T-Mobile Brings Back Unlimited Data For All (cnet.com)

An anonymous reader shares a CNET report: T-Mobile is eliminating data plans for new customers -- and for current ones who opt in. The company is getting rid of all its wireless data plans and instead offering new customers one unlimited plan, T-Mobile said Thursday. Under the new plan, everyone will get unlimited talk, text and high-speed 4G LTE data. The company has also changed prices for unlimited. The first line will be $70 a month, the second line will cost $50 a month and additional lines will be $20 a month for up to eight lines with auto-pay turned on. The price is $5 more a month without auto-pay. For a family of four, the new plans will cost $40 a month per person. While this plan will benefit those looking for unlimited, it will cost more for people who have been subscribed to the lowest data plans. The current plan starts at $50 for 2GB of data per month. This means individual customers on its new plans will pay $20 more a month. But the new price is lower than the cost of unlimited right now. Today, T-Mobile customers who want unlimited pay $95 a month for an individual line.
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Comments

What about so-called "data hogs"?

[Anonymous Coward]

Last time we had unlimited data plans, there were people who would tether hundreds of gigabytes a month (maybe using their cellular connection as a primary internet connection with wifi tethering). I hope "unlimited" this time does not have an asterisk.

Re:What about so-called "data hogs"?

[Anonymous Coward]

Too late, it already states in the fine print that once you pass 26gb you get "de-prioritized" AKA throttled.

Granted, 26gb is pretty generous unless you're in the habit of streaming netflix on the go for 5 hours at a time (which T-Mobile already stated doesn't count against your data usage), but yeah, it means there's still something to reign in the data hogs. No longer will we see unlimited 3G usage through tethered Kindles.

Re:Meh

[pushing-robot]

Why is that so strange? If you have wifi at home and work and drive in between, and your social life involves actually spending time with friends instead of everyone sitting around using their phones, 2GB goes a long way.

Re:Use T-mobile at your own risk

[swb]

I think the lesson is don't think you can cut cute deals with big corporations where the "deal" isn't in a written contract signed by someone with officer-level signatory approval and backed by a surety bond.

The flunky who "agrees" to your terms just checking checkboxes in CRM that sign you up for whatever "deals" are in their system that day. When you finally discover your deal isn't in place (days, weeks, months, years) later, it won't really matter. They'll call you a liar, will claim the deal never existed and toss your debt to a collections agent.

You have more negotiating power caught with a pound of reefer by a dishonest cop on an abandoned stretch of highway at midnight than you do with a consumer-facing corporation.

Re:Is it real unlimited?

[squiggleslash]

No he hasn't, that's what the fine print said.

T-Mobile's existing plans are not advertised as "Unlimited". Former plans advertised as "Unlimited" do, indeed, work exactly the way described by the GP. T-Mobile's current 3G, 6G, etc plans work the way you're describing, but aren't described as "Unlimited".