T-Mobile Promotion Scheme On ‘Pokemon Go’ Not Good Enough For Customers
T-Mobile has always been in the news for keeping its customers happy with free data schemes. Some of the offers include exemptions in music and video. This time around, the company, as part of its “T-Mobile Tuesdays” promotion, is all set to provide its customers with unlimited data to play “Pokemon Go”.Fans are already excited for the update which is said to continue for one year, i.e. August 2017. It will start from July 19. The unlimited data at an unlimited amount does make T-Mobile the best in providing a special treatment to several apps and types of content. Apart from playing the game “Pokemon Go”, there are also some other perks which people can enjoy.
The announcements regarding the free schemes were made by T-Mobile CEO John Legere. Earlier, the company had come up with another scheme called “Binge On”. But sadly enough, it was not received very well by fans.
As reported by Wired, the deal does not sound to be a good one. Even P3 Communications did try to lure its customers with the “Pokemon Go” free offerings. But with time, it was realized that people have to spend more time in playing the game in order to fill up the 2GB plan.
Furthermore, T-Mobile’s offer also appears to be less pleasing. This is so since the customers will have to download the “T-Mobile Tuesdays” app to be eligible. Moreover, for non-existing customers, they will have to undergo the hassle of switching carriers.
There is another major problem which dampens the whole experience. It is related to net neutrality. T-Mobile is said to prioritize some apps and experiences over others. The company is in a position to pick winners and losers as well. Although, this is very much against the core principals of net neutrality which have been set up by FCC.
All in all, T-Mobile’s free “Pokemon Go” scheme is not as good as it sounds.
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T-Mobile has an offer for fans of the popular Pokemon Go game.
T-Mobile is giving away a full year of free Pokemon Go data through August 2017.
In order to get it, you must claim the offer by August 9th through the T-Mobile Tuesdays App.
You can also get some other freebies, including a free Wendy's frosty and a handful of winners will get a free trip anywhere in the U.S. for themselves and a guest to go Pokemon hunting.
Free Pokemon GO Data for T-Mobile Users, Is It Against Net Neutrality?
Yes, that’s right. Pokemon GO fans who are on the T-Mobile network have a great news to rejoice for. The mobile carrier has announced a few days back that all the customers on the network will get unlimited free Pokemon GO data for one full year! This means that T-Mobile users will not be charged for data used while playing the game.
John Legere, CEO of T-Mobile, said, “With carriers’ shared data schemes, players could easily burn up the family’s data bucket – and then, hello, overages.” The new Pokemon GO free data scheme by T-Mobile works this way- when you play Pokemon GO, the data used by the game will be not counted in your usage from your monthly data pack.
This isn’t much of a surprise, as the mobile carrier has provided such kind of data exemptions in the past. Qualifying T-Mobile consumers have got data exemptions for various video and music streaming services including Pandora, Hulu, Spotify, Netflix, etc.
But those offers were given out to qualifying customers automatically. For the free Pokemon GO data offer on T-Mobile, customers will have to download the T-Mobile Tuesday app to claim the offer the coming Tuesday or on any Tuesdays till 9th August. This exemption of services from data usage charges is also being referred to as zero-rating.