T-Mobile Lifts Data Cap

The T-Mobile G1 hasn’t been official for a week and T-Mobile has already been grilled for their policy that states that they reserve the right to impose a soft cap on users who exceed 1GB of data usage on their G1’s. The good news is that they’ve fixed their policy, so as not to be a wet blanket to the G1’s launch. Their statement reads:

“Our goal, when the T-Mobile G1 becomes available in October, is to provide affordable, high-speed data service allowing customers to experience the full data capabilities of the device and our 3G network. At the same time, we have a responsibility to provide the best network experience for all of our customers so we reserve the right to temporarily reduce data throughput for a small fraction of our customers who have excessive or disproportionate usage that interferes with our network performance or our ability to provide quality service to all of our customers.

We removed the 1GB soft limit from our policy statement, and we are confident that T-Mobile G1 customers will enjoy the high speed of data access over our 3G network. The specific terms for our new data plans are still being reviewed and once they are final we will be certain to share this broadly with current customers and potential new customers.”