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T-Mobile Just Ripped 8 Million Customers Off Their Grandfathered Plans – and Raised Their Bills (www.gadgetreview.com)
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“T‑Mobile will never change the price you pay for your T‑Mobile ONE plan.” That was the promise. The Un-contract. The whole reason millions of customers picked the magenta team over Verizon and AT&T in the first place. Now T-Mobile is retiring legacy 3G and 4G-era plans — Magenta, ONE, Simple Choice — and automatically moving customers onto “modern” 5G plans at higher monthly costs. Billing changes hit mid-July for the current wave. The company that swore it would never surprise you with a rate hike just sent the notification.

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[–] 7 points 4 months ago (8 children)

They do shit like this and get away with it because it's slim pickings for a plan that has phone, internet, and most importantly no data cap. All carriers suck at one of those three.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    I'm using Cricket wireless. $45/mo gets me unlimited internet on my phone with a 15gig hotspot.

    I'm all physical media, but if I need to download something, I do it on my phone (sorry, seeders) and transfer it over to my PC to watch on my TV.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    I'm all physical media, but if I need to download something, I do it on my phone (sorry, seeders) and transfer it over to my PC to watch on my TV.

    that sounds like a lot of hassle. why are you downloading on the phone?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    The only hassle is the tranfer, and that's set & forget.

    And I don't spend $50-100/mo (wifi + streaming)to waste time channel surfin.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (2 children)

    you can share your phones internet connection (including wifi) with a computer over USB. you need to enable it on the phone. its cool I think. this way you could also be seeding.

    on linux, with some distros you need to load a kernel module by hand. for some reason it does not load automatically on some of them. if you are interested I can look up my notes about it

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Two things:

    Sadly, my USB port completely borked, so that's off the table. I use KDE-something-or-other to txfr files over my internetless wifi.

    Second, I did look into it, and even on my Graphene OS phone, the USB tether is treated identically to the hot spot; that is to say, the carrier can detect you're connecting a device and there is no workaround other than paying the cellular provider for the privilege of using your connection as they see fit.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    and there is no workaround other than paying the cellular provider for the privilege of using your connection as they see fit.

    there must be a workaround. I have been seeing solutions for this in the past, but I don't remember because I haven't had such a shitty provider.
    probably it's the TTL value in the packets. if you can move the sim card or a clone of it into a portable openwrt router, that's an easy fix, otherwise it would probably need patching android which you probably can't do because graphene is too hostile to that.

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