Not everyone on T-Mobile sports an unlimited high-speed data plan. For the rest of us, we sometimes have to watch what we have left in our allotment. Not out of fear of exceeding it and having a costly bill, because T-Mobile did away with overage. More so because we still want the high-speed service and to not be throttled. I just never use enough data when I am not home to need unlimited, seriously, I think my highest month ever was like 500MBs. I am a Wi-Fi lifer. Part of the T-Mobile Uncarrier 6 announcement was that certain music streaming apps would’t touch that allotment, and that you would also stream at full speed even if you did. Now another set of apps are getting the T-Mobile no throttling whitelist protection.
Don’t go jumping up and down for joy because it isn’t Plex or Netflix. No, OOKLA, the network speed test app that many use to share their download and upload speeds on their carrier’s network, will now be exempt for throttling. Right along with other speed test service. T-Mobile wants you to still be able to see the network speed, even if you have hit your limit.
“The Ookla Speedtest.net application is designed to measure true network speed–not show that a customer has exceeded their high-speed data bucket. Other speed test providers are also whitelisted,” the carrier said.
Basically T-mobile will handle data generated by speed test apps just as it does the currently available streaming music services data and not count it towards your monthly allotment. Pretty straight forward. Does seem silly to use up your data to test your data to see the data speeds. That was a lot of data wasn’t it.
All of this brought up quite a bit of concern regarding net neutrality principals and questions on if T-Mobile was taking money to give preferential data treatment to the current apps. T-Mobile states they are not and none of the apps data requests are handled any differently than before, they just don’t trigger as usage on the customers allotments.
Source: Fiercewireless Via: AndroidAuthority
