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Title: T-Mobile threatens to impose limited plans on data 'thieves' Post by: HCK on August 31, 2015, 09:00:13 pm T-Mobile threatens to impose limited plans on data 'thieves'
<article> <section class="page"> <p> T-Mobile USA is going after data thieves, which it says are taking advantage of the company's unlimited high-speed data plan through excessive tethering - the use of smartphone data service on other devices.</p><p> The carrier offers unlimited 4G LTE on smartphones, but limits data usage through tethering to 7GB a month under a Smartphone Mobile HotSpot feature, which reduces speed beyond that limit. If a customer needs more LTE tethering, they can add on more.</p><p> But CEO John Legere late Sunday accused some users of “hacking” the system to swipe high-speed tethered data (http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/issues-insights-blog/stopping-network-abusers.htm), by strategies like downloading apps that hide their tether usage, rooting their phones, or writing code to mask their activity.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2977765/phones/t-mobile-threatens-to-impose-limited-plans-on-data-thiefs.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: T-Mobile threatens to impose limited plans on data 'thieves' (http://www.macworld.com/article/2977765/phones/t-mobile-threatens-to-impose-limited-plans-on-data-thiefs.html#tk.rss_all) |