T-Mobile To Throttle Customers Who Use Unlimited LTE Data For Torrents/P2P

New submitter User0x45 writes: Here's a nicely transparent announcement: "T-mobile has identified customers who are heavy data users and are engaged in peer-to-peer file sharing, and tethering outside of T-Mobile’s Terms and Conditions (T&C). This results in a negative data network experience for T-Mobile customers. Beginning August 17, T-Mobile will begin to address customers who are conducting activities outside of T-Mobile’s T&Cs." Obviously, it's not a good announcement for people with unlimited plans, but at least it's clear. T-mobile also pulled the backwards anti-net neutrality thing by happily announcing 'Free Streaming' from select music providers... which is, in effect, making non-select usage fee-based.

Comments

Re:This is going to end so well for them!

[AvitarX]

There is no unlimited tethering, and they aren't throttling capped data.

They are throttling phone based P2P, and (as I read it) separately, unauthorized tethering.

WoW distribution, needing to be tethered, would be capped data and not throttled.

It's people like me that have downloaded movies on the go to watch that would be throttled.