T-Mobile Will Skip Overage Charges, Throttle Data

It service area sucks in NYC, LA, and in Florida. All places I have lived and tried the terrible service. I moved to prepaid.

I don't agree with you. Service in NYC is good through my experience.
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This throtling is on aircards... Not phones... Unless I read it wrong.

Phones (atleast on the other guys) are unlimited, while aircArds have 5g and overages.

WernerCD said:
This throtling is on aircards... Not phones... Unless I read it wrong.

Phones (atleast on the other guys) are unlimited, while aircArds have 5g and overages.

I think you read it correctly, too...smartphones will simply charge per MB once you've reached your allotment.

They don't on everyone else... sprint vzw AT&T... Phones don't, aircards do.

WernerCD said:
They don't on everyone else... sprint vzw AT&T... Phones don't, aircards do.

They don't now. But it's coming. And fast. Or haven't you noticed the havoc being wreaked by unlimited iPhone plans on AT&T's network?

I don't see it happening...

First there would be backlash. Fear. Customers scared of going over their limits. Slowdown of innovation and cool new stuff (like Hulu on smart phones.... VOIP Video Conference calls... etc...)

Second would be competitors. Like say... Spring with unlimited 4G on their AirCards.

AT&T and Verizon talking about it will only go as far as #3 and #4 doing something different and gaining market share.

That's what I hope at least... I mean... what good is Cable/DSL/FIOS ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM!!! speeds with caps? It's counter productive.

AT&T can piss and moan all they want about iPhone usage... but they are still raking in money hand over foot.

I *HOPE* they don't destroy the innovation that's happening. Becaus...
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They're not strictly enforced, but if you go over it month after month they will either throttle you or cut you off completely.

The caps are HUGE though. See, there is no issue with someone using hulu, or youtube, or playing farmville or some game online.. the problem is that a very small % (10 or less) of the users consume over 60% of the companies bandwidth each month, artificially increasing the cost of the internet for EVERYONE so the company can subsidize their usage.

If unlimited data remains on smartphones, it will be the same way. you'll have 10% of the people using most of the available bandwidth, and so in order to keep unlimited truly unlimited, you'll need to continue jacking up the cost for everyone.

WernerCD said:
I don't see it happening...

First there would be backlash. Fear. Customers scared of going over their limits. Slowdown of innovation and cool new stuff (like Hulu on smart phones.... VOIP Video Conference calls... etc...)

Second would be competitors. Like say... Spring with unlimited 4G on their AirCards.

AT&T and Verizon talking about it will only go as far as #3 and #4 doing something different and gaining market share.

That's what I hope at least... I mean... what good is Cable/DSL/FIOS ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM!!! speeds with caps? It's counter productive.

AT&T can piss and moan all they want about iPhone usage... but they are still raking in money hand over foot.

I *HOPE* they don't destroy the

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They don't now. But it's coming. And fast. Or haven't you noticed the havoc being wreaked by unlimited iPhone plans on AT&T's network?

Nope. Verizon and Sprint both did twice as much data on their networks in 2009, the "well if the other guys had the iPhone they'd cry too" stuff is sunk. Especially as WiMAX and LTE roll out nationally you'll see this throttling / teired pricing form Verizon and AT&T while Sprint will go on its merry way thanks to all the spectrum they bought up.