Think my connection there was at 3G as I thought it was pretty fast compared to some other countries I've been in. Each photo is around 1MB.

I tether quite often. I will stick with the current 6 GB plan. Does that mean tethering will be the same as it has been for me, and not change to the new tethering plan? The T-Mobile lwebsite is not accessible to me. Does anyone know?

AFAIK as long as you're on your old(current) plan it should work exactly how it's been working. Only when you change(either by choice or T-Mobile deciding for you) should the behavior change.

Will one be able to add lines to an existing "limited data" plan or will that require :one of the new plans for either the new line or all lines?

Maybe for families that use large amounts of data. When I was looking for a family plan, I ended up at Vz, and this only makes it worse. I'm paying $93/mo for 3 lines today ($105 without corp. discount), this would be $140 with TMo (who discontinued corp discounts)

From WSJ: In the new plan, a family with four phones would pay $160 a month. T-Mobile said its most popular family package previously offered four lines for $120 a month with speeds slowed after six gigabytes of use per device. The new plan will be available Sept. 6. Existing T-Mobile customers can keep their current plans.

I have four lines, 2.5 GB/line, plus an iPad, and the bill is about $124/month including taxes. Last month I had some overseas voice minutes, so it was $133.

As best I can tell, save for Fi, this is the cheapest option.

This. At least with Simple Choice, it didn't cost extra money to disable Binge On.

Ironically AT&T and Verizon now have lower cost base plans than T-Mobile: https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/com...base_postpaid/

The negative press about this new plan is huge. I suspect they will back down from it before September.

Some other TMob executive was quoted as saying the Simple Choice plans would continue to be available, for new customers too.

Otherwise, they can't have the price of entry be the One plan at $70 a month. They would turn away a lot of customers who would get by fine on 1 or 2 GB of mobile data.

They'd never get me to switch with this new sole option.

Glad to hear they're rethinking it.

How on earth could a company decide to move to only one, new, more expensive option in the face of competition?

These guys seem to always push in the other direction: lower fees, more data, data that doesn't count, help with getting out of contracts. This is a complete 180.

They think unlimited data is king

But they built their reputation on low price being king.

Here's an article with more info. Apparently they're still reserving the right to get rid of those plans at some undefined point in the future. The article also doesn't explicitly mention the 10GB plan (only the 6 and 2GB ones) but it sounds like that's probably sticking around too.

Personally I'm sticking with my 6GB plan because I do use tethering.

Well as soon as they get rid of the lower pricing I'll switch back to att. I'll go with whichever carrier that offers me the lowest cost that meets my needs. I don't need more than 2GB per line.