T-Mobile soft capping 3G data at 1GB per month
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1| Boing Boing Gadgets found this 9/23/2008 on www.engadget.com (flag) |
Caps are nothing new to the world's 3G networks, but T-Mobile's being particularly stingy with the bytes -- 1GB is all you get. Well, technically you can get more than that, but our friends in magenta are reserving the right to throttle you back to a stifling 50Kbps -- virtually useless by ...
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T-Mobile capping Android G1 3G at 1GB
Published 9/23/2008 by John Brownlee at Boing Boing Gadgets
... ostensible unlimited throughput. I believe it's better now, though.
There's reason to want to give the benefit of a doubt here, though: T-Mobile's American 3G rollout is still relatively new, and the G1 may be the first massive test of the system. Ramping the more omnivorus bandwidth users back a notch to maintain network performance is certainly better than wide scale complaint and revolt. The needs of the many something something.
T-Mobile 3G [T-Mobile G1 via Engadget]
