T-Mobile CEO John Legere today announced that the carrier will be taking strict action against a “small group of users” who are intentionally violating its terms and conditions and masking excessive tethering data being used by them.
T-Mobile offers a fixed amount of LTE data for tethering purposes for free with its unlimited 4G LTE plans. Once customers reach this limit, which is presumably 7GB, the tethering speed is reduced. To increase the speed, customers can purchase more LTE tethering data from the carrier.
However, a small group of T-Mobile customers are going out of their way to bypass this restriction from the carrier. They are using apps, rooting their device, and even writing code to mask their tethering data usage. Legere says that customers indulging in such activities are only about 1/100 percent of its total customer base, but they are using as much as 2TB of data in a single month.
T-Mobile will be going after every single person who indulges in this activity starting from tomorrow. The carrier will first warn the offenders, then proceed to move them to an entry-level limited 4G LTE data plan if they don’t pay heed to that warning.
You can find an FAQ from T-Mobile regarding its move against network abusers here.
[Via T-Mobile]
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