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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.
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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 ?
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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?
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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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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.
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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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Sorry if posted elsewhere.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/19/verizon-finally-killing-unlimited-data-plans-this-summer/
"Verizon's been telegraphing its intent to drop unlimited data plans for nearly a year, and despite the fact that LTE smartphones launched with all-you-can-eat options, those plans haven't changed one bit. Reuters reports that Verizon will finally nix the megabyte buffet this summer, replacing it with a fully tiered data pricing scheme, though CFO Fran Shammo also floated the idea that tiered data could open up an avenue for family data plans. We've never really enjoyed sharing minutes, so we doubt counting our kilobytes will be much fun, but we suppose there's always room for Verizon to pleasantly surprise us with a really low price for mobile web browsing. Right? By the by, Fran also reiterated claims that the next iPhone will be a global device, and said that when it launches on AT&T, it'll hit Verizon stores at the very same time."
Well just another way for verizon to suck,but it's okay my carrier sucks in their own way too
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wow, just like at&t..........
Congrats all you illegal tethering abusers. They decided not to play games with you and went straight for the throat. Go ahead, tether....you'll only hit your cap faster....idiots.
Really? News like this and 60+ views and four replies? I smell a forum full of people who know they F-ed up.
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Really? News like this and 60+ views and four replies? I smell a forum full of people who know they F-ed up.
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I'm kinda surprised actually at the lack of discussion.
ugh. we all knew the day was coming. in a year or so when more 4g is readily available; landlines speeds and wireless competition will eventually drive landline speeds up since they are now slower, and wireless speeds will hopefully become unlimited.
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I'm kinda surprised actually at the lack of discussion.
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As am I. It's front page news everywhere and being XDA you would think we would be covered up with comments. Other sites have thousands of comments.
well i think its a good news for me and i am very happy you posted it there i have also listen one good mobile newsthat nokia company is investing billions with a partner . maybe its true or not but its a good news for everyone .
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I'm kinda surprised actually at the lack of discussion.
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That's probably because it's been in discussion for about a year now. This was known since last year when AT&T start slashing unlimited data. Even at the beginning of the year, Verizon has said that they'll do away with unlimited data by summer and what do you know...it's summer time.
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That's probably because it's been in discussion for about a year now. This was known since last year when AT&T start slashing unlimited data. Even at the beginning of the year, Verizon has said that they'll do away with unlimited data by summer and what do you know...it's summer time.
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Even then, I figured most people would be reserving their full blown opinions until it actually happened/didn't happen.
amazing, the silence is deafening
Sigh
Leave it to a Verizon sales rep to feed me lies of them not doing this.
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Leave it to a Verizon sales rep to feed me lies of them not doing this.
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That's their job.
If they do this, I'm leaving them at the end of my contract. I'm looking for a way to contact Verizon's executives.
grandfather clause FTW
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Even then, I figured most people would be reserving their full blown opinions until it actually happened/didn't happen.
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It's annoying, but I'll reserve my full ire for the day my cable company adds a cap. That's where I've always done most of my streaming, gaming, and downloading, anyway.
So I got on the unlimited data plan back in November, I'm sure that for the rest of my 2 year contract I'll still have unlimited data but I'm wondering how this will effect things when I go to renew..
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Complaining about it on a message board accomplishes nothing.
Leaving Verizon for Sprint, on the other hand, will absolutely get noticed.
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Complaining about it on a message board accomplishes nothing.
Leaving Verizon for Sprint, on the other hand, will absolutely get noticed.
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Sadly sprint have consider going the tier route as well. the solution is not about playing a game of hot potato by dropping one carrier for another, its about changing the ways we use the internet and make use of the wifi capability of our smartphones.
Link here!
Is this going to affect regular unlimited Internet usage or this only for those who are paying extra to get the Hotspot feature? Would this warrant a free ETF break? (I want an S3 so bad )
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Link here!
Is this going to affect regular unlimited Internet usage or this only for those who are paying extra to get the Hotspot feature? Would this warrant a free ETA break? (I want an S3 so bad )
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Here's the pissy part about this. They send this out to us on June 5th when it went into effect June 1st. WTF! I'm not so irritated that they did this as much as I am about the lack of notice.
I wonder if this would be enough to get out of the ETF. Would help me because i have an account that i dont use anymore... that im still paying for. This would be liable cause.. i think?
It's clearly only a cap on data when tethering using the official tethering app with the tethering add-on plan.
I could be wrong but wasn't this announced months ago?
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It's clearly only a cap on data when tethering using the official tethering app with the tethering add-on plan.
I could be wrong but wasn't this announced months ago?
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That's what it looks like, so I guess I'll be flashing CM7 on both of the Epics on my account.....
So.... Since I haven't rooted and epic in 6+ months, what's the current method?
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That's what it looks like, so I guess I'll be flashing CM7 on both of the Epics on my account.....
So.... Since I haven't rooted and epic in 6+ months, what's the current method?
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So would tethering on ROMs like AOKP still allow unlimited tethering without a data cap?
I supposed technically since you arent subscribed to their HotSpot, it looks like you are only using data through the phone for apps and websites, so yes its still unlimited.
Woops sprint. Looks like its back to losing customers again. Businesses never learn apparently.
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Link here!
Is this going to affect regular unlimited Internet usage or this only for those who are paying extra to get the Hotspot feature? Would this warrant a free ETF break? (I want an S3 so bad )
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This is MOBILE BROADBAND and OFFICIAL TETHERING only!!! Phones themselves are still unlimited...well except for that soft 5GB cap that they have had on the 3G for quite some time now but that is nothing new and their 3G is so slow you'd have a hard time actually hitting that cap. But the 4G on the phones is truly unlimited.
Not really that big of a deal since I so rarely use my phone to tether and use unofficial access to it anyways.
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It's clearly only a cap on data when tethering using the official tethering app with the tethering add-on plan.
I could be wrong but wasn't this announced months ago?
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months ago, they added caps to Mobile Broadband Hotspots, Connection Cards, Netbooks, Tablets
and no you still have to pay the ETF.
This is Hotspot tethering announced months ago!
People should read what they post!
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I posted this on reddit aswell... I usually follow xda/reddit (android) closely and haven't heard of this so i thought i would warn others.
Well i had a feeling this day would finally come, a frustratingly sad day. This is my story so i don't know how prevalent it may be. I am running a galaxy note 3. I am part of the originally "unlimited data plan" that i have been grandfathering the past few years. My galaxy note 3 is rooted and using a SafeStrap based custom rom. Ofcourse it has all the nice tweaks/xposed modules that i have learn to love in the android community. Ofcourse it enables tethering.
I don't use tethering often (mainly when i dont have Wifi, or if in public to avoid crappy wifi coverage). So i mainly use 1-2 gb a month of random google music tethering/other misc downloads updates... so i am NOT being an excessive user. So my total usage is between 2.5-3 gigs. I was contacted from AT&T yesterday (by text 2-3 days ago, phone call yesterday). They gave an ultimatum. They called out explicitly that i was using unauthorized tether (not using a large amount of data as you can see).
The ultimatum was:
Your service is been cancelled at the end of the month.
OR
Moving to the "Family Plan" shared/capped data plan. They also required tethering to be added on to the plan since i was using it.
This is old news. The release of Android 4.1 enabled carriers to see the difference between using data, and redistributing or tethering data.
There are work arounds for this. Some devs even remove this feature from their roms. You have to do your research on it though.
This is still good info though for new users.
Wow wish they would have threatened to cancel my service. I would have said thanks.
I just switched to the mobile share 8gb plan, which includes mobile hotspot, and have never gone over 6gb for the whole family ever with my old plan with 4 lines having 3gb and my unlimited costing nearly 400 a month now costs around 300. I don't think its too bad.
440bro said:
This is old news. The release of Android 4.1 enabled carriers to see the difference between using data, and redistributing or tethering data.
There are work arounds for this. Some devs even remove this feature from their roms. You have to do your research on it though.
This is still good info though for new users.
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would it be frowned upon if you posted said information?
jonrobertd said:
Wow wish they would have threatened to cancel my service. I would have said thanks.
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If they cancel your service you have to pay off the remainder of your contract agreement. For some it might not be to bad. But for someone that just renewed it could be costly!
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I posted this on reddit aswell... I usually follow xda/reddit (android) closely and haven't heard of this so i thought i would warn others.
Well i had a feeling this day would finally come, a frustratingly sad day. This is my story so i don't know how prevalent it may be. I am running a galaxy note 3. I am part of the originally "unlimited data plan" that i have been grandfathering the past few years. My galaxy note 3 is rooted and using a SafeStrap based custom rom. Ofcourse it has all the nice tweaks/xposed modules that i have learn to love in the android community. Ofcourse it enables tethering.
I don't use tethering often (mainly when i dont have Wifi, or if in public to avoid crappy wifi coverage). So i mainly use 1-2 gb a month of random google music tethering/other misc downloads updates... so i am NOT being an excessive user. So my total usage is between 2.5-3 gigs. I was contacted from AT&T yesterday (by text 2-3 days ago, phone call yesterday). They gave an ultimatum. They called out explicitly that i was using unauthorized tether (not using a large amount of data as you can see).
The ultimatum was:
Your service is been cancelled at the end of the month.
OR
Moving to the "Family Plan" shared/capped data plan. They also required tethering to be added on to the plan since i was using it.
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Hotspot shield from the play store really helps in this situation...
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FWIW i'm at 110gb this cycle (8 days left) which is rather typical of my usage and haven't heard a peep. I use a Motorola Atrix running CM as a mobile hotspot, rather than my G Note 3, however.
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110gb this cycle (8 days left)
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Geez. You have no idea how jealous I'm of people who still have Unlimited Data.
Thank you for making AT&T pay for being douche of a carrier. :good:
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FWIW i'm at 110gb this cycle (8 days left) which is rather typical of my usage and haven't heard a peep. I use a Motorola Atrix running CM as a mobile hotspot, rather than my G Note 3, however.
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haha good man
I'd stick to the atrix unless you know you can spoof/vpn the traffic (or what ever preventative measures). Just frustrating cause i dont even abuse my tether... like 3 gigs a month on an unlimited plan (and using unauthorized tethering)... they should pay me for NOT abusing it... lol.
Needless to say... now there is nothing "keeping" me at ATT once my contract is up... since i dont have my unlimited plan anymore! Hopefully in next year or so the other carriers (tmobile/sprint) will be just as good at half the price... i dont mind an ocassional dropped call/spotty coverage if it means i'm paying half :good:
Edit: Also made this post so others will know... so they don't "lose" unlimited plan and get screwed if they are new to the scene
Da_G said:
FWIW i'm at 110gb this cycle (8 days left) which is rather typical of my usage and haven't heard a peep. I use a Motorola Atrix running CM as a mobile hotspot, rather than my G Note 3, however.
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Please share your secret with me!!! I hit 5gb's and AT&T throttles me so hard it takes 10 minutes to download a 4mb app from the Play Store.
Da_G said:
FWIW i'm at 110gb this cycle (8 days left) which is rather typical of my usage and haven't heard a peep. I use a Motorola Atrix running CM as a mobile hotspot, rather than my G Note 3, however.
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110 GB?! What are you doing with your phone? Streaming 4K video 24/7?
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Da_G said:
FWIW i'm at 110gb this cycle (8 days left) which is rather typical of my usage and haven't heard a peep. I use a Motorola Atrix running CM as a mobile hotspot, rather than my G Note 3, however.
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I have these phones. Looks like I'll be flashing back to gingerbread! Woo! No more battery drain from experimental jelly bean.
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haha good man
I'd stick to the atrix unless you know you can spoof/vpn the traffic (or what ever preventative measures). Just frustrating cause i dont even abuse my tether... like 3 gigs a month on an unlimited plan (and using unauthorized tethering)... they should pay me for NOT abusing it... lol.
Needless to say... now there is nothing "keeping" me at ATT once my contract is up... since i dont have my unlimited plan anymore! Hopefully in next year or so the other carriers (tmobile/sprint) will be just as good at half the price... i dont mind an ocassional dropped call/spotty coverage if it means i'm paying half :good:
Edit: Also made this post so others will know... so they don't "lose" unlimited plan and get screwed if they are new to the scene
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T mobile will pay your early termination fees if you want out of your contract.
http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/switch-carriers-no-early-termination-fee.html
To the Op, are you 100% certain that this is you very FIRST time being contacted by AT&T? I ask ask you because along with myself and several of my former GS2 users we received messages from AT&T telling us that they saw that we were tethering and told us to stop or be forced to a tethering plan.So I chose to stop and not lose my unlimited plan. We all were on unlimited and I'm still on unlimited on my Note 3.
DA_G what APN are you using on your atrix. May worth a try for those of us running SS ROMs and can change APN.
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440bro said:
T mobile will pay your early termination fees if you want out of your contract.
Only works if you give up your current phone and buy t mobile ones for a monthly charge.
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I must have been a lucky one! BUT NOT AT THE SAME TIME!
krushin said:
I posted this on reddit aswell... I usually follow xda/reddit (android) closely and haven't heard of this so i thought i would warn others.
Well i had a feeling this day would finally come, a frustratingly sad day. This is my story so i don't know how prevalent it may be. I am running a galaxy note 3. I am part of the originally "unlimited data plan" that i have been grandfathering the past few years. My galaxy note 3 is rooted and using a SafeStrap based custom rom. Ofcourse it has all the nice tweaks/xposed modules that i have learn to love in the android community. Ofcourse it enables tethering.
I don't use tethering often (mainly when i dont have Wifi, or if in public to avoid crappy wifi coverage). So i mainly use 1-2 gb a month of random google music tethering/other misc downloads updates... so i am NOT being an excessive user. So my total usage is between 2.5-3 gigs. I was contacted from AT&T yesterday (by text 2-3 days ago, phone call yesterday). They gave an ultimatum. They called out explicitly that i was using unauthorized tether (not using a large amount of data as you can see).
The ultimatum was:
Your service is been cancelled at the end of the month.
OR
Moving to the "Family Plan" shared/capped data plan. They also required tethering to be added on to the plan since i was using it.
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I was warned about 3 times about tethering with my phone. I too am an original unlimited data plan grandfathered in at $30 Bucks a MONTH! MUHAHAHA! The 1st time it happened it said on my bill "TETHERWARN" $0.00
Kind of scared me a bit but I continued to do it anyway and received 2 more warnings this way. I guess because it was only for a couple MB of data here and there. Some months nothing and other months just a tiny bit because I was scared at that point. Didn't want to lose my unlimited plan. :victory:
Unfortunately I found out we really don't have TRUE unlimited data anyway. After you go over 4.5GB used for the month you will receive a text message saying after 5GB you will be throttled big time!!! I was so SHOCKED by this! I can't believe I'm really only getting 5GB of data when it's supposed to be unlimited. I guess they changed everything after the family share crap started.
Figured I'd share this if anyone still has the grandfathered "Unlimited Data" plan. THEY ARE LIARS!
PS. I still tether THOUGH!! I have a windows surface tablet and use PDA NET for desktop and the FOXFI app in the play store! I can ONLY tether using bluetooth or USB though because the WiFi tether is disabled in settings now, which doesn't really bother me because it is fast enough to browse the web or even play World of Warcraft with the bluetooth tether option. It is actually decently fast with USB tether also. HERE'S THE BEST PART! PDA NET SCRUBS all PC data from the packets sent and received! There is an advanced addon feature you can download from FOXFI that does this for you. The free version shuts off at 50MB of data transferred and you just have to click the checkbox off and back on to get it to reconnect for an addition 50MB. OR, you can pay the 7 or 8 bucks for the full version and never be interrupted. I'm about to buy it because I haven't received any TETHER WARNS from att since I started using PDA NET! I think it does the scrubbing of PC data from the packets very well. I drive for a living so tethering for me is mandatory on my windows tablet. So if you are about to lose your data plan JUST BE CAREFUL and do your research! There is always a way with computers! Hoped this helps someone...Thanks for reading and sorry this is so LONGGGGGGGG!
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I still tether THOUGH!! I have a windows surface tablet and use PDA NET for desktop and the FOXFI app in the play store! PDA NET SCRUBS all PC data from the packets sent and received! There is an advanced addon feature you can download from FOXFI that does this for you. The free version shuts off at 50MB of data transferred and you just have to click the checkbox off and back on to get it to reconnect for an addition 50MB. OR, you can pay the 7 or 8 bucks for the full version and never be interrupted.
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This was what I've been looking for! Thank you.
I also have a grandfathered data plan, and get throttled after ~4.5GB of use. I've received several warnings about tethering but thankfully my family plan wasnt botched - I've just had to stop tethering... Until Now! PDA Net FTW.
Question!
If you tether from one ATT phone to another ATT phone or tablet (but not ATT), can they tell? (without having to use PDA NET)
krushin said:
I posted this on reddit aswell... I usually follow xda/reddit (android) closely and haven't heard of this so i thought i would warn others.
Well i had a feeling this day would finally come, a frustratingly sad day. This is my story so i don't know how prevalent it may be. I am running a galaxy note 3. I am part of the originally "unlimited data plan" that i have been grandfathering the past few years. My galaxy note 3 is rooted and using a SafeStrap based custom rom. Ofcourse it has all the nice tweaks/xposed modules that i have learn to love in the android community. Ofcourse it enables tethering.
I don't use tethering often (mainly when i dont have Wifi, or if in public to avoid crappy wifi coverage). So i mainly use 1-2 gb a month of random google music tethering/other misc downloads updates... so i am NOT being an excessive user. So my total usage is between 2.5-3 gigs. I was contacted from AT&T yesterday (by text 2-3 days ago, phone call yesterday). They gave an ultimatum. They called out explicitly that i was using unauthorized tether (not using a large amount of data as you can see).
The ultimatum was:
Your service is been cancelled at the end of the month.
OR
Moving to the "Family Plan" shared/capped data plan. They also required tethering to be added on to the plan since i was using it.
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I received and email like that a couple of years ago except they told me to stop or else. Needless to say, I stopped.
That is a good question. I really don't know for certain because I no longer use my nexus 7 anymore since I got my windows surface. I do believe PDA Net has an android version which I would assume does the same thing as my desktop version. But then if you consider it's a mobile device with no PC info to scrub(I think that was your question) it might just look like it's your actual phone using that data. Really is a good question that I cannot answer with certainty. Sorry, I can't help with that one. :what::what::what::what:
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It's about to start...
http://m.androidcentral.com/sprint-begins-throttling-users-congested-areas
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It's about to start...
http://m.androidcentral.com/sprint-begins-throttling-users-congested-areas
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Well, thankfully its only top 5% of data users in high congested areas. With wifi, doesn't count thankfully haha. But I do agree its wrong to put caps on some customers.
Looks like I'll be using wifi at home now. Lol
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Well, thankfully its only top 5% of data users in high congested areas. With wifi, doesn't count thankfully haha. But I do agree its wrong to put caps on some customers.
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I wonder if there'll be a way to tell when it's actually happening to you vs just slow network etc?
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I wonder if there'll be a way to tell when it's actually happening to you vs just slow network etc?
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Atleast to hit whats Sprints says is a "high user" is to be 5GB of data (not including Wifi). Takes a lot to hit 5GB unless doing Sam ROMs downloaded by data everyday haha.
I disagree. I am already using 7gb halfway through my billing cycle and I'm not even rooted or hotspotting yet
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I hope they notify you if you are being throttled
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Agree to that, notifying would be good. I was assuming using wifi for larger files.
I have used about 13gb in a week... Thats going to suck.
I used 6 gigs the first 5 days of my billing cycle. There is no other reason to be on sprint other than unlimited data.
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I think you guys are over doing it with the porn lol.
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I really hope they don't do this crap.
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hendav said:
I used 6 gigs the first 5 days of my billing cycle. There is no other reason to be on sprint other than unlimited data.
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x1000. Only reason I'm with them. If they pull this crap on me I'll let T-Mobile pay my ETF and bail.
I like the idea of sprint doing this, but hopefully they find a good way to determine who is unfairly using the data. I read people bragging that they root the phone and don't bother paying for internet at home. Is it really fair for someone to use 100GB+ a month because they're too cheap to pay cable bills and make everyone else have slow speeds?
However, it's also not fair to throttle people that just watch a lot of netflix on the phone and run 20-30GB a month since they're not breaking any rules. Especially now that many phones don't come with SD cards and everything is moving to the cloud and streaming.
I would probably leave to a GSM carrier if they throttle at 5 gigs since that is utterly ridiculous since "unlimited" data is the reason I am also still with sprint and haven't signed a 2 year contract since 2006.
I use 15-25 gigs a month. My job allows me to play slacker radio 10 hours a day lol. I do almost all my rom and mod downloads over mobile data. I'm only home two weekends a month so Wi-Fi is scarce unless I'm enjoying Google Wi-Fi at Starbucks.
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i guess some are getting letters
https://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/143791
If this happens I'm leaving Sprint.
s13silviaguy said:
If this happens I'm leaving Sprint.
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its already happening unfortunately...starting on june 1 thought
throttling
I work at radioshack when I heard this I immediately contacted my sprint rep this is what he said.
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...And this thread is already going downhill.
Want to bring up a topic and discuss, great. But XDA isn't in the complain-about-your-carrier-and-phone-manufacturer department. That's why each have contact numbers to call them and express your opinion.
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