T-Mobile Clarifies How its Treatment of HD Video has Changed Late Monday T-Mobile announced that it would no longer be charging its unlimited data customers an additional fee just to stream HD video. It was a direct response to Verizon's decision to return to unlimited data after years of telling customers they neither needed or wanted the simplicity such plans provide. But T-Mobile's press release was a little bit murky on how this actually worked, forcing us to reach out to the company for a few clarifications.

T-Mobile was happy to oblige, informing us that customers need to enable the function when it launches this Friday for T-Mobile ONE plan customers. "Starting Friday, existing customers can go into the app or online and turn on HD, and once they turn it on there’s nothing left to do," T-Mobile tells us. "It’s a one-time opt in." After that, the company clarified that there is no throttling or de-prioritization of video for these customers, and the change will remain intact until a user disables it. The company also confirmed that this doesn't just apply to HD (780p, 1080p) content, but 4K video streaming as well. "The HD video will be at whatever resolution the content provider pushes out," confirmed T-Mobile. "If they have the HD option turned on and the video is 4K then it will stream 4K," the company added. In other words, video appears to no longer be de-prioritized whatsoever, a welcome shift from T-Mobile's past policies. In other words, video appears to no longer be de-prioritized whatsoever, a welcome shift from T-Mobile's past policies.







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EliteData

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Hampton Bays, NY 12 recommendations EliteData Premium Member wait... did we just go full circle ?

Zenit

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Purcellville, VA 3 recommendations Zenit Premium Member Would like to see them give legacy Simple Choice people a treat I realize T-Mo want's all their customers on their new unlimited-only model. We are on the "old" Simple Choice 1Gb + Unlimited Text&Talk + Free International Roaming + BingeOn plan. They bumped us from 500Mb to 1Gb a few years ago which is great, but it looks like these legacy plans are not going to be revisited at all.



We only pay $75 for 3 lines + an ongoing $25 monthly device payment. It's cheap for what it is, can't get a deal like that now with the lines separate. Would be nice to see the 1Gb go to 2Gb, etc. I'm hitting the cap now pretty much every month where in the past I would be underneath it by 300Mb or so. Probably because their coverage has increased to the point where I can pull LTE anywhere I go.



The new Unlimited system is more expensive, esp. for users who have no hope of ever hitting 28Gb of usage in a month.



Looks like only MVNO's care to cater to lesser data users (under 10Gb). Ting on T-Mo would work but I would miss the international roaming and binge on benefit.



