Data usage among mobile subscribers is not always the same every month. And yet, most carriers still charge us the same amount, whether or not you’ve used up all your data allocation, which sometimes seems a little too unfair. Storing your data is an option that only very few carriers offer, and T-Mobile is at the forefront when it comes to this. Now they’re offering even prepaid subscribers the option to do so with the Data Stash for Simple Choice prepaid subscribers.
The prepaid subscribers will also get a 10GB Start Stash so that you can start “saving up” your data allocation for each month so that if the time comes when you would need a heavy amount of data, then you’ve saved some for a rainy day. The Simply Prepaid plans have three tiers. The lowest is at $40/month with 1GB data/month at 4G LTE speeds. Next is a $50/month with 3GB and the last one is $60/month with 5GB allocation before they start throttling data. Technically, all the T-Mobile plans have “unlimited” data but they start throttling your data when you’ve reached your data allocation.
Data Stash lets you store your LTE speed data so that when you’ve used up your current allocation, you can use your stash so you won’t be throttled. You begin banking data when you’ve used up all the 10GB in your starter stash. You can store it for 12 months before you can start “peeling it off” and then all the unused data just rolls over onto your next month’s allocation.
This is a great move for T-Mobile and is one of the rare moments when a carrier would place the same importance with both their prepaid and postpaid subscribers. The prepaid data stashing begins this March 22.
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You are describing simply prepaid plans, those are different than simple choice prepaid. Simple choice prepaid is what T-Mobile says is getting data stash. There is no mention of simply prepaid getting data stash