Apple News | T-Mobile Drops Overage Charges On Its 5GB Data Plan

T-Mobile says it will drop overage charges on its 5 GB monthly webConnect mobile data plan and instead throttle users' speeds if they exceed that limit, according to a FierceWireless report. They are also cutting overage charges in half for the 200 MB monthly plan.

Previously, the nation's No. 4 carrier charged $0.20 per MB of data that users went over their 5 GB limit; now users will just have their data speeds slowed--but T-Mobile did not say by how much. T-Mobile said that only a "very small" number of users go over 5 GB per month when the plan is used in conjunction with an existing home broadband service. T-Mobile also cut the overage on its 200 MB monthly plan from $0.20 to $0.10 per MB. The carrier first introduced the data plans in March.

On promotion, the 5 GB plan now costs $40 per month and the 200 MB plan now costs $20 per month for existing subscribers.