Nice Knowing You, Verizon

I believe ATT has been doing this. Not a lot of people go over 5GB of data. Instead of using ALL data, turn on WIFI.

It only applies at highly congested locations and when using data hungry features according to what I've read



I'm not unlimited anyway so I don't have a dog in the fight

I'm gonna have to be forced off my unlimited plan if I ever will be. I can't imagine not being able to use my phone as much as I need to whenever I need to. Especially for work when I get attachments on the reg that are up to 10mb. That'll eat through a 10GB monthly allowance in a week

I honestly thought Verizon had kicked people off the unlimited plan a long time ago.

What's your monthly data usage look like?

EDIT: nevermind, just saw it in your post above. That's a lot.

I know AT&T throttles after 5GB, but I think I've reached 5GB on my phone maybe once or twice. The way I see it, my wife and I could do one of the following:

A. Switch to one of the newer 10GB plans, which costs more than our current unlimited plan (including the cost of phones), and generally be completely fine with the data cap, but on the rare occasion we hit that cap, either stop using data that month or pay extra for overage.

B. Keep our current plan, and generally be fine with the data cap, but on the rare occasion we hit that cap, we continue to use data freely but at reduced speeds.


I understand the annoyance if you're hitting 4.5-5GB in the first 2 weeks of your billing cycle.

Also, I can't find any fine print about T-Mobile's $80 unlimited plan throttling you after a certain amount of data. I did read an article where the CEO mentioned a fair use policy that would only be put in effect if there was network congestion at particular times of day. There was no GB threshold associated with it. That would go against their recent "uncarrier" campaign, part of which criticizes the other carriers for throttling their unlimited plans. The only definitive limit on it I see is 5GB of tethering. Seems like even T-Mobile's lower tiered plans with data caps don't even charge you for overages. They just drop you to painfully slow 2G speeds after you reach the cap.

EDIT: Just reading up on T-Mobile has me tempted to switch. I guess I should read the caveats since the price looks too attractive. Mainly, how do they handle phone upgrades, and of course, what's reception like in BR?

EDIT 2: Holy shite, their Jump plan is even worse than ATT Next.