T-Mobile USA removes 1 GB cap from G1’s data plan

T-Mobile USA Inc. has erased the worrisome fine print on the data-usage agreement related to its recently announced G1 phone, which the carrier unveiled with Google Inc. and HTC Corp. earlier this week.
At the launch, T-Mobile USA outlined the unlimited data plans priced at $35 and $25 for the device, but in the fine print the carrier warned that “if your total data usage in any billing cycle is more than 1 GB, your data throughput for the remainder of that cycle may be reduced to 50 kbps or less.”
With a full Web browser and music download capabilities, data use for the G1 could well quickly exceed that limit.
T-Mobile amended the user agreement late yesterday, removing the speed penalty.
“We removed the 1 GB 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 carrier said in a statement. “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 all customers”
The G1 will be available on Oct. 22 for $180. Designed to run on the T-Mobile USA’s 3G network, the carrier is frantically rushing to launch 3G in new markets. The carrier is set to reach 27 metro areas by the end of the year.
The G1 is the first phone to feature Google’s mobile software platform, dubbed Android.