{"id":2512,"date":"2015-08-31T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2015-08-31T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T20:13:00","slug":"t-mobile-chasing-unlimited-lte-data-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=2512","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile chasing unlimited LTE data \u201cthieves\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"block-title\">\n<p>T-Mobile CEO John Legere likes to tout that he\u2019s one of the only remaining wireless networks that continues to sell a plan that advertises unlimited data. For most customers, the LTE speeds cut off at a certain point, and the rest of the unlimited data is tethered at slower speeds. Some users are finding way to skirt around that throttle, and Legere isn\u2019t too pleased.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis week, I am taking aim at a select group of individuals who have actually been stealing data from T-Mobile,\u201d\u00a0Legere said in a recent\u00a0blog post. \u201cIf their activities are left unchecked their actions could eventually have a negative effect on the experience of honest T-Mobile customers. Not on my watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Legere said about 1\/100th of\u00a0a percent of T-Mobile\u2019s 59 million customers are abusing the system by \u201chacking,\u201d or rooting their phones and downloading software that skirts the LTE data cap. The company said it is going after the first 3,000 offenders beginning Monday. If you\u2019re busted going over the 7GB 4G LTE cap, you\u2019ll first receive a warning. If you\u2019re caught again,\u00a0you\u2019ll be put back onto T-Mobile\u2019s entry-level\u00a0Simple Choice\u00a0plan where you\u2019ll then need to choose the best option for your needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure what they are doing with it \u2013 stealing wireless access for their entire business, powering a small cloud service, providing broadband to a small city, mining for bitcoin \u2014 but I really don\u2019t care,\u201d Legere said. Some might argue they\u2019re paying for unlimited service but, from Legere\u2019s point of view, they\u2019re abusing the system and stealing LTE bandwidth\u00a0from paying customers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"infinite-scroll-metadata\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.t-mobile.com\/issues-insights-blog\/stopping-network-abusers.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T-MOBILE<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.t-mobile.com\/docs\/DOC-23577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T-MOBILE (2)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta \"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile CEO John Legere likes to tout that he\u2019s one of the only remaining wireless networks that continues to sell a plan that advertises unlimited data. For most customers, the LTE speeds cut off at a certain point, and the rest of the unlimited data is tethered at slower speeds. Some users are finding way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}