Protests in Rotterdam over Turkish rally ban

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Protests in Rotterdam over Turkish rally ban

Protests erupted in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam late Saturday outside the Turkish consulate amid a row with Ankara after Dutch authorities banned the visits of Turkish ministers. More than 1,000 people waving Turkish flags gathered on the street leading to the consulate, AFP correspondents saw, as tensions rocketed over rallies abroad to help Ankara gain backing for an April referendum vote. There was a large police presence, but the crowd, many also sporting badges with the picture of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, remained largely calm, chanting and shouting.

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Photos of the day - March 11, 2017

Seppe Smits of Belgium competes during the Women’s Slopestyle Final in the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships 2017, in Sierra Nevada, Spain; Katie McCloughlin lies with Topsy, her English setter, during the Crufts dog show in Birmingham, Britain; displaced Iraqi get on a truck to be carried to a safe place, as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants in western Mosul, Iraq. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)

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T-Mobile adds more data to its unlimited plan before it starts throttling you

So far, 2017 has seen more changes to cellphone plans than the last five years before. In the space of a couple of weeks, all the big carriers suddenly started offering unlimited data plans for reasonable prices. AT&T even removed its ridiculous triple-play requirement for unlimited customers, which was generous.

For T-Mobile, which started the unlimited data trend last year, it didn't seem like things could get much better. But the entry of Verizon and AT&T forced it to remove the last real restrictions on the data plan, meaning that you can use hotspot data or watch HD video.

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But one thing all the unlimited plans have in common is a soft cap. Once you go over a monthly threshold of data usage, you're subject to being throttled at peak times. It's a "soft cap" rather than a data limit, because you aren't cut off from data, and there's no overage charge. Whichever way you slice it, though, it's still a limit of some kind.

For T-Mobile customers, that limit just went up. The threshold for throttling used to be 28GB per month, and that's now been raised to 30GB. If you hit that level of data usage in a month, you will be "deprioritized" at peak times. That means other customers will be given priority, and in crowded locations, that's going to mean your data slows way down.

The 2GB increase might not sound like much, but it moves T-Mobile way into first place for total data allowance. AT&T and Verizon put their cap at 22GB, while Sprint's at 23GB. Those are still generous allowances, and you're not guaranteed to have permanently slow internet after hitting the cap, but it's worth thinking about for particularly heavy data users.

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