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T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data

VentureBeat reports that T-Mobile CEO John Legere has announced that T-Mobile will cut off (at least from "unlimited" data plans) customers who gloss over the fine print of their data-use agreement by tethering their unlimited-data phones and grab too much of the network's resources. In a series of tweets on Sunday, Legere says the company will be "eliminating anyone who abuses our network," and complains that some "network abusers" are using 2TB of data monthly. The article says, "This is the first official word from the carrier that seems to confirm a memo that was leaked earlier this month. At that time, it was said action would be taken starting August 17 and would go after those who used their unlimited LTE data for Torrents and peer-to-peer networking."

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  1. You keep using that word. I don't think it means by billstewart · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... what you think it means.

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  2. Well by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    if "inflammable" and "flammable" mean the same thing then why not "limited" and "unlimited"?

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