The Uncarrier has been working hard to rise to the top of American wireless carriers, and the results thus far have been rather promising.

T-Mobile has been gaining customers left and right (take Q1 2017, for example) over the last few years, with a large number of new customers having left Verizon to do so. T-Mobile has been wooing Big Red customers, particularly with its Pixel promotional that educates customers about the unlocked nature of their Pixel or Pixel XL (and now Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL).

Magenta has been generous, granting free Netflix plans and increasing the unlimited data throttling cap from 22GB to 50GB, which is a great move, but every new prize and feature comes at a cost: Magenta gives, and Magenta takes away. The latest casualty for T-Mobile customers is the “Mobile Without Borders” plan for the US, Canada, and Mexico that has now been given, to use a politically charged term in the current climate, its own “wall.” The Mobile Without Borders plan now has “borders.”

The Mobile Without Borders plan allowed subscribers to use their data plans when in Canada or Mexico as they use them in the US without having to add an additional data package or cellular option for international travel. Well, some customers were using and abusing the privilege, so T-Mobile is placing “the ban-hammer” on the abuse with a 5GB 4G LTE, high-speed data cap when US customers travel overseas.

The first 5GB of data will be at the usual, 4G LTE speed; any data usage after that will see internet speeds slow down to 128kbps or 256kbps (which makes cellular data barely usable at that point or desirable, for that matter). The 5GB 4G LTE data cap will affect old legacy rate plans, Simple Choice North America, and T-Mobile ONE plans.

The whole intent of T-Mobile’s “Mobile Without Borders” was that your data plan wasn’t limited to normal use in the US only, but T-Mobile is now giving borders to a “without borders” plan – undoing the plan entirely. We suppose T-Mobile will have to rename the plan “Mobile Within Borders” to clear up any confusion.

SOURCE [T-Mobile]

VIA [Droid-Life]