We’ve at all times favored the thought of house web based mostly on 4G/5G, and T-Mobile steadily expanded its service to cowl “40M homes” final month, according to the company.

Yet, T-Mobile is able to increase its Home Internet Service to the entire nation or wherever it has a working wi-fi community with a barely totally different service known as Home Internet Lite.

That stated, there’s a caveat as a result of the Lite web service comes with utilization caps. It’s as a result of it’s extra akin to a big telephone information plan than a correct “Home Internet” plan as folks think about them.

The full-speed entry has caps of 100/150/200/300GB relying on how a lot you pay ($55/$80/$105 and $155). Based on the capability, that is fairly costly, and it’s not clear what the obtain/add speeds are.

That stated, relying in your location and wishes, it is likely to be sufficient for (very) fundamental Internet utilization. To offer you some context, a 720p zoom name makes use of 1GB per hour, according to zoom. Full-HD streaming from Netflix makes use of 3.1GB per hour.

If you go above your information cap, the connection received’t cease, however it’ll considerably decelerate to 128 Kbps, reminding you of 2002 wi-fi modems. That’s horrible speeds you usually get whereas roaming overseas, free of charge.

Clearly, T-Mobile’s Home Internet Lite isn’t as nice because the $50, no caps, normal T-Mobile Home Internet. That stated, it would make sense if there’s nothing higher round. As 5G protection grows, there’s a great opportunity to go from Lite to plain Home Internet.

Filed in Cellphones >Home. Read extra about Internet and T-Mobile. Source: cnet