1 gig per month T-Mobile GooPhone cap
p2pnet news view | Mobiles:- It’s becoming an epidemic.
Traffic throttling.
It used to be something you’d hear about once in a while and then a little under a year ago, Bell Canada was caught running a major ‘bandwidth management’ scheme against its customers, across the border Comcast, its US equivalent, was doing the same, and Time Warner Cable boss Glenn Britt earnestly hopes it’ll become a universal reality.
The GooPhone has only just been officially turned loose but it, too, will be shackled, according to Engadget.
Caps aren’t anything new to 3G networks, it says, , “but T-Mobile’s being particularly stingy with the bytes — 1GB is all you get.
“Well, technically you can get more than that, but our friends in magenta are reserving the right to throttle you back to a stifling 50Kbps — virtually useless by smartphone standards, and less than what even a good EDGE network is capable of providing.”
“That’s going to be sour news to heavy G1 users, especially as Android touts its stellar connectivity, world-class browser, and a full suite of data-gorging apps. For now, we’re going to cut T-Mob some slack on this since the threat is purely theoretical, but if they start enforcing this little stipulation with a heavy hand, the G1 is going to have to stay in the pocket a little more than we’d like.”
The news came to light when you Engadget read the fine print under T-Mobile’s G1 page on its Web site, “trumpeting the arrival of the first phone to run Google’s Android software,” it says, adding it, “could be a defensive maneuver to protect T-Mobile’s young 3G network from being overwhelmed by G1 users”.
(Thanks, Luvie)
turned loose – Meet the GooPhone and Android, September 23, 2008
Engadget – T-Mobile soft capping 3G data at 1GB per month, September 23, 2008
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