T-Mobile no longer counts speed tests against your monthly data cap

Testing the download and upload speeds of your smartphone with apps like Speedtest will no longer count against your monthly data allowance on T-Mobile.

The carrier says similar apps intended to help customers gauge network performance have also been "whitelisted" and will add nothing to their data usage totals. In the past, T-Mobile has relied on user-initiated tests from Speedtest to back claims that it offers the fastest 4G LTE data service in the United States. Power users may appreciate the new policy, but net neutrality advocates are sure to hate it. Yet again, T-Mobile is giving special treatment to certain data traveling over its network. "So you actually think somebody would have a net neutrality issue with you giving it to them for free?" asked T-Mobile CEO John Legere. "I don't foresee the Uncarrier's issues and what we're doing with the industry being other than something that the proponents of net neutrality would really be supportive of."