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T-Mobile To Increase Deprioritization Threshold To 50GB This Week (tmonews.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the ripple-effect dept.

After raising its deprioritization threshold to 32GB in May, it looks like T-Mobile will bump it up to 50GB on September 20th, according to a TmoNews source. The move will widen the gap between T-Mobile and its competition. For comparison, Sprint's deprioritization threshold is currently 23GB, while AT&T and Verizon's are both 22GB. TmoNews reports: It's said that this 50GB threshold won't change every quarter and no longer involves a specific percentage of data users. As with the current 32GB threshold, customers that exceed this new 50GB deprioritization threshold in a single month may experience reduced speeds in areas where the network is congested. T-Mobile hasn't issued an announcement regarding this news, but the official @TMobileHelp account recently tweeted "Starting 9/20, the limit will be increased!" in response to a question about this news.

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  1. No data service in most of South Florida by Miamicanes · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Warning to anyone in Florida considering a switch to T-mobile: their data network is nowhere CLOSE to having the robustness of Verizon and AT&T. Ask your friends & coworkers... they'll confirm it.

    For the past week, T-mobile has had large-scale data outages across Florida that were MUCH more widespread and longer-lasting than Verizon's and AT&T's.

    Simply put, T-mobile (like Sprint) uses cheaper, unreliable backhaul providers (like Comcast) for ALL data backhaul. Verizon and AT&T have real T-3 lines at some sites, and private microwave links to those sites from the rest.

    T-mobile has NOWHERE NEAR the generator infrastructure (including private fuel depots and trucks) that Verizon and AT&T have. They use battery backup for almost everything.

    Simply put, T-mobile's network is very "lean" and has very little/no ability to deal with large-scale commercial power outages (at least, insofar as data is concerned).

    If you care about having internet access after a storm, T-mobile is definitely NOT the right network for you. You won't be satisfied with them. At the very least, buy a used Verizon JetPack wifi hotspot on ebay & keep it around so you can activate it for a month whenever T-mo fails you... because inevitably, it WILL.