Is att unlimited plan capped?

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I was just wondering because I was reading that verizon is capped @ 5gb. Don't understand how that could have been marketed as an unlimited plan but whatever.

 

[tivoboy]

currently

Currently, the AT&T unlimited plans are not capped, but it could happen at any time.

 

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How can they just do that
If they did wouldn't that void any contract I have with them?

 

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How can they just do that
If they did wouldn't that void any contract I have with them?

No, in the fine print

 

[zmulleni]

In July I chewed through 8.9GB's of data and have averaged 4.2 GB's over the last six months. Yes I'm literally on my phone all the time as I need it for work but to answer your question I personally have never encountered a cap.

They may start to throttle heavy data users though as it's common practice throughout carriers now and days.

To answer above: you may have leniency as far as ETF's are concerned if they alter or change your contract but it is legal form them to change or alter at anytime.

 

[rjohnstone]

The unlimited plan has never been capped.

A few idiots with reading comprehension issues read the Data Connect plan terms and confused them with the iPhone Unlimited plan.
That is how the whole 5GB thing started.

The Data Connect Unlimited plans had soft caps at 5GB where your usage "could" be restricted if it was deemed excessive.

The iPhone Unlimited plans never had this provision.

 

[menist]

Its not capped, but if you go over 5GB month to month, they will cap your speed. Thats all they could do.

 

[fjrabon]

There have been threats to throttle, that is slow down the speed of the top users, but from everything I've seen, they've only allegedly sent those threats to people who use like 11GB per month.

 

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So for all you grandfathered unlimited guys. When LTE is the norm will you switch to a tiered plan? I doubt the unlimited will cover 4G

 

[fjrabon]

Its not capped, but if you go over 5GB month to month, they will cap your speed. Thats all they could do.

From what I've seen/heard, it's not an actual hard number, it's x percentage of users, and AT&T said they'd even stop doing that if it culled the top 5% down to a reasonable amount of data. I know people who have used 6GB and never got the infamous throttle thread texts.

 

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So for all you grandfathered unlimited guys. When LTE is the norm will you switch to a tiered plan? I doubt the unlimited will cover 4G

 

[fjrabon]

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So for all you grandfathered unlimited guys. When LTE is the norm will you switch to a tiered plan? I doubt the unlimited will cover 4G

eh, hard to say, though it has migrated from Edge to 3G to HPSA+, so I don't see why they wouldn't grandfather it in for LTE as well.

The big thing is that they won't let you tether with the unlimited plan.

 

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Which can be easily fixed with a jailbreak

 

[rjohnstone]

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So for all you grandfathered unlimited guys. When LTE is the norm will you switch to a tiered plan? I doubt the unlimited will cover 4G

They currently let you keep it if you switch to a 4G Android phone.
But that can change at any moment.

 

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I think even then 3G will be fine for me. I mean my fios at
Home is only 20Mbps I don't think I'll need a phone that's faster than my home network lol