T-Mobile Unlimited Music....how to tell if it's working?

[Silenus]

I'm on T-Mobile and trying to run a test to try to figure out how this will work/ and how the music data usage will get excluded from your cap. Currently I have Slacker running best quality stream. I have Wifi off and have turned off all other syncing.

What I am noting so far is that running the USSD code #932# to check data usage is clearly showing data steadily being used. Logging in to the My-Tmobile site to check plan usage is also unclear. The front summary page has show no increase in data use (IE: it shows the data amount I had used from before I started my stream). However, clicking through to the detailed usage page shows data consumption steadily increasing, and it's mirrors the amounts that #932# is indicating.

I'm wondering if anyone else who is on T-Mobile who has had their billing cycle after the music unlimited went live and how that 'exempt' music data has been indicated or not on their bill? It's not real clear to me yet how I can tell if the data exemption is working.

 

[Silenus]

Well update: I tried to test again today using Pandora and got different results. Did the same kind of test and noted that the data counters did NOT go up like they did with Slacker yesterday. This is the behavior I had expected to see. Seeing that Slacker is on the list of exempt services that they are promoting I am not sure what's going on. Perhaps there are still some kinks to work out.

 

[Dulanic]

I didn't even know TMo was doing this... I saw they put Google Music on the list to vote for and if they add it, I'm dropping unlimited data. I use very little data outside of streaming music. I'm sure they do it by IP/DNS, so shouldn't be hard for them to do it.

 

[wildshadow]

I just played Pandora for one hour on LTE and then checked my Tmo account online and it didn't count toward my data cap which is far from being exceeded anyway.

Tmo said they wouldn't throttle down music if you exceed the data cap. But if they really don't count music at all toward the cap, then that's great - more room to do other stuff.

 

[lopri]

Interesting. I didn't know about this.

Does this it include Podcasts or anything that's audio-only?

 

[wildshadow]

Pandora, Sptify, Itunes Radio, IheartRadio and a few others are covered.

 

[Oyeve]

Im on tmobile but use my tmobile sim in a VZW branded note 3. I wonder how that would work out.

 

[cronos]

Im on tmobile but use my tmobile sim in a VZW branded note 3. I wonder how that would work out.

It should work just the same. The account is on the SIM card. It doesn't care what phone it is in.