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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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[–] 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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