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Abusers get kicked off the unlimited data plan. T-Mobile CEO John Legere has announced his intention to go after “Network Abusers” who are using as much as 2 TB of data and are circumventing T-Mobile’s throttling and data caps. Now if you find T-Mobile’s fine print to be anathema, here are three different ways to work around the tethering limits.Įditor’s Note: Before you use these tricks, make sure you don’t abuse them.

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This feature was previously free and only required activation with the My T-Mobile account settings.

True HD (720p or greater) requires an extra $25 add-on per-line. The new T-Mobile One plan offers “unlimited video” data, but it’s only at 480p. Update: We were contacted by a T-Mobile representative who clarified that only 3% of their customer base may see throttling above 28GB on a single line. Not everyone will experience the post-28GB throttling, but do keep in mind that on previous versions of T-Mobile’s unlimited data plan (if you’re lucky to be grandfathered in) this throttling wasn’t present. With that said, the tricks I have below aren’t going to offer you truly “unlimited” tethering data either because that 28GB soft-cap will result in T-Mobile slowing you down if you go over in one billing cycle. T-Mobile doesn’t specify how slow it’s going to be after 26GB, but from my testing with previous T-Mobile data caps, it’s looking like less than 512kbps. But anyhow, if you are using what T-Mobile considers a “phone or tablet” the data cap is effectively still set at 28GB because after exceeding 26GB, speeds slow way down from throttling.

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Your data still isn’t truly unlimited even if you’re just planning on using your phone or tablet-which, by the way, T-Mobile and other carriers still fail to understand that there are Windows and OS X powered tablets, not just Android and iOS. Getting decent speeds requires an additional $15 add-on for 4G tethering and has a data cap set at 5GB per month.

With the new T-Mobile One, there is unlimited tethering at only 2G limacine speeds (512kbps), which stultifies any meaningful use. If you’re a farmer like me and you don’t live in an area with high-speed internet access, the tethering becomes a make-it-or-break-it deal. The first thing I noticed after lucubrating through the terms and conditions was the tethering.