That decision would make sense some years ago, but it will cost T-Mobile more than they suspect. It would make sense in a world where mobile phones are technologically limited and where no killer apps that result in those high traffic values existed (like 2-3 years ago), but what happens when Facebook, Twitter and others turn to be the reason for those same amounts of traffc? You'll have a lot of unsatisfied costumers, a last-century network, and no content providers interested in making business with you because they know T-Mobile users won't be the ones consuming their contents.
While previously the average user did in fact simply browse, nowadays user will inherently consume AND produce information which results in levels of traffic way beyond that 500 MB cap.
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That decision would make sense some years ago, but it will cost T-Mobile more than they suspect. It would make sense in a world where mobile phones are technologically limited and where no killer apps that result in those high traffic values existed (like 2-3 years ago), but what happens when Facebook, Twitter and others turn to be the reason for those same amounts of traffc? You'll have a lot of unsatisfied costumers, a last-century network, and no content providers interested in making business with you because they know T-Mobile users won't be the ones consuming their contents. While previously the average user did in fact simply browse, nowadays user will inherently consume AND produce information which results in levels of traffic way beyond that 500 MB cap.