New Tiered Data Plans for T-Mobile Leaked
The industry is getting there, slowly but surely. New leaks today seem to confirm what everyone’s been expecting: T-Mobile’s looking to go with tiered data plans depending on what type of phone you have with them. Feature phones will be able to take advantage of an afforadble 200 MB for $10 per month plan with 10 cents per MB overage ($30 max). Not too horrible considering feature phones will probably never consume that much data (and feature phones will not require data attachments.) Standard smartphones will be required to have this plan at a minimum, but can take advantage of the unlimited plan, if the user wants to.
The unlimited web plan goes for $30 on EM and $25 on EM+ with the same 5GB speed reduction we’ve heard of before. These will be geared for T-Mobile’s higher-end web and multi-media optimized smartphones (G2, Samsung Vibrant, etc.) Standard phones and feature phones will also be able to take advantage of this one. (It also wasn’t clear if these phones require this data plan, but I assume they do.)
What say you guys on these? You still get to keep your unlimited plans, but are throttled whenever you hit that big number 5. Those who don’t need as much of the web as others can still get an Android handset with the $10 plan – better to have a choice than to be forced to pay $30 just because a phone runs Android. [via TmoNews]