T-Mobile Wants US Mobile Carriers to End All Overage Penalties

no overagesThe Un-carrier mobile company, T-mobile, is urging all wireless carriers to end its practice of overage penalties, which costs US consumers as much as $1 billion annually. As T-Mobile CEO and President John Legere points out, the penalties hurts Americans who are least able to afford them.

Even the lowest data plan from AT&T come far below the national average data consumption, meaning customers who go over their monthly allotment are unwittingly preyed on for overage fees that far exceed their typical data costs:

Traditional carriers’ entry-level plans lure customers in with a low monthly fee for a fixed amount of domestic minutes, texts or data.

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