T-mobile has certainly proved themselves a worthy adversary in the carrier business over the last couple of years. Plenty of changes have brought customers to magenta in droves. Just because T-Mobile is bending, and in some cases, breaking the wireless industry rules, doesn’t mean that there are some things they have to tighten up on slightly. Seems an internal memo has made its way online that depicts that T-Mobile is finally being forced to get a little heavy-handed, at least in one area of its service.
“T-mobile has identified customers who are heavy data users and are engaged in peer-to-peer file sharing, and tethering outside of T-Mobile’s Terms and Conditions (T&C). This results in a negative data network experience for T-Mobile customers. Beginning August 17, T-Mobile will begin to address customers who are conducting activities outside of T-Mobile’s T&Cs.â€
OH NO!! Seriously though, this isn’t really a huge deal. If you are on any normal data plan that offers, say 2GB of data at full speed and then you are throttled anyways, there is no need to worry at all. This is targeted toward the older $70 and the newer Simple Plan $80 unlimited plans that don’t throttle your usage. It isn’t even that this is something new either, T-Mobiles Terms & Conditions have had the policy for some time and now T-Mobile will just finally be enforcing it.
Using the Service in connection with server devices or host computer applications, including continuous Web camera posts or broadcasts, automatic data feeds, automated machine-to-machine connections or peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing applications that are broadcast to multiple servers or recipients, “bots†or similar routines that could disrupt net user groups or email use by others or other applications that denigrate network capacity or functionality.
It is also very important to point out that this isn’t going to happen because you watch too much Netflix or Hulu either, this is aimed specifically at P2P file sharing and tethering outside of the T&C. You won’t go from high-speed data to 2G over night. T-Mobile will contact you first and let you know that they are on to your shenanigans. If you fail to heed the warning, you get a nice little ‘Misuse Warning SOC’ added to your account. Keep pushing your boundaries and that SOC will be replaced with a “Misuse Throttle SOC’ that will slow your data down considerably. This makes it really easy for customer care and store team members to see why you might have data speed issues if you want to pretend that you have no idea what is happening.
You guys have between now and August 17th to get your affairs in order before you have to worry about the throttling. In a nutshell, keep the torrent, P2P and online broadcasting to your hardwired ISP.
Here is an image of the information that T-Mobile reps are reading up on now.
Source: Tmonews
