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T-Mobile hopes you’ll buy $30 “Home Internet Backup” for when cable goes out

Backup plan is $30 every month for service that's meant to be used infrequently.

However, the T-Mobile backup plan is similar to the company's standard wireless home Internet service in that it uses a 5G gateway device to create a Wi-Fi network. T-Mobile confirmed to Ars today that if you cancel, you have to send the gateway back, and resubscribing would require paying the $35 connection charge again. Customers can use the service every day of the month if needed, and once their 130GB of data is used their speeds will be reduced to 600kbps until the start of their next billing cycle," T-Mobile told Ars.

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