[aikinai]

Sorry for the late reply. Yes, that is the plan I'm talking about, but the article is incorrect. They never closed the loophole; they completely opened it.

Anyone with the $5 plan actually has free access to any data connection; T-Mobile doesn't even try to separate it from the other data plans. The only problem is they don't officially offer it anymore.

I've heard some people have managed to convince customer service reps to turn it on from scratch by calling with their SIM in a feature phone and saying they want an old cheap data plan that would support their old cheap phone for doing simple online tasks.