Is T-Mobile going to add more than 5gb of data? - G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Does anyone know if T-Mobile is going to add more gb or remove data throttle? I use the 5gb within 2 weeks.
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Just change your APN to another one and you will reset your limit

How do you do that??
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Like what do you set all the tabs to?
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After the at&t merger competes it's much more likely that you will be capped at 2GB and be charged $10/GB if you go over.
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raitchison said:
After the at&t merger competes it's much more likely that you will be capped at 2GB and be charged $10/GB if you go over.
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Not true. Any users that had unlimited data before price changes were grandfathered in..what makes you think it'll be any different?
They cap you at 5GB? No unlimited plan?
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Yea at 5gb they slow it down to ridiculous speeds.
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death1246 said:
Just change your APN to another one and you will reset your limit
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The method of changing APN's doesn't work anymore. I do believe that as far as getting around the 5GB limit throttle, there is no way around it!
@OP, there was some rumors or news that T-Mobile was considering rising up the limit to 10GB, but I can't verify that sadly.

Ok thanks I guess ill just wait.
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Spastic909 said:
Not true. Any users that had unlimited data before price changes were grandfathered in..what makes you think it'll be any different?
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They don't have to keep around grandfathered plans forever, I'm sure they won't be forcing people to change right away but I expect that at some point they will make it harder to hold onto the old plans as they did for the other AT&T users when they did away with unlimited data.

I just got throttled too =(
Learned my lesson, I'm going to set up a notification next month to warn me when I get closer to my cap...

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Is 4g worth changing for?

This coming week i will be changing phones. I have an unlimited data alltel plan with 10 my circle numbers. I use widi at home all the time and am wondering is it reallt worth buying a 4g phone and have to pay about $50 more a month, just to have the 4g srvice in my area. Im kinda torn right now. If i go 4g, they will make me xhange my plan, and right now, unlimited costs $20 a month for 2 phones.
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That's a huge change in bill cost right now. Would you be moved to a capped 2GB data plan per phone line from your present unlimited data plan? There's been a few LTE outages lately so I would advise you, if possible, to wait a little longer and see if Verizon's LTE network becomes more consistent.
I've always been cool with 3G and given how much of a battery hog 4G can be - I'm not going anywhere. I wouldn't trade that deal in!
SlimSnoopOS said:
That's a huge change in bill cost right now. Would you be moved to a capped 2GB data plan per phone line from your present unlimited data plan? There's been a few LTE outages lately so I would advise you, if possible, to wait a little longer and see if Verizon's LTE network becomes more consistent.
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If you have unlimited 3G, you get unlimited 4G.
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Lot of coin.... Way I see it, the more folk jump to LTE, the faster 3G is going to be.
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smtom said:
Lot of coin.... Way I see it, the more folk jump to LTE, the faster 3G is going to be.
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Well, the more people jump on 4G the less 3G spectrum there will be, Verizon plans to have all 3G spectrum down by 2014.
Smokeey said:
Well, the more people jump on 4G the less 3G spectrum there will be, Verizon plans to have all 3G spectrum down by 2014.
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Didn't know that. So folk without LTE device, do their phones no longer work or what?
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smtom said:
Didn't know that. So folk without LTE device, do their phones no longer work or what?
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Wondering that too. I plan on using my Inc for a while
-My life is a shooting range, people never change-
smtom said:
Didn't know that. So folk without LTE device, do their phones no longer work or what?
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That would be freakin lame.
by 2014 Verizon plans to be done disabling the 3G network.
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I was sitting at my kitchen table and got these excellent results 23.63Mbps up and 3.76Mbs down. With my 3G speeds on my INC I was NEVER able to even get 1Mb. Image is attached. But I am paying $30 for unlimited data still.
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Didn't know that. So folk without LTE device, do their phones no longer work or what?
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Verizon will offer them a sweet deal on upgrading to 4G.
I would wait until phones with better battery life come along. If there is an emergency, a fancy 4G phone with no charge is just a paper weight. BTW, congrats on the $20 unlimited plan! Should've gone with Alltel...
Really, now is the time to upgrade. Get a GNex, get a razor, or get a resound. Personally get a G-Nexus. Excellent phone, its the future of Android. Its setting the industry standard.
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Just ordered a Rezound via Amazon. I think 4G is worth it if you grandfathered in the old unlimited plan. Otherwise, I am not sure how worth it upgrading to 4G would be. Personally I never run into a situation where I have used more than 1 GB of data in a month, and average around 500 MB. However I am now using Google Music and have run into an instance where tethering for a laptop was really useful while being away from my home FiOS.
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I understand that you keep or are grandfathered on the data plan, but isn't there another fee for LTE data? If so, how much?
Either way, the op would have to spend lots more coin for maybe not so much more goodies.
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It isn't worth it until we get S-off on the Rezound; but that is the best replacement for the DInc.
smtom said:
I understand that you keep or are grandfathered on the data plan, but isn't there another fee for LTE data? If so, how much?
Either way, the op would have to spend lots more coin for maybe not so much more goodies.
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My unlimited plan IS for data. I could choose one of the 2/4/10 GB plans or keep unlimited. There was no extra fee for 4G mentioned when I upgraded from my DInc to the Rezound.
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Cool, thanks, didn't know that there wasn't an additional charge for LTE. Maybe I will think about upgrading in April.
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wpbear said:
It isn't worth it until we get S-off on the Rezound; but that is the best replacement for the DInc.
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There is no guarantee on that. I take stock aosp over sense for sure. And gnex has full root, not something rezound can claim yet. Gnex has loads of ROMs and kernels already.
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Simple data plan 200mb of 4g

They recently changed this plan to "unlimited" where as before it was pay per megabyte. After your reach your limit you get throttled to almost a crawl. Figure this was worth a mention for those looking to cut corners. I know I will probably switch temporally to save a few extra bucks. I use a lot of data but I can contain it on wifi, also Pandora still works pretty good on 2g and less hicups that with Virgin Mobiles 3g (true story) I need internet as I need if for text message as I use Google Voice other wise I would probably just do with out.
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Just noticed this on the value plan. Have no idea about the classic plan
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I thought the GS3 required at least the 2GB plan....
Possibly but I think on the value plan data is optional.
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I think you maybe right when I go to make the changes it says something along the lines "sorry we cant complete your request" I think this is absolute crap if this be case
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Just checked out on the individual plan as if I were going to buy online and it let me well sort of obviously I am not going to add an unnecessary phone line. Then again with the value it looked like all was well untill I got the generic message saying they cant help me with my request
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Just called 611 and next month my simple data plan begins see how long I can last on 2g lol
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md1008 said:
Just called 611 and next month my simple data plan begins see how long I can last on 2g lol
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Actually i had that plan and after you reach your data of 200 mb,you get charge of .10 cents a mb up to 25.00 dollars and then they throttle you unless they change the plan all together.i tried to get the unlimited nationwide 4g but couldn't since i have a grandfather plan...so i went with the 5gb unlimited with free tethering...
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Actually i had that plan and after you reach your data of 200 mb,you get charge of .10 cents a mb up to 25.00 dollars and then they throttle you unless they change the plan all together.i tried to get the unlimited nationwide 4g but couldn't since i have a grandfather plan...so i went with the 5gb unlimited with free tethering...
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Yeah that'svwhat I read but now it says that this plan will not charge you just slow you down.
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shrty4luv said:
Actually i had that plan and after you reach your data of 200 mb,you get charge of .10 cents a mb up to 25.00 dollars and then they throttle you unless they change the plan all together.i tried to get the unlimited nationwide 4g but couldn't since i have a grandfather plan...so i went with the 5gb unlimited with free tethering...
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Did you even read the first sentence of the thread?

AT&T Upgrade question

OK so I have an upgrade available and my plan is only 3G/HSPA+ and I wanted to get the note 2. Does anyone know if I have to upgrade to a 4G plan to get the phone for $300? Is there a way around it? I wanna know because I Dont really use my data and Dont want my bill any higher.
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Gore785 said:
OK so I have an upgrade available and my plan is only 3G/HSPA+ and I wanted to get the note 2. Does anyone know if I have to upgrade to a 4G plan to get the phone for $300? Is there a way around it? I wanna know because I Dont really use my data and Dont want my bill any higher.
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You can switch to the 4g plan with the same data limits as your current 3G plan. Just make sure you tell them you want to keep the same limit but switch to 4g. I did that with mine when I got the Galaxy S3.
Are you on a unlimited plan? If so nothing will change in price. If your on a different plan you will not likely be prompted to choose a plan, at least my mom was with her iPhone 5. It worked out for her because she got a extra 1gb for $5 more. What plan do you have?
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Hi thanks for the replies. So if I switch to 4G with the same data limits does the price stay the same? And I have the 200 GB (is it GB?) 3G/hspa
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I'm just trying to keep my bill the exact price it is every month.
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Gore785 said:
Hi thanks for the replies. So if I switch to 4G with the same data limits does the price stay the same? And I have the 200 GB (is it GB?) 3G/hspa
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Yes your price will stay the same.
You have the 200 MB. ATT does not have a 200 GB plan. I have the 2GB plan for 25 dollars.
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Yes your price will stay the same.
You have the 200 MB. ATT does not have a 200 GB plan. I have the 2GB plan for 25 dollars.
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Oops. I actually have the 2 GB plan. Thanks so much I shall go tomorrow in store to buy my new phone :thumbup:
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Virgin and boost getting lte -_-

How do you guys feel about this happening...now it really makes the contracts pointless now...just get it all on prepaid
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They should make em suffer with wimax.
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They're shifting everyone to LTE - I think - to try and start taking down WiMax in some of these markets. I'll be interested to see if any new devices will be able to use the Clear band anytime soon.
All in all will be an interesting year for Sprint. If the deals go their way they may be in nice shape for the rest of the CY.
Only devices using wimax now are the multi band hotspots and clears routers/hotspots. No new wimax phones are being produced, but older stock maybe rebranded a la the epic touch on boost and vm
I like to break stuff!
I used to work for boost.. To this day customer service sucks... Virgin is the worst though
Even my service provider cricket wireless is becoming 4G. And it started with the wackest phones 4 years ago while sprint. Was claiming they had it . And had better smartphones. Now cricket has the s3. And is going 4G LTE this year. Not even sprint is that Fast
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chuko303 said:
Even my service provider cricket wireless is becoming 4G. And it started with the wackest phones 4 years ago while sprint. Was claiming they had it . And had better smartphones. Now cricket has the s3. And is going 4G LTE this year. Not even sprint is that Fast
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Then again, I had Cricket not too long ago (switched from Cricket to Sprint when I got the Note 2 on opening day) with my EVO 3D and they make you pay for each GB of data per month.
I had 2GB and was paying 60 a month. It sucked when the data speeds slowed.
Think it was an extra ten for another GB.
In actuality, their data is not unlimited.
I called and complained to them stating I thought everything was unlimited and they said, "well, not that."
Lol.
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So if Virgin and Boost gets lte what's the point of staying with Sprint... Only to get the latest phones?
DarkManX4lf said:
So if Virgin and Boost gets lte what's the point of staying with Sprint... Only to get the latest phones?
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This!!!!! That's exactly what I'm saying right here!!!! I'll pass on the latest and greatest if I can spend possibly $40 a month (boost) and still get everything
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I guess it depends on the plan you have too. I have a family plan with 6 lines on a 1500min everything data account. So I pay $230mo after taxes for 2iphones,my GN2 and 3 dumb phones to get unlimited data, text and the shared minutes. I can't beat that on pre pay yet.
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Subsidized phones. That's the main difference.
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Is LTE authenticated through meid number?
If we use an Lte boost phone as a donor, will the note also have Lte enabled?
KB112 said:
I guess it depends on the plan you have too. I have a family plan with 6 lines on a 1500min everything data account. So I pay $230mo after taxes for 2iphones,my GN2 and 3 dumb phones to get unlimited data, text and the shared minutes. I can't beat that on pre pay yet.
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I thought the max number of lines you can have on a Sprint account is 5? But I can see your point.
DarkManX4lf said:
I thought the max number of lines you can have on a Sprint account is 5? But I can see your point.
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You can have as many lines as your approved for. In have seem unlimited on a few accts. Most accts are 10 though.
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DarkManX4lf said:
I thought the max number of lines you can have on a Sprint account is 5? But I can see your point.
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Yes the limit is 5 on one plan. I got a supervisor to approve adding a 6th line for me.
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You can have as many lines as your approved for. In have seem unlimited on a few accts. Most accts are 10 though.
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Yes I am authorized for 10 plus lines on my "account". But the limit per "plan" is supposed to be only 5 lines. So you can have 2 plans with 5 lines each, but not 10 on one plan. Unless you open a business plan.
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KB112 said:
Yes the limit is 5 on one plan. I got a supervisor to approve adding a 6th line for me.
Yes I am authorized for 10 plus lines on my "account". But the limit per "plan" is supposed to be only 5 lines. So you can have 2 plans with 5 lines each, but not 10 on one plan. Unless you open a business plan.
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I got ya. The post was a little misunderstood. I thought he was talking account, not share plan.
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Cricket wireless has the best plan then any cell phonw provider. There new plans include. $60 for 2gb+free tethering and $70 for 5GB of data and tethering is it worth an extra 10? I think so lol
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Cricket wireless has the best plan then any cell phonw provider. There new plans include. $60 for 2gb+free tethering and $70 for 5GB of data and tethering is it worth an extra 10? I think so lol
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What's the point of tethering without unlimited
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"if you don't like sprint (and or price changes that are stated to change at anytime in the contract THAT YOU SIGNED!!!!) then you can giiiit oouuutt"
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"if you don't like sprint (and or price changes that are stated to change at anytime in the contract THAT YOU SIGNED!!!!) then you can giiiit oouuutt"
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Lol, let me just own you in 3 points
1. re-read the title of my thread
2. Re-read the SPRINT part of my sign
3. Don't try to quote my sig without any knowledge or proper grounds of it
Now I'll quote my avatar for you
YOU LOSE!!! GOOD DAY SIR!
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Hmm, TMobile will let customers upgrade 2x a year on new plan

T-Mobile to let US customers swap phones twice a year
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/10/tmobile_jump_phone_swap_plan/
They're really trying hard to attract customers. This is a serious hook, that's for sure.
True...but do the math. It will definitely draw people to T-Mobile, but they are just throwing away money. You are better off buying the device upfront than selling it yourself after 6 months instead of the 'JUMP' deal. If you upgrade after a year, you have just spent 150 for a phone, 240 for the monthly installments, and 120 for jump...that's 510 to lease a phone for the year. You probably could have purchased that same phone for 600 originally. I'm guessing you could have sold it for more than 90 dollars at the end of the first year.
Plus that includes insurance, so may be worth it for people that are willing to pony up for that anyway. T-Mobile is starting to look awfully tempting especially after the new sprint plan details that leaked recently.
What sprint deals leaked? I thought they weren't getting ride of unlimited data
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mcasas6969 said:
What sprint deals leaked? I thought they weren't getting ride of unlimited data
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http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/10/sprint-leak-shows-new-unlimited-plans
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What sprint deals leaked? I thought they weren't getting ride of unlimited data
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http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/10/sprint-leak-shows-new-unlimited-plans/
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Wow had no idea that was happening. Does that plan allow you to have more than 5 phones on your account
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That sprint plans seems like what I'm paying now for everything unlimited for one line. I don't see a difference unless you have more than one line.
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I have a family Plan and would actually be paying more with the new plan.
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lvpre said:
I have a family Plan and would actually be paying more with the new plan.
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Same here
Back when I actually had a 2 line family plan, I payed $142 after taxes (unlimited talk not included, 1400 minutes)
New plan, would be paying $150 if I still had the family plan.
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Seems to me then it might only be worth it to stay if you have just one line and if the service is better than t mobile. I winery if this will let people out of their eTF?
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I have 4 lines with the everything plan. this new plan increase my bill about $25 (4 lines 140 + 110 for the new All-in) but it comes with hotspot on every phone.
I suppose that is fairly reasonable to have the hotspot on the phones; as I don't root my wife's and kids phones anymore. talk about a headache. hehehe
On T-Mobile, I am interested to see what amount of $$ they'll give you when you want to trade in for a newer model. Sprint's current trade in is horribly in inadequate.
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Seems to me then it might only be worth it to stay if you have just one line and if the service is better than t mobile. I winery if this will let people out of their eTF?
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Unless they force you to make changes before your contract is over then no you wont get out etf free.
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Tmobile seems like a good alternative to sprint. My old carrier doing what I wanted before I left them unlimited data. I might go back they have lte in my town and hspa to fall back on.
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