Prepaid Plan: Whitelisted vs Data

Since no one has replied to confirm, I just wanted to follow up with an answer to help people in the future who search for an answer to whitelisted data.

I’ve been able to confirm by daily usage that “whitelisted data” doesn’t count towards the data used. If you want to confirm, it is pretty easy. Leave the data on for that day but have a baseline summary data usage (e.g., 10.45 MB at the start of the day). You will see that at any point during the day, the regular “data” will add to the data summary on top but will not include the “whitelisted data.”

Now I’m not exactly sure what whitelisted data is--I’m not that knowledgeable in this area--however, I think it is a type data interaction between the device and T-Mobile but it is not being counted towards normal usage data.

Nice to know. I’m new with this $10 Connect prepaid plan. And you are sure the MMS data sent doesn’t apply to regular data? I’m going to try a test send.

Do you know what the streaming music service that T-Mobile offers for free?

Thanks, gramps28. While the link to the web page seem to include prepaid plans, I’ll call just in case I ever use it.

I also tested an MMS attachment of a picture--it didn’t seem to have moved the data usage. Really good to know. It will be good to send attachments without concern that it may eat too much data--since I only have 1 GB.

If your 55+ Magenta Max plan has unlimited data, these whitelisted and regular data shouldn’t really be of concern. You get unlimited data anyway (subject to lower speeds after a certain amount). As was discussed, T-Mobile likely differentiated the two types of data to show which counted towards a user with a limited data plan. The whitelisted data appears to be just routine connection data necessary to “speak” with T-Mobile’s network while regular data is the connection between the customer’s apps, etc.