It all depends on where you are. By me, AT&T is like that often, and Verizon is solid.
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Verizon Launches $75 mmWave 5G Plan for Prepaid Customers
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At first my thought was anger that Verizon would charge more for 5G, which they INCESSANTLY brag about in their ads, but then I realized this is pertaining to PREPAID plans. Ugh it's so dumb how confusing and convoluted the wireless market is in the US.
No worries, because mmWave is absolutely useless unless you're outside standing on top of a city bus with your phone high up in the air.
While lower latency are higher network capacity can be significant, they are too abstract for most users, especially those satisfied with current 4G coverage and performance.
5G is much faster than my Wi-Fi, I would want to tether my phone and use it to download large files.
Yep, my phone bill is $9 USD where I live, no 5G yet, but consistent LTE+ (200-300 Mbps) and unlimited VOLTE, SMS, etc.
Besides being home on fiber most of the time, I cant see myself ever paying extra to maybe download or stream content perhaps a millisecond faster, god-willing.
5G might enable new use cases for self-driving vehicles, remote surgery or whatever the marketing speech might be nowdays, for the limited things you can do on a phone's screen (video streaming, video conferencing, casual gaming, short multimedia file download/upload), LTE+ is not just already plenty fast but also readily available. And is dirt-cheap in most of the world/outside the US.
Using your phone regularly as a home modem to tether 5G seems like a bad idea as well, not just would be battery cycling/killing your phone permanently but surely shortening the device's life. You might want to invest on a proper 5G modem in that case.
I just dont see this border-line use cases some people imagine they might enjoy while they're being let down left & right by higher tariffs, worst battery life & more heat for short bursts of panoramic disappointment. 5G just doesnt make sense on smartphones.
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Wow, that sucks. I'm on T-mobile and get 5G for free. (It's functioning well in my downtown location). Def wouldn't be spending $10 on this if I were with Verizon.
My fiber optic home internet has unlimited data where it comes at the speed I expect it to each time. So, if Verizon were to offer that, what would they call it?
We are talking cellular service.
Unlimited data does not necessarily mean unlimited speed with the cellular carriers. Thy even talk about that in the TOS. Too many people here equate unlimited data as being unlimited speed. And that is wrong.
Is this something a future iOS update could enable for existing iPhone 12 models? I'm not asking if Apple is likely to do it but just if it's technically possible or instead requires hardware changes.
Did carriers charge customers a premium to use faster 4G LTE over 3G back when that translation happened? I’d save the extra $120 a year since both Verizon and AT&T have terrible 5G in metropolitan Boston areas. Heck AT&T’s coverage as a whole is spotty on the North Shore area.
Even if they gave it to me (prepaid att) for free, I would switch it off to save power. LTE is more than enough.
Reminder that there is absolutely no reason the 5G plan should cost more considering that most Americans already overpay for their existing LTE cell service. Cell providers (Verizon, AT&T, etc.) and internet providers (Comcast, etc.) are scum and need to be heavily regulated immediately if not nationalized.
It's funny how they're calling it "unlimited" but then they actually apply "limits" in the form of speed... 
Instead of giving you ultra-fast 5G speeds until you hit your cap and then reduce your speeds to unusable 2G kilobit speeds...
How about they just give you medium speeds... ALL THE TIME...
Or... maybe they should just get rid of caps and speed-limits because they are complete BS...
Instead of giving you ultra-fast 5G speeds until you hit your cap and then reduce your speeds to unusable 2G kilobit speeds...
How about they just give you medium speeds... ALL THE TIME...
Or... maybe they should just get rid of caps and speed-limits because they are complete BS...
Right, but the article is about Verizon and they way the post was worded, it sounded like OP wanted Verizon to fix the issue. Hence my response.
I think (perhaps motivated by the carriers) the whole terminology has been turned upside down, there's not such thing as unlimited speed (Im sure the speed will never go above say 50 Gbps), they surely mean you dont get the full (but otherwise very limited) speed all of the time, so its not so much as unlimited speed but unlimited time enjoying the actual speed they market to you (and then small-texted in the contract).
Being speed capped for a number of reasons (poor carrier availability/unsufficient anthenas at a given time, third-world data allowances, etc) seems to be something common to US telcoms and very much a novel concept elsewhere.
Verizon had revenues of $132 billion in 2019 for an operating income of over $30 billion. Verizon’s portion of that $4.7 billion is a drop in the bucket, especially when amortized over years.
Exactly. Verizon takes de-prioritization of prepaid customers to an extreme compared to other carriers. Still priced too high. Switched a couple months ago from Verizon to AT&T Unlimited Elite for $75/mo with FAN discount, includes HBO Max.
Comparing apples to apples, AT&T prepaid unlimited plus for $60/mo w/ auto pay is a much better deal than this new Verizon plan.
My wife and I pay $28 total for 2GB on Spectrum. Without unlimited we find ourselves wasting less time when out and saving $1000 a year or more. If we happen to go over 2GB, if vacations are ever a thing again, it’s $14 a gig all fees included.
It's a feature already enabled on certain models on day one: A2412 A2408 A2404.
So a software update for the rest of the iPhone 12 models is technically possible.
