Has ping / tracert been blocked on 5g network?

Ping and Trace Route both leverage ICMP to function so it just makes sense that both fail. I would guess with a VPN open both would work fine. It is hard to say what T-Mobile will do next with their solution. I have been getting more apprehensive since the gateway has now transitioned from the n71 to the n41 frequency. I have seen so many reports of users on the n41 where the throttling T-Mobile does pretty much cripples the cell beyond use. The prioritization for mobile handsets over the home gateways and the extra client loading in the urban locations just seems to be a bad mess. On the bright side my speeds have doubled or better on downloads much of the time. 

Choking the ICMP traffic as they have makes no sense to me. Bad move. I used ports 8080 and 443 pinging and it still behaves the same. It looks like they just throttled ICMP to death. For users that do much more than check email, browser the web, or stream a few select services they will eventually jump ship and get another solution that is more reliable and capable.