy plans. It seems like eventually they will just force us off the plans.
I pay $89 bucks for 450 rollover minutes, unlimited text and data. I think I have like 4,000 minutes and this month I am at like 9 gigs of data. I travel a lot for work so I listen to podcasts and streaming music and I have never experienced any throttling of the data. I guess it is jerks like me that ruins it for everyone
I bet they will. At worst, they'll make rollover data an extra add on and the data will cost more per month if you want it to rollover than it would if you didn't want it to rollover.
Example: 2 GB per month is $40 if you don't want rollover, $45 if you do want rollover. That's how Verizon and AT&T could make it work so that they'll get more money out of the deal while giving customers what they want.
It is not throttled, since as it is right now, once you go over your allotment, you don't get charged extra, you just get throttled. The rollover data lasts for 12 months, similar to how AT&T's rollover minutes plan worked.
