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T-Mobile Will Introduce New “Unlimited” Data Plan That’s Actually Unlimited
So who will be switching over? I probably am since I currently have the $30/5GB plan and it seems like a no brainer. Great to see T-Mobile do this.
I will be.
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Don't they charge a $250 migration fee or something absurd, every time you change your plan?
You are right though:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...pcs-cut-rates-on-unlimited-plans-in-price-war
I'll be switching I don't care about thetering
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I wonder if theyll offer this plan for the monthly 4g prepaid consumers. That would be nuts!
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Is that $30 on top of the data plan? Or is it all together $30? Idk if I'm wording this correctly lol
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shehade08 said:
Is that $30 on top of the data plan? Or is it all together $30? Idk if I'm wording this correctly lol
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It appears it will be free if you already have the unlimited (5GBP)(like me). It says upgrade to unlimited from 2gb for $10. Thats $30
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Probably in preparation for the I phone 5 launch.
I have a question though. Let's say we got the truely unlimited plan can we still use the tethering option in cm10 without getting caught?
Hopefully they just add $5 more to the 30/monthly 4G plan.
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I just hope tmobile's network will be able to take the hit from all of us data hogs + the new ones who will be making the switch. That's the only thing that worries me because it would suck to be on an unlimited data plan that only crawls along web pages and streaming.
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Sometimes I need to tether my nexus 7 so I'm not sure about switching. Is tethering via usb the same as via Wi-Fi?
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Docavelli said:
Sometimes I need to tether my nexus 7 so I'm not sure about switching. Is tethering via usb the same as via Wi-Fi?
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Just root and use Wifi tether for Root users and no one will ever find out you're using your S3 as a hotspot.
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Just root and use Wifi tether for Root users and no one will ever find out you're using your S3 as a hotspot.
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I'm not very versed in tethering but I read that tmo was still catching tethering on the "back end"??? So they are able to see it anyway.
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I'm not very versed in tethering but I read that tmo was still catching tethering on the "back end"??? So they are able to see it anyway.
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there's a way to do it never fear. They can't catch SH$#
I was a little bummed that I left sprint after 9 years and was missing my sprint unlimited everything and have been keeping a good eye on my usage now with TMO so I dont go over. Now I'm really glad I switched over. Currently on the value $64.99 (500 min, unltd texts, and 5gb data) plan and from the looks of it I'll be paying $5 more to get the unlimited everything. Cant wait for the 5th! The plus side of Tmo is I get 4g speeds in 99% places I go and didnt have to wait for LTE to roll out for sprint.
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I'm not very versed in tethering but I read that tmo was still catching tethering on the "back end"??? So they are able to see it anyway.
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I tether to my Transformer Prime and laptop everyday...and never gotten a msg from T-mobile about tethering usage.
I'm on T-mobile's Monthly 4G Prepaid $30/month plan btw. No contracts no headaches.
babymatteo said:
I tether to my Transformer Prime and laptop everyday...and never gotten a msg from T-mobile about tethering usage.
I'm on T-mobile's Monthly 4G Prepaid $30/month plan btw. No contracts no headaches.
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Nothing is forever and no guarantee that just cause you're not notified everyone else will be as lucky. Out of curiosity are you getting throttled when you reach your cap?
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T-Mobile Will Introduce New “Unlimited” Data Plan That’s Actually Unlimited
So who will be switching over? I probably am since I currently have the $30/5GB plan and it seems like a no brainer. Great to see T-Mobile do this.
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Now we're talking!
I love free markets and competition!!!! :thumbup:
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Customer retention can offer you unlimited 5GB data for $20 (this does not have the tethering option) and it can be added now, no need to wait till the 5th. They only have the 5GB plan, i already asked about the 2GB for $10 and they said they don't have that offer. I didn't take this option even though it is $10 cheaper (I currently have the grandfathered unlimited data & text for $35) cause I always find myself tethering my laptop or tablet during travel when the hotel wireless is spotty.
I just got the 5 gig from retention but the rep states that I still will only have a five gig cap is this true? or does he know what he's talking about? I'm thinking he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. But got that plan from retention for 20 bucks a month
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arodhr13 said:
I just got the 5 gig from retention but the rep states that I still will only have a five gig cap is this true? or does he know what he's talking about? I'm thinking he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. But got that plan from retention for 20 bucks a month
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If you received the preferred android data plan then yes it will have the soft cap of 5 GB a month then slows down to 2G speeds.
Hey guys, got a couple of questions hopefully you can help me with. I've moved out into the country and there is hardly any ISP's out here. Only ones being the satellite ones. With that being said, I have verizon unlimited data for 2 more years and I was wondering, if I plan on using this as a daily driver for tethering on my computer, can I call verizon and tell them I'd like to pay $ a month for tethering? Isn't it like $20? Would I be limited on how much data I can tether? I'm trying to do this the right way if possible, I don't want them to cut me off or anything like that.
i JUST got 4g signal today at my home (guessing they updated one of the towers out here
Thanks!
You should be fine tethering on unlimited w/o a tethering plan. Verizon actually got in trouble with the FTC for blocking it on LTE. I do it all the time.
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Smokeey said:
You should be fine tethering on unlimited w/o a tethering plan. Verizon actually got in trouble with the FTC for blocking it on LTE. I do it all the time.
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Alright, I'm guessing your rooted correct? While I'm gone my wife will have to be using her 4g but she does not want me to root her phone so were using an app, thats mainly why I was asking. Thanks for your reply!
Try tethering using FoxFi from the play store. See if that works ok for you.
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Smokeey said:
You should be fine tethering on unlimited w/o a tethering plan. Verizon actually got in trouble with the FTC for blocking it on LTE. I do it all the time.
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Incorrect. What the FCC slapped them on the wrist for is having third party tethering apps blocked in the Play Store. Per the FCC, Verizon is still permitted to charge C block (LTE) customers on an unlimited plan a separate tethering fee, regardless if they use a third party app or not. What they are not permitted to do is have third party apps blocked from the Play Store, or charge tiered customers for tethering.
For those still on unlimited plans, everything, save for apps no longer being blocked, remains the same as it was before. If they somehow detect your tethering, they can charge you for a tethering plan or drop you altogether.
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Try tethering using FoxFi from the play store. See if that works ok for you.
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This is what I use (and I am not rooted).
Recently I have been getting an extremely unreliable 4g connection and my 3g connection isn't much better. I called Sprint several times but they offered me no resolution except to "feel free to roam until we fix the towers in your area". So I turned off 4g and set my phone to automatically allow roaming. This month I had to download nearly 80 GB of images off of a cloud service because my subscription was about to expire. Right now my only internet connection is through my phone, so I tethered it to my PC in order to download the files.
It turns out I was roaming the entire time and I have roamed around 97.4 GB in my most recent billing cycle. Do you think they are going to terminate my contract? Or do you think I will get off with a warning?
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Recently I have been getting an extremely unreliable 4g connection and my 3g connection isn't much better. I called Sprint several times but they offered me no resolution except to "feel free to roam until we fix the towers in your area". So I turned off 4g and set my phone to automatically allow roaming. This month I had to download nearly 80 GB of images off of a cloud service because my subscription was about to expire. Right now my only internet connection is through my phone, so I tethered it to my PC in order to download the files.
It turns out I was roaming the entire time and I have roamed around 97.4 GB in my most recent billing cycle. Do you think they are going to terminate my contract? Or do you think I will get off with a warning?
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Holy crap dude! That's a lot of pr0n!
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Holy crap dude! That's a lot of pr0n!
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lol.. I would never pay for porn, never mind subscribe to a cloud service to store it.
How did you download that much on that God forsaken 3g
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How did you download that much on that God forsaken 3g
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I was actually getting unusually fast 3g speeds. I think I was roaming on Verizon's network and there is a tower very close to me.
If you were in Europe your carrier would charge you a mere $237,000 dollars for that!
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If you were in Europe your carrier would charge you a mere $237,000 dollars for that!
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haha true! I am originally from Australia and long ago a friend of mine got charged $500 odd for roaming a few MB when travelling abroad.
lol, holy sh!t! You better hope they don't lol, but you'll find out soon enough.
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Tethering? yes
posting this here VIA the tether? yes
Good luck to you!
I say this because extreme roaming data usage will grab attention and they will sort through IP's, just letting you know that as it just happened to my cousin. He hit 78G in data roaming and they found out he was using his phone for PC gaming while on vacation. And yep he is paying for it right now.
How is that even possible? I've been told if over half of your usage is roaming you will be disconnected. Even though Sprint claims roaming is unlimited.
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How is that even possible? I've been told if over half of your usage is roaming you will be disconnected. Even though Sprint claims roaming is unlimited.
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it's in terms and conditions of the contact. They hold the right for excessive roaming.
And if they determine that you're tethering without paying, they'll claim fraud.
Not that I care, just the lil lady works for sprint and sees it frequently.
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They told you to roam, throw it in their face haha
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They might have told you it was okay to roam but if you don't pay for tethering you could be charged for excessive data usage and tethering.
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reddragon72 said:
Tethering? yes
posting this here VIA the tether? yes
Good luck to you!
I say this because extreme roaming data usage will grab attention and they will sort through IP's, just letting you know that as it just happened to my cousin. He hit 78G in data roaming and they found out he was using his phone for PC gaming while on vacation. And yep he is paying for it right now.
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I thought they weren't allowed to annoy you about using tethering apps without paying for it?
Wasn't there a court case on this a while ago?
that case was for blocking apps. doesn't mean you don't still have to adhere to TOS and pay for tethering.
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Wait, the worst that can happen is they terminate my contract right? What is this talk of having to pay for it?
They could charge you for tethering plus all the data you used.
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They could charge you for tethering plus all the data you used.
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Doubt it. The Sprint website says you have unlimited roaming 3g so the amount roaming should be irrelevant. Don't admit to tethering.
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You don't get what I am saying... If you do not pay for tethering, and your use this much data, they could charge you for the data used.
I don't see how you think it is okay to use that amount of data tethering to another device when you do not pay for tethering on your account.
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Wait, the worst that can happen is they terminate my contract right? What is this talk of having to pay for it?
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Oh no they'll cancel you contract when you don't pay that big bill. But yes you will have to pay for services rendered which is tethering and data used beyond the 5gigs given for tethering.
But like I said earlier carriers are not stupid and they will come after you and they know places lime this and could link your statement here as proof bit they really won't need that once they drop the IP bomb that will tell them what devices where used via your phone. Trust me they can tell but no system.is bullet proof so they cannot block it as some apps pull info via desktop browsers calls and a blanket block would kill those. So they just tag all the over the top users, especially when roaming is envolved.
I'm on the $70 prepaid monthly with T-Mobile and I'm at over 15GB of high-speed data with no throttle/cap/dreaded EDGE default. Also, my phone (GSM Galaxy Nexus) operates at 2G, 3G, AND 4G. The downside to this excellence is T-Mobile does not allow tethering for the $70/unlimited plan (sad face). I asked them why and they simply responded with: "If you'd like to use the tether and hotspot services, you need to downgrade your plan from unlimited to [x amount of GB]… once you've reached/exceeded x amount of GB, you will be throttled." My phone's "high-speed internet" is my computer's as well -- since I have no ISP (sigh) -- so I have to tether, but I REFUSE to be throttled like some insubordinate child. I've been using some app called Orbot along with PDANet to hide my tethering activities from T-Mobile, but it's only USB-tether that is hidable (epic sad face). Also, every so often it'll shut off (in the middle of WHATEVER you're doing) and prompt you to restart the service -- how annoying. If anyone knows of any ways to resolve/work around this issue, please respond to this or send me a PM ASAP.
Thanks in advance!
Dee
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Same problem here
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Same problem here
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I guess no one has a fix for it.
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Stop being so cheap. Either live with the hacked way you've been doing it or suck it up and pay for an isp or tethering plan.
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Stop being so cheap. Either live with the hacked way you've been doing it or suck it up and pay for an isp or tethering plan.
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I asked for fixes, not backlash, dude. You don't know a person's circumstances to tell them to "stop being so cheap." You should work on your communication skills. And have you misread what I typed? I cannot get a tethering plan with the plan I'm on with T-Mobile ($70 unlimited). I'd pay for an ISP if I were able to, but I cannot (hence my post...). The way that I'm doing it is okay, I guess. I probably need to find a way to stop my phone from getting so daggone hot when using PDAnet's tethering, though.
Last question to you, dude: do you know of any threads that teach everything about kernels (how to configure them for optimum performance; how to determine whether it's better suited for, or compatible with, a specific ROM [like ParanoidAndroid 3.0, for example]; the basics; etc.)? Also, do you know which is the best for a heavy, heavy user (my screen is always on and my phone is always in my hand)?
Thanks in advance,
Dee.
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How do you guys feel about this happening...now it really makes the contracts pointless now...just get it all on prepaid
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They should make em suffer with wimax.
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They're shifting everyone to LTE - I think - to try and start taking down WiMax in some of these markets. I'll be interested to see if any new devices will be able to use the Clear band anytime soon.
All in all will be an interesting year for Sprint. If the deals go their way they may be in nice shape for the rest of the CY.
Only devices using wimax now are the multi band hotspots and clears routers/hotspots. No new wimax phones are being produced, but older stock maybe rebranded a la the epic touch on boost and vm
I like to break stuff!
I used to work for boost.. To this day customer service sucks... Virgin is the worst though
Even my service provider cricket wireless is becoming 4G. And it started with the wackest phones 4 years ago while sprint. Was claiming they had it . And had better smartphones. Now cricket has the s3. And is going 4G LTE this year. Not even sprint is that Fast
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chuko303 said:
Even my service provider cricket wireless is becoming 4G. And it started with the wackest phones 4 years ago while sprint. Was claiming they had it . And had better smartphones. Now cricket has the s3. And is going 4G LTE this year. Not even sprint is that Fast
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Then again, I had Cricket not too long ago (switched from Cricket to Sprint when I got the Note 2 on opening day) with my EVO 3D and they make you pay for each GB of data per month.
I had 2GB and was paying 60 a month. It sucked when the data speeds slowed.
Think it was an extra ten for another GB.
In actuality, their data is not unlimited.
I called and complained to them stating I thought everything was unlimited and they said, "well, not that."
Lol.
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So if Virgin and Boost gets lte what's the point of staying with Sprint... Only to get the latest phones?
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So if Virgin and Boost gets lte what's the point of staying with Sprint... Only to get the latest phones?
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This!!!!! That's exactly what I'm saying right here!!!! I'll pass on the latest and greatest if I can spend possibly $40 a month (boost) and still get everything
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I guess it depends on the plan you have too. I have a family plan with 6 lines on a 1500min everything data account. So I pay $230mo after taxes for 2iphones,my GN2 and 3 dumb phones to get unlimited data, text and the shared minutes. I can't beat that on pre pay yet.
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Subsidized phones. That's the main difference.
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Is LTE authenticated through meid number?
If we use an Lte boost phone as a donor, will the note also have Lte enabled?
KB112 said:
I guess it depends on the plan you have too. I have a family plan with 6 lines on a 1500min everything data account. So I pay $230mo after taxes for 2iphones,my GN2 and 3 dumb phones to get unlimited data, text and the shared minutes. I can't beat that on pre pay yet.
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I thought the max number of lines you can have on a Sprint account is 5? But I can see your point.
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I thought the max number of lines you can have on a Sprint account is 5? But I can see your point.
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You can have as many lines as your approved for. In have seem unlimited on a few accts. Most accts are 10 though.
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I thought the max number of lines you can have on a Sprint account is 5? But I can see your point.
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Yes the limit is 5 on one plan. I got a supervisor to approve adding a 6th line for me.
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You can have as many lines as your approved for. In have seem unlimited on a few accts. Most accts are 10 though.
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Yes I am authorized for 10 plus lines on my "account". But the limit per "plan" is supposed to be only 5 lines. So you can have 2 plans with 5 lines each, but not 10 on one plan. Unless you open a business plan.
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Yes the limit is 5 on one plan. I got a supervisor to approve adding a 6th line for me.
Yes I am authorized for 10 plus lines on my "account". But the limit per "plan" is supposed to be only 5 lines. So you can have 2 plans with 5 lines each, but not 10 on one plan. Unless you open a business plan.
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I got ya. The post was a little misunderstood. I thought he was talking account, not share plan.
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Cricket wireless has the best plan then any cell phonw provider. There new plans include. $60 for 2gb+free tethering and $70 for 5GB of data and tethering is it worth an extra 10? I think so lol
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chuko303 said:
Cricket wireless has the best plan then any cell phonw provider. There new plans include. $60 for 2gb+free tethering and $70 for 5GB of data and tethering is it worth an extra 10? I think so lol
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What's the point of tethering without unlimited
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"if you don't like sprint (and or price changes that are stated to change at anytime in the contract THAT YOU SIGNED!!!!) then you can giiiit oouuutt"
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"if you don't like sprint (and or price changes that are stated to change at anytime in the contract THAT YOU SIGNED!!!!) then you can giiiit oouuutt"
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Lol, let me just own you in 3 points
1. re-read the title of my thread
2. Re-read the SPRINT part of my sign
3. Don't try to quote my sig without any knowledge or proper grounds of it
Now I'll quote my avatar for you
YOU LOSE!!! GOOD DAY SIR!
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