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

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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Now if only

[jordanjay29]

I could get a data connection when I'm outside of a big city or major thoroughfare. Rural areas are still T-Mobile's weak zones, and it's something I wish they'd focus a bit more of their efforts on. It's well established that if you want full coverage everywhere, the only choice is Verizon, but if T-Mobile were to actively work on solidifying their coverage they could change that perception and really have some ground to stand on as a competitor.

Re:Now if only

[Anonymous Coward]

those rural areas is the only thing keeping verizon in the wireless business. i miss alltel; that's where verizon's huge rural network came from, but when they bought 'em, they threw out alltel's better customer service and better, cheaper alltel service plans.

Argh.

[Entropius]

I don't want to use 50GB of mobile data a month.

What I want is to make phone calls where the other person can hear me and vice versa, and use a few hundred megabytes of tethering per month without paying an arm and a leg.

Project Fi gives me the latter but not the former...

Re: Argh.

[kimvette]

Bytes from PCs are bigger than from laptops, obviously, which is why they disallow tethering on the unlimited plans. /s

Deprioritization

[Nighttime]

For those wondering what the term means:

"customers who use more than xxGB of data in a single billing cycle will have their data usage prioritized below other customers for the remainder of that billing cycle.
"When your data usage is deprioritized, you may see slower data speeds when you’re at a location where the network is congested. If you move away from this area to a less congested spot or if the location becomes less congested, your data speeds should return to normal."

Source: http://www.tmonews.com/2017/05...

Re:Deprioritization

[kimvette]

Honestly that is far more reasonable than what the big three were doing previously to throttling (cutting off Unlimited customers for using "too much" data or switching them from unlimited to metered plans).

Re: No data service in most of South Florida

[Anonymous Coward]

TMobile has fiber at damn near every tower. Backhaul wasn't the problem, power was.

Re:No data service in most of South Florida

[squiggleslash]

I live in South Florida and I'm a happy T-Mobile user. Absolutely nothing you've said describes my experience with the operator. I saw absolutely no outages during Irma.

I'm not sure if you're making it up, if you used T-Mobile a decade ago and think they haven't improved since, or if you have less... virtuous motives... but basically what you've written is false.