What is the best unlimited Data / cell phone provider

Well Verizon will be getting back into the unlimited side as of 2/13/17 at 6am ET

 

But only up to 22gigs. After that you take your chance on throttle. And being bottom of the barrel for service

 

Ive been with ATT for 15+ years. Never had any real problems. Im not saying they are better, just that Im happy.
As for unlimited data, how much do you need? Im a local driver so there are times I'll sit for hours waiting at the port or loading/unloading and I dont go over 3 gigs a month. I YouTube like crazy.

 

Thats not entirely true.

I just switched to Verizon's unlimited plan.

This is how it was explained to me and you can read this on the Verizon website. It explains openly in detail how the unlimited plan works.

If you go over 22 gigs and are in a congested area (Think large city) your data line may get temporarily reduced to 3G speed during peak congestion and then back to 4G speeds. It would be done on the fly and in most cases people would not even notice. Bare in mind that 3G on Verizon will still be 2.5 - 5 mbit. Thats hardly what I would call slow or bottom of the barrel. Still perfectly capable of watching 1080p HD Netflix.

I have not noticed any difference in quality off service. Hotspot works the same,.. everything else works the same.

Talk about being a hater,.. geeze.

Stick with Sprint. They are more your speed.

Hurst

 

I went off the article I read.

I don't hate. I have service now where I haven't for awhile now.

I always watched Netflix in the lowest bandwidth. 1080 would have eaten my allotment in 2 nights.

 

Maybe I am mistaken,.. but I thought you said you had unlimited data?

Hurst

 

Hey Sprint user here , Been with Sprint since 2001 so I'm not going anywhere. Also I probably use more Data than most so theres that. True sprint users aren't use to being limited with there data. and I hardly keep track of how much I use.

While I use Sprint and like there service it has its faults .( Ive also worked for a company that give out Verizon Business phones for 3years ) . First I find that Sprint towers and signals are short and fat , while the have plenty of girth. You really have to be climbing the tower to get exceptional bandwidth. I pull into PFJ looking to get as close to the tower as possible. Sprint if you can see the towers your bandwidth should be good .On the flip side Verizon Signals seem long and skinny while they penetrate deep it didn't seem to have much girth behind it. Basically the bandwidth would perk at a mediocre level. But you could easily be 20mi from a tower a get good service. (Carrier aggregation has change much this )

Second Sprints Cell bands sux they don't penetrate well and they seem optimized poorly . They bounce around to much , Sprint uses 3 bands 25 26 and 41. Inevitable you get stuck slimming down the 41 , but it wont penetrate deep enough. While 25 26 have less girth the seem to ..... ahh you know

Also we use to just switch over to Verizon when we left the beaten path, with force roam. I haven't seen that successfully mimicked in a while. It also stopped the bouncing around with Sprints notoriously bad hand off. ....smh

http://imgur.com/a/tYxkY

 

I have att unlimited since they brought it back months ago with DIRECTV.

They say throttle for people who were using hotspot back in the day as "home internet" downloading movies using 500 gig a month.

I have 6 lines and a iPad all unlimited and basically we all avg 150 gig month me using about 65 of it myself due to my 4 Day turn I'm on. I have never seen slow speeds ever. I speed tested it during super bowl in LA where surely enough people are using data in the area on their phones and it still runs 25-30mbps on the download.

I've never seen it throttled... you should be good to go

 

That was in relation to a story I read and pertains to Verizon. Apparently the story is off base. And I don't have Verizon or att.

 

6 days into new billing cycle.

Already at 16gb data usage. Netflix, Hulu and Amazon video all set to max viewing quality.

Currently parked at the Walmart in Moultrie, Ga. 4 bars of signal. This is clearly not being cutback to 3g,.. or any kind of throttling.



Also,. my new bill for March is only $51. Pro-rated because I switched to unlimited before previous billing cycle was over. Lets see,.. $180 for 40gb of data plus insurance and additional cloud space, or $98 for unlimited data and the same? Took me less than 10 mins to read through everything and decided to switch over.

This is the cats meow for me.

Hurst