T-Mobile has 5G leverage and isn’t afraid to use it
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile created a lot of buzz this week when it announced it was bringing back an unlimited plan without data throttling. In the age of data caps and deprioritization, that seems like a pretty nice deal - and it might be. But as always, there's more at play here than T-Mobile just offering a better unlimited plan.
T-Mobile says its new plan, Magenta Max, is truly unlimited. It includes 4K video streaming and high-speed data without deprioritization, where all other unlimited" plans impose slowdowns once a user hits certain thresholds. T-Mobile chief marketing officer Matt Staneff confirmed in a call with The Verge yesterday that there are no strings attached to the deprioritization bit - it's all-you-can-eat 5G data.
T-Mobile says...