Even if your carrier offers an unlimited data plan there’s always a limit to which you can use 4G LTE data in a billing cycle before the carrier starts throttling your speeds. The limit is normally set over 20GB and for many, that’s enough to get them through one billing cycle. However, who can argue against the benefits of having a higher limit? T-Mobile subscribers are going to like the fact that Magenta has raised its data throttling limit from 28GB to 30GB.
What this means is that unless T-Mobile users hit 30GB of usage in a billing cycle their speeds won’t be throttled. It’s only when they cross the limit do they have to put up with slow mobile data speeds until the next billing cycle.
T-Mobile hasn’t made any fuss about this as yet but it did confirm the increase on its network management policy page which clearly states now that the new threshold is 30GB and not 28GB like it was before. The carrier does point out that it only throttles users who have gone past the 30GB cap when they are in a location where the network is congested. Only then will their mobile data be prioritized below those who are sticking to the threshold.
If those users move to a different location where the network isn’t congested then they might continue to get the normal speed even though they’ve blown the cap. T-Mobile now has the highest threshold, rivals AT&T And Verizon have set it at 22GB while Sprint has marked 23GB as the limit.
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