T-Mobile says it will slow data speeds for users who break the rules
| Mobile Minute: T-Mobile US is the latest carrier to confirm plans to “throttle” some LTE customers. According to an internal memo obtained to TmoNews, the practice will start Sunday and will only impact users on unlimited data plans who are breaking T-Mobile US’s rules by using their 4G connections for peer-to-peer file sharing or tethering. T-Mobile US’s news follows a similar announcement from Verizon Wireless, which plans to slow data speeds for its heaviest users on unlimited data plans starting in October. (More on LTE throttling and the FCC.) In other news, China Mobile said today that revenue for the first half of the year rose 7% to roughly $53 billion. The world’s largest wireless carrier said profits fell 8.5%, in part due to infrastructure spending. China Mobile is building an LTE-TD network. China Mobile added 60.8 million new subscribers during the first half, many of them no doubt attracted by the carrier’s long-awaited iPhone. Buying a new iPhone here in the United States could save consumers up to $200 on a new iPad with AT&T. For more on that see the video below. |
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