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T-Mobile Raises Deprioritization Threshold To 30GB (tmonews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TmoNews: T-Mobile's new deprioritization threshold is 30GB of usage in a single billing cycle. While T-Mo didn't make an official announcement about the change, you can see in this cached page that the network management policy says 28GB: "Based on network statistics for the most recent quarter, customers who use more than 28GB of data during a billing cycle will have their data usage prioritized below other customers' data usage for the remainder of the billing cycle in times and at locations where there are competing customer demands for network resources." Navigating to the webpage today now says 30GB. What this change means is that if you use more than 30GB of data in one billing cycle, your data usage will be prioritized below others for the remainder of that billing cycle. The only time that you're likely to see the effects of that, though, is when you're at a location on the network that is congested, during which time you may see slower speeds. Once you move to a different location or the congestion goes down, your speeds will likely go back up. And once the new billing cycle rolls around, your usage will be reset.
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"Rape is an expression of ... male supremacy ... the age-old economic, political and cultural exploitation of women by men."
Does this sound like a modern radical feminist? Guess again. It is from a 1948 American Communist Party pamphlet entitled "Woman Against Myth" by Mary Inman.
In a recent book, Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation, (2002) feminist historian Kate Weigand states: "ideas, activists and traditions that emanated from the Communist movement of the forties and fifties continued to shape the direction of the new women's movement of the 1960s and later."(154)
In fact, Weigand, a lecturer at Smith College, shows that modern feminism is a direct outgrowth of American Communism. There is nothing that feminists said or did in the 1960's-1980's that wasn't prefigured in the CPUSA of the 1940's and 1950's. Many second-wave feminist leaders were "red diaper babies," the children of Communists.
Communists pioneered the political and cultural analysis of woman's oppression. They originated women's studies, and advocated public daycare, birth control, abortion and even children's rights. They forged key feminist concepts such as "the personal is the political" and techniques such as "consciousness raising."
In the late 1940's, CPUSA leaders realized that the labor movement was becoming increasingly hostile to Communism. They began to focus on women and African Americans. They hoped "male supremacy" would "bring more women into the organization and into the fight against the domestic policies of the Cold War." (80)
Communist women who made up 40% of the party wanted more freedom to attend party meetings. After the publication of "Women Against Myth" in 1948, the CPUSA initiated a process of "re-educating" men that we recognize only too well today.
For example, in the party newspaper "The Daily Worker" a photo caption of a man with a young child read, "Families are stronger and happier if the father knows how to fix the cereal, tie the bibs and take care of the youngsters." (127)
The Party ordered men who didn't take the woman question seriously to complete "control tasks involving study on the woman question." In 1954 the Los Angeles branch disciplined men for "hogging discussion at club meetings, bypassing women comrades in leadership and making sex jokes degrading to women." (94)
A film Salt of the Earth, which critic Pauline Kael called "Communist propaganda", portrayed women taking a decisive role in their husbands' labor strike. "Against her husband's wishes, Esperanza became a leader in the strike and for the first time forged a role for herself outside of her household... [her] political successes persuaded Ramon to accept a new model of family life." (132) Portrayals of strong assertive successful women became as common in the Communist press and schools, as they are in the mass media today.
Communist women formalized a sophisticated Marxist analysis of the "woman question." The books In Women's Defense (1940) by Mary Inman, Century of Struggle (1954) by Eleanor Flexner and The Unfinished Revolution (1962) by Eve Merriam recorded women's oppression and decried sexism in mass culture and language. For example, Mary Inman argued that "manufactured femininity" and "overemphasis on beauty" keeps women in subjection (33).
The founder of modern feminism, Betty Frieden relied on these texts when she wrote The Feminine Mystique (1963). These women all hid the fact that they were long-time Communist activists. In the 1960, their daughters had everything they needed, including the example of subterfuge, to start the Women's Liberation Movement.
Feminism's roots in Marxist Communism explain a great deal about this curious but dangerous movement. It explains:
this sells feminism to me pretty well
March, 2017: Still falling for the 'smartphone' meme. Seriously are you people dumb?
* Getting price-gouged for so-called 'dataplans'
* Totally insecure smartphone OS
* Totally insecure smartphone browsers
* Criminals and government agencies hacking into your smartphone at will, sucking up your data, surveilling your life
* 'Apps' that not only waste your time, but violate your privacy
* Wasting your time and energy on so-called 'social media' (which is neither 'social' nor proper 'media' in the first place)
When are you people going to WAKE THE HELL UP and just throw the goddamned thing in the e-waste bin and say 'enough'? Get a cheap dumbphone, don't pay for 'dataplans', and simplify your life! Reduce your stress! Say 'goodbye' to retarded 'social media' and it's useless pointless drama! Get back to the basics of life -- you'll enjoy your life MORE if you do!
ONLY apps can app apps, NOT LUDDITE dumbphones!
It sounds like you're too stupid to use appy app apps like Appy App Saga and Appstragram, so you have to make up LUDDITE lies instead!
Apps!
/. had news that matters? More science and less corporate plugs please.
Limitless means "No Limits".
It does not mean, after you've used some arbitrary number that we select, we will limit you.
Slowing or deprioritizing packets is indeed *LIMITING*.
Super simple FTC actionable advertising by all companies that "limit" their "unlimited" plans.
Most plans lower you to 2G speeds well below that.
Your traffic might go from 25MB/s down to 22.8MB/s. They aren't blocking traffic, they aren't stopping your traffic. They are just making it so that others have a fair share. Compared to all the other operators, they are doing it right.
Limitless data does not mean limitless data to the detriment of other people.
Even if they slow you down, they're still not limiting the amount of data that you can download.
Don't ever come to Canada, where they charge you $5 per gig over your already expensive 1/2/5/10GB data plan.
#DeleteFacebook
Why not just prioritize all traffic by previous traffic used per billing cycle? So light users generally get top prioritization and heavy users get gradually lower prioritization but nobody has to pick a number where it suddenly switches form one category to another.
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Don't ever come to Canada, where they charge you $5 per gig over your already expensive 1/2/5/10GB data plan.
What's funny is - with T-Mobile, you roam for free on Rodgers (I think that's the network). Last year I headed up to Vancouver for a meeting - a minute or two after I crossed the border, I got a text telling me I had the same coverage in Canada as in the US - for free.
Maybe you should buy service from T-Mobile in the US and then head home...
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Limitless data does not mean limitless data to the detriment of other people.
It's to the detriment of others because they do not upgrade their infrastructure enough. It's their problem if they do not upgrade enough to get the bandwidth required to serve their unlimited customers.
You know as well as I do that whatever upgrades they do, users like you will use all of it and then complain again.
You still have unlimited data right now, upgraded infrastructures or not.
#DeleteFacebook
Just wish they had better coverage around me.
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
I totally misread the headline as a 30GB Deportation Threshold.
Of course there has to be a limit, there is only so much bandwidth available. But, they shouldn't fucking advertise it as limitless when there is actually a limit.
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beat me to it! LOL
GSM data is sent in 156-bit (18 byte) frames, which are then combined into superframes. So anyway the prioritization decision is made every few bytes - millions of times for one video. It needs to be fast, very fast, and a flag indicating "high" or "low" priority is fast - much much faster than computing and comparing a numerical score for each frame to see who is highest, then multiplying the reciprocal of that by time in queue.
Also, long before T-Mobile started prioritizing based on usage so far in month, network protocols and network equipment was built built with traffic classes, not traffic scores. T-Mobile is using pre-existing functionality. It's arguable which provides a "better" customer experience, so they might as well use the simple, efficient, pre-existing method.
They are just making it so that others have a fair share.
No. Wrong. They are making it so that others have more of a share than you. That is the very definition of unfair.
Fair Share means everyone get the same amount of bandwidth split evenly.
Let's say I use 30 gigs of data on a tower in the middle of nowhere at 3:00AM.
Then later today, I connect to a tower in the middle of a busy downtown area at 5:00PM.
My traffic will get throttled, while the rest of the people on that tower (under 30gig) won't. I didn't take anything away from them through my previous usage. I didn't make their connections slower.
This is pure PR. Nothing more.
So what then, would be your solution to alleviate a congested network?
You understand that there is a finite amount of spectrum which provides us with a finite amount of bandwidth and if everyone streamed HD youtube all day nobody would get any data at all? You understand that right?
bullshit. the limiting factor in cell networks is the wireless spectrum and you can't upgrade nature.
My Pay as you go $40/ month is still 2Gigs. Rising tide it ain't
GSM data is sent in 156-bit (18 byte) frames
LTE != GSM
I may not have all the facts, but I certainly have a clue. Something you don't realize when your world comes to consist of what is contained in a single article.
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They are just making it so that others have a fair share.
I didn't take anything away from them through my previous usage. I didn't make their connections slower.
This is pure PR. Nothing more.
Yah, I don't buy it. Sure the bits cost less for them at certain times, since more people using them at peak times mean expanding their network. That being said, they hand out a straightforward and no bs contract. That it isn't optimized for your particular use is just life. They choose not to make a plan with non peak usage quotas. Another can make a plan with separate non peak minutes. As long as they are not using their current business to somehow prevent the other guy from selling that plan, then they are fine.
The only thing I wand with t-mobile is better hotspot only plans. My mother uses one, since it is all she can get, even though she is not far from AT&T DSl. AT&T just hasn't built their network in a couple of decades. If you want to bitch about a provider then AT&T is fair game. They are evil.
T-mobiles 22GB hotspot only plan is $90. I think if they are giving 30GB to normal users they could ease up on those plans a bit. Maybe make their $90 plan 30GB and raise the other tiers..
Sadly no one really likes hotspot only users. T-mobile is close, and i think binge on is still working, so you really can't complain too much.
LTE uses 5ms-10ms frames. So still, that's 100-200 switching decisions per second, per connection.
if everyone streamed HD youtube all day nobody would get any data at all
Your math skills are lacking. If everyone did that, everyone would be getting as much as possible from their unlimited plans, that's a lot of data.
His solution is obvious, split it evenly between all the customers, without penalizing any of them unequally. In order to provide more bandwidth better technology and coverage might be necessary.
I bet you think that women that talk 10% of the time are stealing all of your limelight too.
If you hit that limit, you are ALREADY using more than other people. This slows you down a _little_ so that the other people that have NOT yet reached that limit - so, by definition, NOT used more than you, can get a chance to use as much as you.
Do you understand? You heap big use. Make slow for other people. When you use lots, get little slower to give other people chance.
Or was that still too complicated for you?
And no judge on the planet and probably no jury, is going to count this particular scenario as a false advertising claim. Any more than if you tried to launch a class action because their LIMITLESS amount was limited by bandwidth available * time.
I have T-Mobile as well and love the free international roaming. I've used it with great success in Asia and Mexico but just last weekend I was in Montreal. I got the same text I always do about free roaming but the entire time I was there I only had voice and SMS service. No data whatsoever.
Maybe you should buy service from T-Mobile in the US and then head home...
You must use a majority of your data in the US (over a few months) to use that plan otherwise they may ban you.
Nobody forces them to offer unlimited plans if they are not able to deliver.
First companies have a race to see who can screw their customers over the most. Now, they're in a race to see who can give customers the most data. So ... do they want to screw us over or not???