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T-Mobile 5GB Data Throttle Starts Oct.16 :-(

Got TMO Nexus owners ?
Tether or hotspot your laptop all day long like me ?
http://www.tmonews.com/2010/10/t-mobile-reducing-data-cap-will-throttle-speeds-after-5gb-of-usage

Oh no! damn. This sucks.

That's fair. No extra charges.

It is unfortunate, but it was inevitable. As long as there are no extra charges, 5 GB of 3G speed seems fair. Blame everyone who abused their connections >:|

This seems fair, at least its not like 2gb and overage like those poor suckers on ATT
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5 GB on a mobile device is a lot to use. Are you guys streaming HD movies on your phone or somethin??

I agree seems fair. Att is going down hill fast.
FWIW I had 5 gig tehter plan on blackberry as my main internet connection for two months. I came very close but never hit 5 gigs. This was 8 hours a day at work + pleasure.
Id rather have a choice than be stuck with either.
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dude 5gigs is a **** ton... if you are blowing over that every month then you prolly need to look into using wifi a bit more often...

didn't know 10Gb cap.
how slow will it be? i wanna watch streaming video on bed.

Just be glad you're not in the UK, most carriers here limit you to 500Mb now.

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Just be glad you're not in the UK, most carriers here limit you to 500Mb now.
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Oh wow, that would REALLY suck. I definitely go over that easily every month. I have never come close to 5gb though. I'm on AT&T right now with a grandfathered unlimited plan, so I'm ok (for now).

At least the TMO unlimited plan is still unlimited, just at a slower speed once the 5GB is reached. With other carriers charging for overages, I'm not sure how they (the other carriers) can get away with calling it "unlimited".

im guessing this doesnt affect tzones ($5 plan) users... since when i goto my account, even if ive been using over 2gb of data that month, it says ive used zero data... im guessing this is because everything is going through a proxy

norazi said:
im guessing this doesnt affect tzones ($5 plan) users... since when i goto my account, even if ive been using over 2gb of data that month, it says ive used zero data... im guessing this is because everything is going through a proxy
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wow i never thought of that actually...

can the proxy setting be used for other data plans to bypass this data cap? I normally use 6 to 8gb per month as the tether is my only internet access.

The 5GB limit is fair. At least they don't charge you for overages like ATT. My buddy has a 200MB plan because ATT f-ed him when he tried to grandfather his unlimited data plan from ~3 years ago. Now he makes me turn on my N1's hotspot whenever we hang out.

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Just be glad you're not in the UK, most carriers here limit you to 500Mb now.
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+1
My jaw nearly hit the floor when I read that, and then read people complaining about it

I'm around 1.5-2GB per month right now and don't believe that I'll ever read 5GB unless I start downloading huge files all day! I believe this is the right way to treat customers compared to the "big two's" plan. Also, I'm a loyal T-Mobile customer for 7 years now.

I can live with 5GB limit...but they better never change it again to any lower

Victimized ?
Tomorrow (paintball day heheh) is the throttle day.
Post up if your a victim.

5gb data cap question

Is this for customers that sign up after this rule was in effect? Or all tmobile customers including existing customers?
Sone people I know get throttled @ 5gb. Others hit 30 gigs with no throttle. They say cause it don't effect existing customers, is this true? Thanks in advance
Damn this probably should have went in general. My bad yall..

I believe that existing customers are not effected. In the UK tmo is lowering there cap to 50mb (yes that's megabytes) they released a statement that said that existing customers would be un affected and new contracts would
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I'm not certain, but I do think it is for new and old customers.
Does it qualify as a material change to your contract? I don't know about that either, material changes might only apply to changes in fees. Anyway, there is a limited time after a material change to a contract to get out without an ETF.
IF you find the answer about new vs old customers, let us know.

I've been a customer for over 5 years and got the text last week. I have a screenshot but it wont let me upload..(yet?)

So it looks like it don't matter how long ya been with em.. darn.

Rewt3d said:
I've been a customer for over 5 years and got the text last week. I have a screenshot but it wont let me upload..(yet?)
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Have you changed your plan since oct. 10 when the plan took effect?

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Have you changed your plan since oct. 10 when the plan took effect?
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Good question. I may have added a text plan to my wifes non android device.

Rewt3d said:
I've been a customer for over 5 years and got the text last week. I have a screenshot but it wont let me upload..(yet?)
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Good question. I may have added a text plan to my wifes non android device.
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Ahhh I think that's the culprit, people changing their plans are getting effected no matter how long they been with tmobile.... Thanks again

Never been throttled, easily hit 50+ gigs every month.
It is my only internet connex so I tether.....alot
Been with Tblowbile for easy 4 years, maybe 5 ?

n2ishun said:
Never been throttled, easily hit 50+ gigs every month.
It is my only internet connex so I tether.....alot
Been with Tblowbile for easy 4 years, maybe 5 ?
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I'm assuming you haven't recently changed your plan or added anything?

ironlood said:
I believe that existing customers are not effected. In the UK tmo is lowering there cap to 50mb (yes that's megabytes) they released a statement that said that existing customers would be un affected and new contracts would
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I believe it is 500mb across the pond. Which is bad enough. 50 is like 5 min of HD YouTube.
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TJBunch1228 said:
I believe it is 500mb across the pond. Which is bad enough. 50 is like 5 min of HD YouTube.
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Yea I believe its 500 mb there... Poor guys

I bought my Vibrant w/ a 2 year extension in August. Haven't touched my plan at all since then. I was throttled 2 months ago.
It's for both old and new customers. Then again, I was tethering. They probably know when you're tethering and throttle those people because they have a tether plan they wanna sell.
Are the people not being throttled just using 5gb+ on their device only?

I bought the phone the first day on an upgrade from tmo. I still have the "unlimited" txt and web for 35 dollars from my g1. I started getting the txts in nov.

richiehd said:
I bought my Vibrant w/ a 2 year extension in August. Haven't touched my plan at all since then. I was throttled 2 months ago.
It's for both old and new customers. Then again, I was tethering. They probably know when you're tethering and throttle those people because they have a tether plan they wanna sell.
Are the people not being throttled just using 5gb+ on their device only?
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My buddy uses about 30 gb a month, tethering and all. He hasn't gotten a text yet...

He's a lucky dude. I got the text after 6gb.

I got throttled about 2 months ago. Been with tmo for years. I was dl'ing rom and torrents through 3g. Now all my data intensive apps are set to wifi only. Live & learn. But I think everytime you upgrade you're essentially signing a new contract which may or may not have new terms.
Don't blame me, blame my keyboard's autocorrection algorithm.

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I believe it is 500mb across the pond. Which is bad enough. 50 is like 5 min of HD YouTube.
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That was a typo lol I meant to say 500
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My buddy uses about 30 gb a month, tethering and all. He hasn't gotten a text yet...
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does he still have the old $20 android plan or the $25 (or $30 for unlimited) android plus text plan? that may be the difference.

What I forgot to add to my first post is that if you sign a contract for 2 years that says you have 5gb before you are throttled and 6 months into it they change there data plans to cap at 3gb you will be unaffected by the change until you renew your contract
They are required to uphold there end of the contract for the full term so once you sign up for a new contract you are signing up for a 3gb contract or whatever is available at the time.
I'm currently on a month to month plan so I'm not contracted anything that t-mobile decides to do I'm going to be effected regardless of my current standing.
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[Q] Anyone personally been served a notice for Tethering or Excessive Bandwith Use?

I know we had a thread open, but no one definitively came forward to say they received the notification. I am wondering if anyone has personally been served a tethering notice for non iphone, android use, or for excessive bandwith usage on the unlimited plan which many of us have, or will have thanks to the Iphone2g loophole: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1008698 for more info.

I use my Atrix to tether almost daily. A co-worked also uses my connection. I use about 4-5 gig per billing cycle and never got anything from ATT. This usage started with my iPhone and Netflix. I can't wait until it is available on the Market. Until then I want to use about the same so there are no hiccups.

I have hit 10 gigs plus each month with my atrix and tethering. I use it for everything. Xbox live 2 computers and an ipad. Never been hit by ATT for tethering or excessive bandwith usage. I have also received 150 off my last two bills due to ATT not being able to provide HSUPA.
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moehagene said:
I have hit 10 gigs plus each month with my atrix and tethering. I use it for everything. Xbox live 2 computers and an ipad. Never been hit by ATT for tethering or excessive bandwith usage. I have also received 150 off my last two bills due to ATT not being able to provide HSUPA.
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Sweet!! How you get the reimbursement?

I use 4 gigs on my phone alone no tethering what so ever and AT&T hasn't shown any interest
thats just my 2 cents
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I use barnacle for tethering on my iPad and iTouch and netbooks at school. Nothing yet. I use up around 5 gigs a month, and nothing yet.
I'm not expecting to be caught, but if I do, sucks for me.
I too used to use my iPhones for netflix (still do on my ipad and netbooks), so these data rates are abnormal for me.

moehagene said:
I have hit 10 gigs plus each month with my atrix and tethering. I use it for everything. Xbox live 2 computers and an ipad. Never been hit by ATT for tethering or excessive bandwith usage. I have also received 150 off my last two bills due to ATT not being able to provide HSUPA.
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You use it for xbox live? How's the lag?
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I still have my unlimited data package from my Iphone 3g. ATT just grandfathered me in each time when I threw in my sim card in my new phones.

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I know we had a thread open, but no one definitively came forward to say they received the notification. I am wondering if anyone has personally been served a tethering notice for non iphone, android use, or for excessive bandwith usage on the unlimited plan which many of us have, or will have thanks to the Iphone2g loophole: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1008698 for more info.
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I reached 20GB from downloading Torrents, Streaming Netflix on my XBox, playing online computer games, PSN, and XBL. (One at a time).
That was last month and I haven't gotten a warning of any sort.....
When I play online it doesn't lag if I only have one thing connected at a time.

I used it for halo reach. It worked really well. Im sure it will be even better with hsupa. That was in raleigh nc getting around 1.5 down and 3.3 up.
Packetloss and upload we're undetected. NAT was moderate. Seemed like games took a little longer to load. Playing cyrsis 2 the lag was a little more noticable but still I can't complain. My wife tried playing nascar 2011 on xbl but was unable to get into a race. I did notice phone calls, text messages, and data traffic would kick me offline. But I can't complain it worked for me
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Interesting. I never thought about using my phone for online gaming. That's pretty cool. Didn't think it'd be fast enough.
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I am in the 4gb range at most with the occasional tether. I am so proud of you guys getting 20gb month, I would be too afraid to get caught plus there is so much free wifi around me.
For those of you running Xbox live, what speeds are you getting?(just curious)
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I used 50G plus this last cycle and haven't been hit with anything...use it for gaming and home internet...i also work for the company and have seen the news bout the letters but still don't know how they will track the data...its all up in the air and gwent been rolled out yet from what I know/seen. I'm scared cause love the teathering with phone for tablets and hate to see it go away.
JEEPERS CREEPERs MOTHA ****A

Here's something funny. My wifes iphone 3gs. Use to be mine. Jailbroken with mywi. She is on the 2gig plan. Used 886 mb so far with little tethering and she got a message saying she will be moved to a tethering plan if we continue to use tethering. As I have already stated
In previous post I use my atrixfor every. And im going to use it even more now with hsupa enabled. ATt can't do anything unless u let them.
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nacixem said:
I used 50G plus this last cycle
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WOW! hahahaha

I haven't gotten anything. I tether daily. I average 5-8gb per month.
50gb? No wonder att throttles us.
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God damn... I get two gigs on fido and I have to pay if I go over. Seriously screw you guys... Knock me down and call me susan thats a sweet deal.
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I'm with susan on this one... for real, 50?
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Personally when I bought unlimited data a few years ago I knew I would take advantage of it one day. Now is the time
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my previous phone was the t9193 (imported hd2) and i was on the $10 dumb phone plan. I would hit 9-12gb per month, and never had an issue, tethering nearly everyday.
Just got my atrix a few days ago, (used the iphone 2g trick to get the unlimited data plan. sucks going from 10 to 30, but meh) and im already at 3gb. Almost all tethering.

T-Mobile monthly 4g vs contract

So I usually buy my phones full retail anyway and I use a lot of data. We all know how T-Mobile $70 plan has unlimited everything other than data, 5gb. I dropped by T-Mobile store and their new plan, has unlimited data! Same price, before 15% discount! Problem? Contract... I have 14 days to cancel and just go month to month, but lose unlimited data... What do you guys think?
I've had monthly 4g before and loved speeds, the fact that it wasn't unlimited though...
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Get the $30 plan, use WiFi as much as possible and get SIPDroid

air2k57 said:
So I usually buy my phones full retail anyway and I use a lot of data. We all know how T-Mobile $70 plan has unlimited everything other than data, 5gb. I dropped by T-Mobile store and their new plan, has unlimited data! Same price, before 15% discount! Problem? Contract... I have 14 days to cancel and just go month to month, but lose unlimited data... What do you guys think?
I've had monthly 4g before and loved speeds, the fact that it wasn't unlimited though...
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Yeah, the Value Plan? I was considering that too, maybe the 500 minute plan with unlimited data for $60 too depending on how much you talk on your phone.
So far I ordered the prepaid sim and going to activate the $30 plan, if I don't like it I can just go to the Value Plan.

One very bad thing about T-Mobile is that any changes you make to your plan, it renews/resets the contract to the current date.
Be very careful with T-Mobile contracts.
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Yes I don't like the idea of a contract,specially since I didn't even get a phone through them...
I was considering $30 a month plan, problem is... I also free lance, at times I use a phone a lot while on the go and VoIP is too unreliable for that in this area. There are spots with very poor T-Mobile data coverage here. So I'm stuck with either unlimited +5gb, or unlimited + contract.
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Its all up to ur usage....
Do u really need unlimited??? On average I use about 1 GB. And a while back when I tried to use as much data as a I can...I only maxed at out about 3 GB. (Bascially Pandora every time I listen to music...which is about 2-3 hours a day total???)
If you tether a lot then its very worth it.
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Do you really use more than 5gb? I think that would REALLY be a challenge for anyone. Keep in mind that unlimited account are generally always monitored for tethering (especially if Tmobile does have a tethering add-on)
I consider myself a very heavy user as I charge my GSM GN 3-4 times a day, cause I always have something running on it (streaming) . The only exception to bring up, is that I use WIFI when I'm home. I've never passed the 3gb mark
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Do you really use more than 5gb? I think that would REALLY be a challenge for anyone. Keep in mind that unlimited account are generally always monitored for tethering (especially if Tmobile does have a tethering add-on)
I consider myself a very heavy user as I charge my GSM GN 3-4 times a day, cause I always have something running on it (streaming) . The only exception to bring up, is that I use WIFI when I'm home. I've never passed the 3gb mark
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I've had my Nexus 4 for about a day and I've already racked up about 1GB pretty easily. I'd recommend one of their value plans. For 69.99 you get truly unlimited, no 5GB throttle point. They require a 2 year contract but if you're sticking with T-Mobile for a while that doesn't really matter. Canceling the contract early is $200 ETF. Without it you'd spend $89.99 for the same plan, so it seems pretty worth it to me. Attached a screenshot of my 1 day usage...

Be a small business owner like me and pay $55 a month for 1000 minutes, unlimited text/4G with no throttling

thrab said:
I've had my Nexus 4 for about a day and I've already racked up about 1GB pretty easily. I'd recommend one of their value plans. For 69.99 you get truly unlimited, no 5GB throttle point. They require a 2 year contract but if you're sticking with T-Mobile for a while that doesn't really matter. Canceling the contract early is $200 ETF. Without it you'd spend $89.99 for the same plan, so it seems pretty worth it to me. Attached a screenshot of my 1 day usage...
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You're probably in the minority here. I'm pretty sure most people aren't spending a majority of their day watching TwitchTV on 4G and tethering....and WiFi is not that hard to come by these days (home/work).
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Do you really use more than 5gb? I think that would REALLY be a challenge for anyone. Keep in mind that unlimited account are generally always monitored for tethering (especially if Tmobile does have a tethering add-on)
I consider myself a very heavy user as I charge my GSM GN 3-4 times a day, cause I always have something running on it (streaming) . The only exception to bring up, is that I use WIFI when I'm home. I've never passed the 3gb mark
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All accounts are monitored for tethering. It isn't hard to use more than 5GB.. Hell ROMs are 200mb each, some of the newer games are up to a GB , plus streaming spotify it's really rather easy for some of us.
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joshnichols189 said:
All accounts are monitored for tethering. It isn't hard to use more than 5GB.. Hell ROMs are 200mb each, some of the newer games are up to a GB , plus streaming spotify it's really rather easy for some of us.
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You have to remember though... if you are going to download a large file, are you going to use WiFi, which is way faster than HSPA+, or are you actually going to download a 200mb ROM over data?
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arich said:
Be a small business owner like me and pay $55 a month for 1000 minutes, unlimited text/4G with no throttling
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That sounds like a good plan.
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You're probably in the minority here. I'm pretty sure most people aren't spending a majority of their day watching TwitchTV on 4G and tethering....and WiFi is not that hard to come by these days (home/work).
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Was only maybe a bit over an hour of Twitch (720p stream) while in the car and about 30 minutes tethering while I VPN'd into work on the go. OP had already stated he used a lot of data and is likely to hit the 5GB cap. So while you say "most people", the OP is not most people.

Black Wireless (AT&T mvno)

http://www.blackwireless.com/Default.aspx
Has anyone tried them yet or currently using their service? $60 unlimited with 2gb of data on at&t network seems like a decent deal, but they seem pretty similar to H20, who offers 2gb of data for the same price but throttles you after 500mb. Just curious cause I can't seem to find too many reviews of them on the web.
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You'd be better off with a SIM from Straight Talk.
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You'd be better off with a SIM from Straight Talk.
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Not a Straight Talk fan but I have to agree, if 2GB is all your getting with Black Wireless, go for ST and don't look back.

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You'd be better off with a SIM from Straight Talk.
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im on straight talk at&t now, this is my first month... i got throttled halfway into the month and im positive i havent even used 1gb yet.
im jumping ship on them as soon as my month is up. I came from T-Mobile prepaid and I don't wanna deal with this petty a** throttle stuff. all I need is 2gb a month, I never go over that and I don't really stream or tether. really wanna keep the at&t coverage though, after using it for the past 2 weeks I've realized its waaaaaaaay better than tmo in my area
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Not a Straight Talk fan but I have to agree, if 2GB is all your getting with Black Wireless, go for ST and don't look back.
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lowrider262 said:
im on straight talk at&t now, this is my first month... i got throttled halfway into the month and im positive i havent even used 1gb yet.
im jumping ship on them as soon as my month is up. I came from T-Mobile prepaid and I don't wanna deal with this petty a** throttle stuff. all I need is 2gb a month, I never go over that and I don't really stream or tether. really wanna keep the at&t coverage though, after using it for the past 2 weeks I've realized its waaaaaaaay better than tmo in my area
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When you got throttled, did they turn off data completely or was data just extremely slowed?

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When you got throttled, did they turn off data completely or was data just extremely slowed?
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slowed down. every speed test comes up as .23 mb/s, regardless of where I am, time of day, or signal strength. before I was getting anywhere from 1.5- 6mb down
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Is this only for black people?
JUST KIDDING!
Never heard of this MVNO before. Post your experience with it if you sign up please? Thanks. :good:
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Seems just exactly like H2O Wireless if you ask me, i'm using them now. ....
LOL - Actually if you look at the bottom you'll see it's from Locus Telecom anyways which is the owner of H2O and others. America Movil (Tracfone, Straight Talk and Net10) is the other big one but i hear they are wanting to buy Locus or maybe just the H2O portion.
So this is just a copy of their other offerings with a different name to do extra revenue stream I guess. People might have a bad deal with H2O so they switch to Black Wireless LOL only to still be with the same company.

I'll save $15 and stick with ST.
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slowed down. every speed test comes up as .23 mb/s, regardless of where I am, time of day, or signal strength. before I was getting anywhere from 1.5- 6mb down
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Have you called them? I also wouldn't be surprised if you did use ~2gb especially if you did OTA app updates.

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I'll save $15 and stick with ST.
Have you called them? I also wouldn't be surprised if you did use ~2gb especially if you did OTA app updates.
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not yet, I opened a ticket on their fb page the other day but it didn't fix anything. and I don't update or download stuff on data I have WiFi at home. I've been on the 2gb plan from tmo for a while before this so I'm pretty mindful of data usage, on a regular month I'm between 1.5-1.7gb.
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not yet, I opened a ticket on their fb page the other day but it didn't fix anything. and I don't update or download stuff on data I have WiFi at home. I've been on the 2gb plan from tmo for a while before this so I'm pretty mindful of data usage, on a regular month I'm between 1.5-1.7gb.
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Dunno I'm on the st Tom plan right now and have bumped up against the 2gb "cap" a number of times with no throttling but I've gone back and forth (between Tom and AT&T) since getting st so I hope st isn't going to start throttling at 1gb.

I just got my N4 today. Don't know if it has been mentioned here before, I put my GoPhone $50 unlimited sim (dumb phone plan) in, data and calls worked fine. Been using for a few months with a Note2 N7100 and had no issues with throttling. No telling how long before ATT starts blocking it. My Note N7000 was blocked form the first day. I'm currently testing the TMobile $30 dollar plan to see if their coverage works for me.

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I just got my N4 today. Don't know if it has been mentioned here before, I put my GoPhone $50 unlimited sim (dumb phone plan) in, data and calls worked fine. Been using for a few months with a Note2 N7100 and had no issues with throttling. No telling how long before ATT starts blocking it. My Note N7000 was blocked form the first day. I'm currently testing the TMobile $30 dollar plan to see if their coverage works for me.
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still working fine? I'm looking for some alternatives but the mvno's are kinda iffy with the data ambiguity

Black Wireless
I bought a sim card two Saturdays ago. I only got it on the following Friday, pretty slow shipping.
Activation was painless, it worked fine. I have not tried data yet. I was excited about the international calling. But they are a lot more expensive than what they claim. For example, they said I have 19 minutes to call cell phones in Argentina, well, I dialed a cell phone number and I got a message saying I only had credit to talk for 5 minutes! So, I hung up, didn't make the call since it was four times more expensive than what they claim. Same when I call to landlines, I was supposed to have like 10 hours, the first time I call it said I had like 6 hours left, I talked for about 4 minutes. The next day I make another call to Argentina and it said I had about 4 and a half hours, and this call was about 6 minutes. Next I make another call and I get the message that I have 3 and a half hours to talk. So for each call they are charging me like a whole hour! It is definetly not what they are advertising. If there is a connection charge, they don't state it anywhere I could find it.
I sent a support e-mail two days ago and have yet to hear back.
So, I would not recommend this service to anybody.

For those with slow speeds on ST att, they have a new apn.
make sure you are using the new apn tfdata.
I have used over 4gb and still cranking 6mb down 3 mb up.

kthejoker20 said:
For those with slow speeds on ST att, they have a new apn.
make sure you are using the new apn tfdata.
I have used over 4gb and still cranking 6mb down 3 mb up.
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Is there a way to check your data usage with ST besides tracking it with your phone? I have been flashing different things on my N4 so that in not accurate.

1. I used 11215 and got $5 off with free shipping.
2. Paid for 1 month and got second month free.
3. Decent customer rep.
4. They include free International direct dial minutes. Around 300 minutes in $30 plan and so forth.
5. Got my SIM in 3 days.
6. Porting took 5 hours.