As previously noted, I'm in the last T-Mobile 6 month Internet booster I'll ever have.
A few days away from home in a hotel with broken Internet access (no DHCP on the router - a common problem with "guest" WiFi in hotels and elsewhere) and I used the T-Mobile 6 month Internet booster for tethering various media consuming devices.
When I went away I had used about 500MB in the month (so half of the 1GB "fair use policy" allowance).
The usage quickly went up, after 24 hours a couple of GB more had been used, half way through the following day the 80% of the FUP text came. About 6 hours later the "exceeded fair use policy" text arrived.
This seems to have triggered limited download and upload speeds of about 500kb/s (perhaps a quarter of what T-Mobile 3G can achieve in peak periods from my experience).
I'm now at 5.2GB used in the calendar month for £3.33.
This is why the offer had to end !
Saturday 29 October 2016
Friday 7 October 2016
Stopping iOS updates and getting rid of downloaded but not installed updates
The following is a note derived from the following extremely useful post by SergZak at:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-9741
I don't want my iOS devices updated to iOS 10 as they work well at the moment and I've previously found Apple allow devices to be updated to a point at which their performance suffers.
To stop updates I've blocked mesu.apple.com using OpenDNS (which I use on my router).
I've also deleted the previously downloaded update by finding the iOS update app at:
Settings
General
Storage & iCloud Usage
Manage Storage.
There I found the iOS update app. By tapping on the app I could delete the app.
Once again, many thanks SergZak !
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-9741
I don't want my iOS devices updated to iOS 10 as they work well at the moment and I've previously found Apple allow devices to be updated to a point at which their performance suffers.
To stop updates I've blocked mesu.apple.com using OpenDNS (which I use on my router).
I've also deleted the previously downloaded update by finding the iOS update app at:
Settings
General
Storage & iCloud Usage
Manage Storage.
There I found the iOS update app. By tapping on the app I could delete the app.
Once again, many thanks SergZak !
The end of the T-Mobile 6MONTHWEB booster
Sadly the T-Mobile £20 for 6 months Internet data offer is ending (or has ended depending on when you read this).
Not much has been made of this but I happened across mention of it on the Thinkbroadband forums.
A further well targeted Google and the sad news was confirmed.
To ensure that nobody will buy it again the price has been doubled.
In a slight breach of copyright (I see it as review) but to ensure that this change isn't airbrushed out of mobile network history this is what EE (T-Mobile) have to say on the subject:
http://ee.co.uk/help/add-ons-benefits-and-plans/price-plans-and-costs/t-mobile-price-plans/t-mobile-pay-as-you-go-price-increase
on 07/10/16
The excellent Money Saving Expert also covers the change:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/phones/2016/09/data-booster-prices-double-for-t-mobile-customers
The T-Mobile data offer was the best PAYG data offer for years (I guess I have been using it for more than 5 years) and I'm sorry to see it go. My "high score" was 2GB in a calendar month, not bad for £3.33 !
Having put £18 on the SIM to buy my last 6 Months of WEB perhaps I'll get a PAYG upgrade from Carphone Warehouse with the SIM as well before it goes in the bin.
The best offers now seem to the the EE 6GB/3 month offers which can be ebayed for less that £20 or the 3 3GB/3 months for about £10. I guess the market price of these will increase as the "6 Month Web" buyers go somewhere else.
Not much has been made of this but I happened across mention of it on the Thinkbroadband forums.
A further well targeted Google and the sad news was confirmed.
To ensure that nobody will buy it again the price has been doubled.
In a slight breach of copyright (I see it as review) but to ensure that this change isn't airbrushed out of mobile network history this is what EE (T-Mobile) have to say on the subject:
T-Mobile pay as you go price increase
We know they’re not popular but
we haven’t actually increased any of our rates since 2013, and in that time the
costs of running our business have continued to rise. Our EE pay as you go
rates are staying the same and you can buy packs of minutes, data and texts to
get even better value.
Find out more about switching
seamlessly to EE by visiting one of our stores or go to ee.co.uk/movetoee.
How will I
know if my price is increasing?
All customers who are impacted by
the price increase will be contacted. You will receive a minimum of 30 days'
written notice (via text) notifying you before the increase takes place.
What the
2016 T-Mobile pay as you go price rises mean for you
From 10 October 2016 we’ll be
making changes to the costs of some internet boosters on T-Mobile.
Please see below the new charges
for your internet booster:
Internet Booster
|
Length
|
Before 10 Oct 2016
|
From 10 Oct 2016
|
Blackberry monthly data booster - Unlimited
browsing
|
30 days
|
£5
|
£12
|
Standard monthly data booster - not Blackberry
|
30 days
|
£5
|
£12
|
Standard 6 month data booster - not Blackberry
|
6
months
|
£20
|
£40
|
Blackberry 6 month data booster
|
6
months
|
£20
|
£40
|
From:
T-Mobile "So long, and thanks for all the data"
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