John Legere, T-Mobile's outspoken CEO has issued a strong statement with the hope to stop network abuse by penalizing a fraction of subscribers that 'steal' data. The third largest mobile operator in the US said that it will go after a small group of users who are 'stealing data so blatantly and extremely that it is ridiculous'. Legere warned, "We are going after every thief, and I am starting with the 3,000 users who know exactly what they are doing".
"It’s a small group – 1/100 of a percent of our 59 million customers – but some of them are using as much as 2 terabytes (2,000GB!) of data in a month. I’m not sure what they are doing with it – stealing wireless access for their entire business, powering a small cloud service, providing broadband to a small city, mining for bitcoin -- but I really don’t care! These abusers will probably try to distract everyone by waving their arms about throttling data", added John Legere.
Customer experience is my top priority & that means eliminating anyone who abuses our network. #byebye http://t.co/VdfpTBIQ3J
— John Legere (@JohnLegere) August 31, 2015
T-Mobile's standard unlimited 4G LTE smartphone plan includes 7 GB of data via tethering through the mobile HotSpot feature enabled on smartphones. The service throttles users to lower speeds once the data threshold is hit.
Time to get real clear on all this industry jargon. #tethering101 pic.twitter.com/hssYwi4ruQ
— John Legere (@JohnLegere) August 31, 2015
