I remember paying 80 cents per MINUTE just for mobile talk time. I can appreciate the very modest rate increases we are seeing now.
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Verizon to Cut Off Unlimited Data Customers Who Exceed 100GB of Usage Per Month
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well, i guess - the woman at the verizon stored lied to me, as i asked if there were any ways to avoid the fee.
There's the definition, and then there's actual real life that I referenced.
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Well, many of the employees wouldn't even know of such ways, and wouldn't really be allowed or at least would be discouraged from really talking about them as the company wants people to move away from those older plans.
Not sure anyone is advocating they break the terms of the contracts. But once the contract is up and they no longer offer such a plan, then its within reason they make you choose one of their currently offered plans. They are not obligated to grandfather said plans at all much less for eternity. But they did and are. Then a select few abuses it so they make a change. (yes >100gb for MOBILE data is abusing the network) But technically once the contract is up they are well within rights to make you choose a new plan. So be grateful they allowed folks to stay on their old ULD plans AFTER their contracts were up.
And the pizza deal up top is clearly a scam
Unlimited , 5 toppings lol no doubles. So you are not limited to which of the 5 toppings you want i guess.
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You misunderstood the point. Times have changed back when unlimited data was an offered plan and data was not nearly as used as it is these days. (the 20gb was for effect not fact point being no one would ever use 100GB of cellular data back then even though it was unlimited) Thats my point. And it WAS unlimited then never said otherwise. No qualms there. But if you are OUT OF CONTRACT then they are no longer obligated to grandfather the old, no longer offered, ULD plan. When the contract is over, well the contract is over and new terms can go into effect. The fact that they did allow folks to keep it was a plus but they could have just as easily on your last billing statement, at the END OF YOUR CONTRACT, stated " Your contract has been fulfilled and is now terminated. Next month you have to choose one of our current plans as the ULD is no longer offered." They didnt. But now they need to make changes due to some folks taking advantage of it. They CAN dictate what their plans will be and what they will cost. No one can sue them because they disagree with their business model. Again not talking about folks who ARE under contractual agreement. That's a different argument.
we have like 290 MILLION more people than you guys do, and more land mass, more lines, and more spectrum to cover more of the country. I'm sure that plays a role in price here.
I pay £26 a month on a rolling contract for what is called "All-you-can-eat" data on Three Mobile in the UK on 3G & 4G. They recently increased it from £18 a month for me. But compared to what i have read in this post it is an amazing deal.
Now they don't exactly say what the limit is on mobile use. Their give an example of 1TB each month being the most you could possible ever use.
"around 1000GB each month. We may use this cap...."
Source: What is all-you-can-eat.
I've never hit a limit so far. Watching netflix, amazon prime, even plex streaming from my nas while on my hour long commute on the train.
Tethering has a limit of 30GB included too. You use to pay £5 extra a month to have tethering enabled with a limit of 2GB.
A big negative is it is only 3G & 4G. No EDGE/GPRS access. So in the countryside the signal is rather lacking.
Now they don't exactly say what the limit is on mobile use. Their give an example of 1TB each month being the most you could possible ever use.
"around 1000GB each month. We may use this cap...."
Source: What is all-you-can-eat.
I've never hit a limit so far. Watching netflix, amazon prime, even plex streaming from my nas while on my hour long commute on the train.
Tethering has a limit of 30GB included too. You use to pay £5 extra a month to have tethering enabled with a limit of 2GB.
A big negative is it is only 3G & 4G. No EDGE/GPRS access. So in the countryside the signal is rather lacking.
Just took a look - up here a 2.5GB plan on Rogers starts at $50 per month (before their admin fees and taxes).
Back to the "unlimited" argument. I remember paying $75 a month for a 25MB BlackBerry plan in 2004. You could get "unlimited" for $100 a month (but, there was an asterisk beside the unlimited...a usage cap that you had to find in the fine print). We had one of our guys at work get a $1200 overage bill because he decided to be a smartass and tether his BB to his laptop and work from a patio one afternoon (think he was downloading movies?). Didn't end well.
Yes, the carriers do truly enjoy finding new ways to get more $ out of us, but to expect to keep these plans (and rack up TB of use) indefinitely is kinda foolish. The smart way to look at it is, what was the typical max usage you would see by people when you got the plan - if you're way over that today, you really should be expecting them to claw it back.
For some who have no option getting home internet and have to use mobile data, unlimited for a family is needed. As we go further into the future, more websites, movie and music streaming is more and more common, unlimited is a must! Schools are using mobile devices for homework. This century is dependent on Internet! I was fortunate to have unlimited with AT&T when I bought my original iPad and have been grandfathered. It has increased 5 dollars since which is still affordable. If they were to discontinue, I would drop that service in a a second. I think more companies need to offer an affordable unlimited plan and not be so greedy!
I don't believe these limits. More than one ISP including mine offer connecting to the internet through router that connects to the internet wireless using a chip exactly like the one in the smartphones. It gives loads of bandwidth. So why can't I have that loads of bandwidth(100s GBs!) in my phone? Currently there is an offer for $34 that will give you 60GB/month.
if you are interested look up CPE LTE in Google. Not in the US by the way, but the technology exists
Oh, I know that we have gateways that are designed for mobile usage (especially for rural areas that have no other option) - also to your point @dixicup. There need to be options for those in rural areas that don't have landline (cable, other copper or fibre) broadband available to them.
But, having an "unlimited" iPhone plan that isn't intended to include tethering, but using it as a virtual gateway, you shouldn't be surprised that the carriers try to pull it back.
And then you pay some other crazy prices for gas or something else that is completely cheap in US. Pricing for different things differ in different parts of the world. It's always been like this and doesn't really say anything about anything one way or another.
Why yes, yes you did. You, B4U, arrived at a restaurant that offers "All you can eat hot dogs". You go up to buffet line as they put out a tray of hot dogs, and the guy in front of you takes the whole tray, and he looks at you and says too bad, its unlimited hot dogs and laughs at you. The employee says don't worry, we'll make more. So, you sit down to wait for them to make more. As they put out another tray, you walk up and someone else gets there in front of you and takes the whole tray, while smirking at you saying too late, haha. But they say again, they'll make more...Only so many hot dogs to around, just like bandwidth. If all you greedy hot dog eaters hog all the bandwidth, everyone else eventually suffers...but as long as YOU get what you want, who cares, right?
I don't mind the extra $5/month for my unlimited AT&T plan; it's still a great bargain.
I've had my unlimited plan with AT&T since the first iPhone. While I do agree cutting people off after a certain amount violates the very definition of 'unlimited', if AT&T does end up canceling the unlimited plan, I won't look around: where I live they're about the only provider, certainly the only one with LTE, and the only one that allows simultaneous voice and data; all things that are very valuable to me.
No one forced Verizon to offer that to begin with.
They screwed themselves over and now decided to bait and switch.
Verizon no longer offers this package to new customers... and anyone who still has it is no longer on contract. That means Verizon can change the terms at will.
As bad as this sounds... this "bait and switch" is still a hell of a deal for 100GB at $50/mo for the few remaining grandfathered customers.
Everyone else only gets 4GB for $50/mo.
So who's screwing who?
And I've read reports of that feature being blocked if a person reaches a throttling threshold.
Regardless, there is zero Verizon signal at my house and in my home town.
If your data is blocked it makes sense, simultaneous voice and data wouldn't work. At my house, tmobile, att, verizon and sprint are equally bad. go a half of a mile and it's a different story; talking 4 bars all services.