T-Mobile Will Let You Stream Netflix Without Using Up Your Data
T-Mobile's new 'Binge On' plan will let you stream video from services like Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Go without burning up your mobile data plans. The company said Tuesday that its customers will be able to double the amount of videos they stream, photos they upload and emails they send. The announcements were made today at T-Mobile's 10th Uncarrier event in Los Angeles.
Beginning this Sunday, video streams free at T-Mobile for subscribers of Crackle, Encore, ESPN, Fox Sports, Fox Sports Go, HBO Now, HBO Go, Hulu, MLB, Movieplex, NBC Sports, Netflix, Sling TV, Sling Box, SHOWTIME, STARZ, T-Mobile TV, Univision Deportes, Ustream, Vessel, Vevo, VUDU - with more streaming services on the way - without ever burning up users' data. And it’s available to T-Mobile's all current and new Simple Choice customers on qualifying plans for free. T-Mobile is also including Verizon’s Go90 and AT&T’s DirecTV streaming services in Binge On.
Binge On is open to any streaming video provider who meets the technical requirements, which are available online at www.t-mobile.com/bingeon.
The service optimizes video for mobile screens, minimizing data consumption while still delivering DVD or better quality (e.g. 480p or better).
In addition, T-Mobile is celebrating the launch of Binge On with an offer of 30% off a full year’s subscription to Sling TV’s "Best of Live TV" package available to all Simple Choice customers. And those T-Mobile customers with Unlimited smartphone LTE get a free streaming movie rental every single month in 2016 with Binge On.
On top of that, the Un-carrier today also amped up its flagship Simple Choice plan by doubling the data at every level and cutting the cost of extra gigs. In addition, families can now get twice as much high-speed data as before - at no extra cost - when everyone gets extra 4G LTE data.
Simple Choice customers still start with one line at just $50 a month for unlimited data, talk and text on T-Mobile’s 4G LTE network. But you’ll now get a full 2GB of 4G LTE data - twice the previous amount - on each line. As before, customers can still add a second line for $30 a month−but now with 2GB of 4G LTE data. Additional lines up to 12 are still $10 per month - but each now come with 2GB of 4G LTE data.
And now, when everyone in the family gets extra 4G LTE data, families can save even more with T-Mobile’s new Family Match. Everyone will get twice as much data as before at no extra cost. They can add an extra 4GB of 4G LTE data (on top of the 2GB included), including mobile hotspot data, for $10 more a month on each line, up to a total of 10GB per line. For families who’d rather customize their data by line, extra data is just $15 a month for each 4GB - compared to $20 a month for 4GB before.
Unlimited-data customers will get double the amount of data they can eat up via a tethering connection, now 14GB.
The announcements come as carriers have clamped down on usage as services such as Netflix and YouTube gobble up more data. Verizon and AT&T no longer offer unlimited-data plans, and T-Mobile and Sprint are also slowing down their heaviest users.