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T-Mobile Just Ripped 8 Million Customers Off Their Grandfathered Plans – and Raised Their Bills (www.gadgetreview.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm using Cricket wireless. $45/mo gets me unlimited internet on my phone with a 15gig hotspot.

I'm all physical media, but if I need to download something, I do it on my phone (sorry, seeders) and transfer it over to my PC to watch on my TV.

[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lmao I'm amazed cricket still exists. I remember using their shitty USB internet sticks 15 years ago.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

There's a small profit to be made administering a plan on a common carrier while the bigger operators. rake in the big money from idiots permanently leasing a fucking cell phone.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm all physical media, but if I need to download something, I do it on my phone (sorry, seeders) and transfer it over to my PC to watch on my TV.

that sounds like a lot of hassle. why are you downloading on the phone?

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The only hassle is the tranfer, and that's set & forget.

And I don't spend $50-100/mo (wifi + streaming)to waste time channel surfin.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

you can share your phones internet connection (including wifi) with a computer over USB. you need to enable it on the phone. its cool I think. this way you could also be seeding.

on linux, with some distros you need to load a kernel module by hand. for some reason it does not load automatically on some of them. if you are interested I can look up my notes about it

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week 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.