T-Mobile continues its push into home internet and is now offering a new way to sign up for the service: as a backup option.
The company is offering new home network backup plans, starting at $30 per month (including autopay discounts), designed to supplement your wired or fiber-optic network connection in the event of an outage. This may seem handy if your network goes down a lot! But for most people, that may seem like overkill, especially considering that most T-Mobile cell phone plans already come with a lot of mobile hotspot data.
Like T-Mobile’s standard home Internet service, the backup plan comes with a gateway router that connects to T-Mobile’s cellular data network. The backup network plan provides up to 130GB of 5G data per month, which the T-Mobile website says is “enough to keep a typical household connected to Wi-Fi seven days a month.” Depending on your primary router, you can set T-Mobile Wi-Fi to automatically fall back when the connection to your primary network is lost.
Definitely useful – but probably only appealing to a small group of people. For most people, switching to a mobile hotspot when the network goes down isn’t a huge burden, and even T-Mobile’s basic Essentials plan comes with it Some Hot data. If you just want to stay connected, you already have options. But if your primary network goes down a lot of And if you need a stronger connection than a cell phone hotspot can provide, maybe the $30 per month is worth it.
T-Mobile’s home network backup plans will go on sale tomorrow, June 6th.
