T-Mobile announced that the company would no longer sit idly and watch as a small amount of customers eat up a huge amount of mobile data.
T-Mobile offers its customers the opportunity to sign up for an unlimited 4G LTE data plan. This means that customers can use as much data as they want on their smartphones. They can even tether their phones to their computers to create wi-fi hotspots. However, customers are limited to only 7GB of tethering data per month. To use more than 7GB, customers must purchase more access from T-Mobile.
T-Mobile announced that a tiny minority of its customers are currently gobbling up huge amounts of data through mobile hotspots. Less than 1 percent of current customers with unlimited data plans are installing apps or creating shields to allow them to by-pass the 7GB restriction. These customers are using as much as 2,000 GB of data every month.
In a blog post, T-Mobile President and CEO John Legere announced his intentions to take aim at the small group of people who he claims are stealing data from the service provider. Legere also says that if something is not done, the actions of these few could begin to affect the services of T-Mobiles rule abiding customers.
Using 2,000 GB, or two TB, of data every month of data is no small feat. In terms of storage, a two terabyte hard drive could hold 34,000 hours of music, 80 days of video, or 620,000 photos
Legere admits that he has no idea how the culprits are using all of that mobile data. The amount of data used is the equivalent to providing Internet data for active members of a small city.
Because those abusing their data privileges are probably quite tech-savvy, there is some speculation that these users could even be mining bitcoin with all of that data.
Regardless of how it is used, T-Mobile will no longer be turning a blind eye to customers exploiting its services. Any customers caught doing so will be sent a warning message from T-Mobile. If they continue to abuse the system, the group of 3,000 warned users will then lose their unlimited data privileges and be forced into a smaller data plan.
Customers can consider themselves warned. CEO and Internet Sheriff John Legere will no longer allow a few thousand people to jeopardize the services of T-Mobile’s 59 million paying subscribers.
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