Yes, I don't disagree that this is a step backwards, and that there are legitimate users being caught out. My point was mostly about the falsehoods that are being spread.
I found some figures by the way, 90% of T-Mobile customers don't go over 500MB, and "a single digit minority uses 30% of the bandwidth". I worked out that if 91% of their customers use 500MB, and 9% use 3000MB, this change reduces their overall bandwidth usage by 31% (assuming all those 9% switch to using only 500MB... if they jump ship, TMobile save 37%), but only pisses off 9% of their customers. I'm sure financially it's a net win... PR-wise... not so much.
(Most of that 91% are "well below" the 500MB line, if we assume 250MB average then the savings are over 50%! I can see why they wanted to do this)
Edit: Noticed while searching for figures that they have backed down! "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"
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Yes, I don't disagree that this is a step backwards, and that there are legitimate users being caught out. My point was mostly about the falsehoods that are being spread.
I found some figures by the way, 90% of T-Mobile customers don't go over 500MB, and "a single digit minority uses 30% of the bandwidth". I worked out that if 91% of their customers use 500MB, and 9% use 3000MB, this change reduces their overall bandwidth usage by 31% (assuming all those 9% switch to using only 500MB... if they jump ship, TMobile save 37%), but only pisses off 9% of their customers. I'm sure financially it's a net win... PR-wise... not so much.
(Most of that 91% are "well below" the 500MB line, if we assume 250MB average then the savings are over 50%! I can see why they wanted to do this)
Edit: Noticed while searching for figures that they have backed down! "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"