Sprint drops "truly unlimited" policy and raises data rates $10

I switched to straight talk with Verizon via tracfone from walmart. 5 gb goes real quick for me.. Ive got to set limits and watch what I do now. I'm not real happy with it.. I also have sprint but thats a story I don't have time for right now

 

That's great news.

I'm paying like $75/month for my Unlimited Data Line on VZW
450 min no texts (blocked).
Guess it's gonna go up some.. Oh well I'm not giving it up.

 

verizon is doing somewhat the same thing.... adding $20 a month but no throttling.... i use 50 PLUS gb a month... right now i pay $59 a month but next month it goes up to $79

btw stright talk doesn't work in a lot of places the REAL verizon does

 

I"m looking at my sprint bill. and it says $30 monthly plan cost. unlimited everything. that would be a $30 price drop from what i was paying.

HOWEVER, my bill, which was paid in full 29 days ago of $144. For almost 3 months of service. This month says i owe $148.

Maybe i've been switched to quartly billing now. since that's how often i've been paying the bill.

 

Sprint is on a big expansion plan. I'd imagine they need to recoup the cost somehow. I didn't think the cheapest rate they've ever offered would last long. But even 70 is still cheaper then what I was paying before I hit the road almost 5 years ago.

 

I looked into T-Mobile unlimited plan and its $80 a month (assume higher with taxes and fees) ... Was hoping it was cheaper but seems that the same plan, if available, from Verizon would now be the same at $80/month.

I wish I could stay within Verizon's network but at $100 for 8 Gb of data looks like T-Mobile is going to gain a customer.

 

I've seen folks rent legacy Verizon hotspot lines that never get throttled. Verizon is honoring the truly unlimited data plan. I haven't tried it because I think it's $300/month.

 

T-Mobile has this policy as well but in 4 years I've only been throttled like 3 times. 2 of those were in Atlanta. There is an easy work around though. Simply change your network connection from 4G LTE to just 4G and it puts you on another tower. I routinely use 50 to 60 gigs a month.

 

Nice Tip... I will try to remember that. Thanks.

And please correct me if I am wrong but I am under the impression that T-Mobile doesn't do much "Throttle" you as much as they just lower your "Priority" on the network. So it only happens with you are over a certain Gb and others on the tower are competing for bandwidth. Once they are out of the way, then you are back up to the max.

But I might have misunderstood that too.