Tmo 10 GB cap

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So I read about the 10 GB cap on T-mobiles 3g network and wanted to find for myself if there was one. So I started using the internet and yesterday my internet gets slow to edge speeds. And today I get a text message from T-mobile saying I reached my data threshold.

So its true there is a 10 GB cab for one month usage. Well then for the new people in T-mobile have this in mind ^^.

Fortunately my billing cycle ends in 3 days

How long did it take you to hit 10GB. That is a ton of data. I don't think this cap could ever effect me.

It looks like people are really taking advantage of the tethering function. 10GB is more than enough data for me too. I don't think I'll ever have the need to go over that in a month. Are people using their phones to d/l torrents or something?

Damn you went over 10gigs. I thought the cap was at 5gigs. I know sprints caps at 5. I love T-Mobile.

Originally Posted by dy2k

So I read about the 10 GB cap on T-mobiles 3g network and wanted to find for myself if there was one. So I started using the internet and yesterday my internet gets slow to edge speeds. And today I get a text message from T-mobile saying I reached my data threshold.

So its true there is a 10 GB cab for one month usage. Well then for the new people in T-mobile have this in mind ^^.

Fortunately my billing cycle ends in 3 days

Do you have some way to know for sure that 10GB is actually the amount you used?

Originally Posted by sirphunkee

Do you have some way to know for sure that 10GB is actually the amount you used?

Aught to be able to login to your account at my.t-mobile.com and check usage to see the MB transferred.

Now does anyone know when you hit this threshold 5gb 10gb, whatever it is. does t mobile cut off your data completely or just throttle you? I've no problems with throttling down to edge, hell even gprs speeds would still let you send/recieve email, albeit slow as hell. but who cares the phone can do that in the background. it would suck for a heavy web browser though, but common if you're using that much data in a month i think you could use a little time out

I just hope t mobile doesn't follow the likes of what ATT and O2 just recently announced with the iphone4. no more unlimited data, u buy a fixed bucket of 1GB and every GB over that is $10 more. or if t mobile does go this route I hope those of us on current unlimited plans can stay grandfathered on them.

im on a $20 unlimited VPN plan that includes 200mms msgs. this 200mms is perfect for me, as most of the pics i send out are via email or twitter. ive never gone over that 200mms limit in the more than 2 or so years that ive had that plan, then I have a $10 unlimited txt addon. saves me the $5 of doing the unlimited txt/mms plan, and the smaller 1000 txt/mms bucket wouldn't work for me, as i easily go over 1000 txt in a month

Originally Posted by d0ug

Aught to be able to login to your account at my.t-mobile.com and check usage to see the MB transferred.

Now does anyone know when you hit this threshold 5gb 10gb, whatever it is. does t mobile cut off your data completely or just throttle you? I've no problems with throttling down to edge, hell even gprs speeds would still let you send/recieve email, albeit slow as hell. but who cares the phone can do that in the background. it would suck for a heavy web browser though, but common if you're using that much data in a month i think you could use a little time out

I just hope t mobile doesn't follow the likes of what ATT and O2 just recently announced with the iphone4. no more unlimited data, u buy a fixed bucket of 1GB and every GB over that is $10 more. or if t mobile does go this route I hope those of us on current unlimited plans can stay grandfathered on them.

im on a $20 unlimited VPN plan that includes 200mms msgs. this 200mms is perfect for me, as most of the pics i send out are via email or twitter. ive never gone over that 200mms limit in the more than 2 or so years that ive had that plan, then I have a $10 unlimited txt addon. saves me the $5 of doing the unlimited txt/mms plan, and the smaller 1000 txt/mms bucket wouldn't work for me, as i easily go over 1000 txt in a month

My friend who's on AT&T with an iphone said that anyone that had unlimited data already is grandfathered in. Anyone who signs up now can't get the unlimited data... Not saying it's fact, but I can't imagine screwing over long time customers by removing their unlimited data...

Originally Posted by crisisinthecity

My friend who's on AT&T with an iphone said that anyone that had unlimited data already is grandfathered in. Anyone who signs up now can't get the unlimited data... Not saying it's fact, but I can't imagine screwing over long time customers by removing their unlimited data...

Yeah but you know ATT is gona get ya when you want to upgrade to the iphone4 or setup new service for an ipad. Sorry your old data plan is not compatible. Just like TMO was forcing all is us into the $30 data plan to get the HD2 at upgrade pricing. I paid outright for my HD2 to keep my grandfathered data. over the course of 2 years the cheaper data plan will cover what i paid extra to buy it outright, and then after that i start saving money. im also still contract free, since I've been off contract with TMO for something like 2 years now.

Originally Posted by d0ug

Aught to be able to login to your account at my.t-mobile.com and check usage to see the MB transferred.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking about, I just didn't know if he'd confirmed that the point they throttled him started at 10GB of use, or if he just assumed that was the point it happened based on what he had read about the cap.

I remember reading that the tmo terms state that going over the cap (which I thought was at 5-6GB) would result in throttling as opposed to a hard cutoff...but no extra charges unlike AT&T

Even with fairly regular daily useage (casual surfing, mostly during my bus commute) I've never gone over 1.2GB in a month.

I couldn't search on Tmobile's website about how much data I've used. But calculating I downloaded about 6 dvds 1.5GB+ each it should have sum to 10 gb. I couldn't use that much data on my cellphone alone of course ^^. I wanted to see for myself if there was really a 10 gb cap.

Speeds I am getting now are edge even when its on the 3g network.

They didn't warm me about getting to the 10 GB cap with messages only when i passed it. I don't see any charges for passing the 10GB cap either so we will see in a couple of days.