T-Mobile UK announces new data fair use policies

by Mikka Burrell
tagged data, fair use, T-Mobile, T-Mobile UK

T-Mobile UK has made an announcement that they will be capping data at 500MB for future customers starting February 1st.

In a statement released on the T-Mobile UK website, T-Mobile said, “On Monday 10 January 2011 we announced that, in line with the rest of the industry, T-Mobile would be reducing its Fair Use Policy for data usage to 500MB a month for all mobile phone customers. Following a further review of our policy, these changes will now be introduced from 1 February, to new and upgrading customers only – not existing customers. There will be no change to the data packages for existing customers for the duration of their contract and we apologise for any confusion caused. The revision to the Fair Use Policy is designed to ensure an improved quality of service for all mobile internet users.”

T-Mobile UK reps are making it at a point that existing customers will not be effected by these changes and can still enjoy the data plans they have now for the duration of their contract. Also, it will be possible to upgrade to 1GB per month of data usage by purchasing a Mobile Broadband Booster.

To me, 500MB is a pretty restrictive limit on the amount of data one may use on their smartphone. Leave your thoughts in the comments below.

[via tmobileuk]

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Comments

ramshead27

Restrictive.
Little Man

I am so sick of the way this world is getting and especially the corporate industry and its state of control or monoplizing the consumer leaving us with our hands tied this company used to be in one of my tops great customer service, care, and customer value but here now with this data plan change and along with some recent customer care experiances I see that they’re just falling right along in on the BIG MAN syndrom what I’m talking about about is the way thing are going screw the little while the big man fills his pockets they have billions of dollars and still greedy hungry for more so instead of creating some mind blowing wonder to increase customers let’s take the food out their mouth and when their starving we’ll charge em 3 times as much for it that’s why are economy is going under screw the little while the big man fills his pockets I’M SICK OF IT
Poobs

they want us to get Android phones that are designed to make use of the interwebs and then they say 500mb is fair use……