{"id":438,"date":"2011-01-10T18:29:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpscomputing.com\/wordpress\/?p=438"},"modified":"2013-05-19T17:34:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T16:34:33","slug":"t-mobile-reveals-new-fair-usage-policy-for-mobile-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/10\/t-mobile-reveals-new-fair-usage-policy-for-mobile-broadband\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile Reveals New &#8220;Fair Usage&#8221; Policy For Mobile Broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=&#8221;45&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"439\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/10\/t-mobile-reveals-new-fair-usage-policy-for-mobile-broadband\/t-mobile\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/t-mobile.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"5547,1276\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"T-Mobile\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/t-mobile.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/t-mobile.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-439\" title=\"T-Mobile\" alt=\"T-Mobile logo\" src=\"http:\/\/dpscomputing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/t-mobile.jpg\" width=\"392\" height=\"98\" \/>Mobile broadband will never be the same again &#8211; at least for T-Mobile customers.\u00a0 Currently with their mobile broadband package you are allowed either 1GB or 3GB of data transfer a month dependent on your contract.<\/p>\n<p>Now T-Mobile is &#8220;giving notice to customers&#8221; that fair usage will now mean no more than 500MB of data transfer a month.\u00a0 T-Mobile hasn&#8217;t yet made it clear whether this will only affect new customers or existing customers as well saying only that they have &#8220;given fair notice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They continued to state that big downloads as well as video streaming should be saved for home Internet connections.<\/p>\n<p>T-Mobile however have wanted to try and emphasize the positive now stating that you won&#8217;t be charged for going over your data limit.\u00a0 So what happens now I hear you ask?\u00a0 Well, now when you go over your data limit,\u00a0 you get banned.\u00a0 Yes, that right banned! &#8211; for the entire month period till your next bill.\u00a0 I am sure this will be a comfort to all T-Mobile mobile broadband customers &#8211; NOT!<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, if you want to do any more then basic browsing avoid T-Mobile mobile broadband like the plague!\u00a0 They&#8217;ve basically said this themselves! \ud83d\ude09 (minus the &#8220;avoid T-Mobile mobile broadband like the plague!&#8221; bit!).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=&#8221;46&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;45&#8243;] Mobile broadband will never be the same again &#8211; at least for T-Mobile customers.\u00a0 Currently with their mobile broadband package you are allowed either 1GB or 3GB of data transfer a month&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3nsfA-74","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}