T Mobile 6 Month Web - Fair Use Policy

Probably the best value, relatively low use Pay As You Go mobile data deal in the UK is the T Mobile 6 Month Web offer.

You get this by texting "6MONTHWEB" to "441" with a T-Mobile PAYG SIM with at least £20 credit on it. It takes the £20 and gives you data for 6 months.

The data included seems to be a little ambiguous, you get 1GB but can use more subject to a "Fair Use Policy".

I don't have a problem with this but had difficulty in finding out what the Fair Use Policy is.

I've now found:

"This Booster comes with a fair use policy of 1GB a month. We'll monitor how much you send and receive each calendar month so that we can protect our network for all our customers"

I had a heavy month on the Internet use and had a text to say I was at 80% of the Fair Use Policy and another when I reached 100% and a link which didn't work due to the merging of the EE, Orange and T-Mobile websites. The Internet connection may have gone slower or stopped working at that point (but this is a little hard to tell as sometimes the T-Mobile internet does that anyway !).

I had used more than 1GB but since I was counting by the month based on buying the offer not the calendar I don't know how much.

I've now set the phone data counter to be calendar month so if I get towards the unpublished limit I can work out what it is.