T-mobile made a pretty huge announcement regarding their cell phone plans going forward. The new plan has been dubbed T-Mobile One. On the surface it sounds like a pretty amazing deal. There will no longer be capped data plans. This also gets rid of roll over data. The plan includes unlimited everything. You get unlimited calls, text, and data. The first line is $70, line number 2 is $50 per month and then you can add up to 8 more lines at $20 each.
When you read the fine print you can see how these plans benefit T-Mobile more than the do the consumer. This effectively eliminates the low tier cheaper plans. Those of you who simply don't need unlimited data will possibly have to pay for a plan that includes it once your contract expires. Unless of course they decide to grandfather tiered data plans. T-Mobile will throttle the top 3% of users which is anyone using 26GB or more per month. Throttling brings you down to 2G speeds. All video services are throttled down to 480p including Netflix and Youtube. You can actually get rid of that 480p limit for an extra $25 per month. You can tether your unlimited data to other devices at 2G speeds over wifi hotspot, or you can get 5GB of high speed tethering for an extra $15.
As you can see this plan seems a bit wolfinsheepsclothingy. The plan arrives on September 6. Existing customers can transfer over to the new plan if they find that they are being charged for overages regularly.
via T-mobile
