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Sprint threatening letter!!! Not really unlimited..

Just got a letter from Sprint, telling me control my internet usage within 10 days.... Otherwise they will kick me out. Sprint **** you, don't ****ing advertise as unlimited and then send these threatening letters to your customers.
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How much data were you at by chance? Also was it data used while roaming?

danielddube said:
Just got a letter from Sprint, telling me control my internet usage within 10 days.... Otherwise they will kick me out. Sprint **** you, don't ****ing advertise as unlimited and then send these threatening letters to your customers.
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What exactly was your usage? If it's over a reasonable amount, then yes you will get the letter.

Wow how much data?
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Are you ****ing serious?
Scan/Upload it I want to see.

Take a picture of the letter for us. I'm interested in what it says.

Over 100gb in a month.
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danielddube said:
Over 100gb in a month.
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That's quite a lot. How can you accidentally hit that amount? lol

No roaming, i have that turned off. I know that is one of the reasons they will kick you out.
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Man with Netflix and sometimes playing mw3 i guess you lose track.
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danielddube said:
Over 100gb in a month.
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Are you freakin' serious?!?! I maybe hit 10+ if I'm really trying. And I'm on my phone 24/7. Netflix, online games, Facebook, multiple messaging apps and push e-mail. I'm not suprised you got one at all lol
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Are you paying for hot spot?? Sprint can see if you're using a wifi tether app and that violates the TOS so that's probably why you got the letter.

That's a lot of ggggggbs.
I guess as long as you didn't tether I would agree with you.

Lol 100gb?? That's a lot but still Sprint is crazy...they advertise unlimited so I don't get it.
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danielddube said:
Over 100gb in a month.
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How is that even possible??? With the data speeds on Sprint, I'd think it'd take at least 2 months to download 100gb...

danielddube said:
Over 100gb in a month.
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Wow... that's a lot, and I thought I used the internet so much with 1.5 GBs a month.

danielddube said:
Over 100gb in a month.
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Whaaatt? 100GB?!

lafester said:
That's a lot of ggggggbs.
I guess as long as you didn't tether I would agree with you.
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I have a feeling he's been tethering.

QUICK!!! Sell a picture to one of the news outlets... this is news they want!!!
Or better yet, post it on Reddit...

BigRick10 said:
Are you paying for hot spot?? Sprint can see if you're using a wifi tether app and that violates the TOS so that's probably why you got the letter.
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Sounds like the case, even then 100gb is still damn excessive

$45 Unlimited All Straight Talk for T-Mobile

So all this time I thought that Straight Talk was ATT strictly.. til my bro in law just told me I can purchase a T mobile Sim Card and use it.
http://www.shopstraighttalk.com/bpd...cards&zip=32707&market=GSM5&locale=en&lang=EN
45$, unlimited text mins and web, no contract. Does anyone have this Straight Talk plan with a t mobile sim card?
If so, what kind of Web Speeds do they offer? Is it T mobiles Hspa 42.2 mbps 4g or what?
Also is it truly unlimited web? or do they throttle after certain GB of use?

Crisisx1 said:
So all this time I thought that Straight Talk was ATT strictly.. til my bro in law just told me I can purchase a T mobile Sim Card and use it.
http://www.shopstraighttalk.com/bpd...cards&zip=32707&market=GSM5&locale=en&lang=EN
45$, unlimited text mins and web, no contract. Does anyone have this Straight Talk plan with a t mobile sim card?
If so, what kind of Web Speeds do they offer? Is it T mobiles Hspa 42.2 mbps 4g or what?
Also is it truly unlimited web? or do they throttle after certain GB of use?
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They throttle for sure and the rest I'm not sure
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jgalan14 said:
They throttle for sure and the rest I'm not sure
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So I guess t mobile is the only true unlimited Web service
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Crisisx1 said:
So I guess t mobile is the only true unlimited Web service
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And sprint (if you get reception on it)
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jgalan14 said:
And sprint (if you get reception on it)
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Heard their data is horrible
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Crisisx1 said:
Heard their data is horrible
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Yeah I had them for a few years, last year it got bad after the iPhone it got even worse so I wouldn't recommended them at all, tmobile got some dead spots sometimes but is much much better than sprints
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If u get a plan on att w/ a tmo phone u will get h+... if u prepay u only get edge speeds...
To get speeeed u need to sighn a plan...
All depends what ur looking for...
Already checked it out.....
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Just to confirm straight Talk does have limits on their "unlimited web"
They just don't specifically tell you when.. But when they do feel like you've used too much data they just throttle you. That's an email from them.
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I am on the Unlimited data plan and after 5 gigs, they throttle
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So I guess t mobile is the only true unlimited Web service
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No, I am on the t-mobile Unlimited data plan and after 5 gigs, they throttle

We also have truly unlimited 4g plan also
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serendipityguy said:
No, I am on the t-mobile Unlimited data plan and after 5 gigs, they throttle
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How much does it cost you a month?..I'm on straight talk and do far i like it but haven't really used it on the road yet..
I had Sprint last week and decided to get rid of them cause their data speeds was soooo bad.. so far though I'm happy with straight talk. The girl i bought my phone off she mentioned simple mobile which runs of T-Mobile towers. And idea about them?..
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well, I am using simple Mobile $60. unlimited everything, but they throttle you when they feel you are using too much data. max speed I got around 16 Mb, by the way I live in Houston.
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makki666 said:
well, I am using simple Mobile $60. unlimited everything, but they throttle you when they feel you are using too much data. max speed I got around 16 Mb, by the way I live in Houston.
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Now they lowered the price to 50$
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serendipityguy said:
No, I am on the t-mobile Unlimited data plan and after 5 gigs, they throttle
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You're probably on the unlimited data with 5gb of 4g then after 5gb they throttle you.
But now t mobile has a data plan that is supposed to be truly unlimited.. No throttle
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Crisisx1 said:
Now they lowered the price to 50$
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Sorry, my bad. yeah it is 50 bucks.
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makki666 said:
Sorry, my bad. yeah it is 50 bucks.
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Can you do some speed tests and a screen shot
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Crisisx1 said:
You're probably on the unlimited data with 5gb of 4g then after 5gb they throttle you.
But now t mobile has a data plan that is supposed to be truly unlimited.. No throttle
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You sir, are correct.
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I've been using Straight Talk with the T-Mobile compatible sim for about 4 months now and I've never been throttled. I regularly use around 6-8gb of data a month and have never had any trouble. Speeds are exactly on par with what you get on T-Mobile.
However, there are rumblings of Straight Talk throttling on the AT&T compatible sim card.
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Crisisx1 said:
Can you do some speed tests and a screen shot
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Sure, but not now cuz I returned my phone back to amazon, I had a problem with it. I am planning to get SGS3 in a few days. sure I will post speed test.
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makki666 said:
Sure, but not now cuz I returned my phone back to amazon, I had a problem with it. I am planning to get SGS3 in a few days. sure I will post speed test.
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Thanks. What phone did you return to Amazon
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Throttle work around

Does anyone know if there is a way to work around being throttled on the TMO S3?
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No there isn't.

psykhotic said:
No there isn't.
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Yes there is, get the Truely Unlimited Data Plan
Anyway, there is no way to work around throttle cause it is done on T-mobile side, not on your cell phone

zengshengliu said:
Yes there is, get the Truely Unlimited Data Plan
Anyway, there is no way to work around throttle cause it is done on T-mobile side, not on your cell phone
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I would get the truly unlimited but can't afford it right now. As for the whole throttling, I was able to bypass it back when I had my Mytouch and some other phones in the past.
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tr82691 said:
I would get the truly unlimited but can't afford it right now. As for the whole throttling, I was able to bypass it back when I had my Mytouch and some other phones in the past.
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If you talk to loyalty they will give you twenty four months of 10 off with truly unlimited.... So, for two years it's the same price.
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tr82691 said:
I would get the truly unlimited but can't afford it right now. As for the whole throttling, I was able to bypass it back when I had my Mytouch and some other phones in the past.
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Yeah, they caught on to it now. Its all done by their servers networking tools. Nothing you do to your phone will "hide" how much data you are using. It is literally impossible.

elesbb said:
Yeah, they caught on to it now. Its all done by their servers networking tools. Nothing you do to your phone will "hide" how much data you are using. It is literally impossible.
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damn! Oh well then
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jjlean said:
If you talk to loyalty they will give you twenty four months of 10 off with truly unlimited.... So, for two years it's the same price.
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Loyalty?
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tr82691 said:
Loyalty?
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611

I was wondering this myself and it seems I do too much and I'm already at 2gb of data use lol

just get unlimited its only 10 more a month that 5gb

WiFi?

1SiK1500 said:
WiFi?
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I wish I had it at work but I dont
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Opera mini browser is a great way to reduce data consumption and it actually works relatively fast even when you are throttled
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md1008 said:
Opera mini browser is a great way to reduce data consumption and it actually works relatively fast even when you are throttled
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I use chrome since all my stuff from my PC get synced
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ionic7 said:
just get unlimited its only 10 more a month that 5gb
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It's the same price to the normal 5gb plan
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tr82691 said:
I use chrome since all my stuff from my PC get synced
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I am not a big fan of opera however if you are throttled trust me it's a life saver. Opera mini compresses your data so it not only uses less data but is much faster. When I am slowed down my data is practically worthless.
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How do you check your Hotspot data usage?

I just want to make sure that the exploit I'm using its not using any of free 500mb data cap you get when tethering... Is there any code I can punch or anywhere in the website where I can see my hotspot tethering usage? thanks in advance.
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dont know, but +1 for the answer if it gets posted here.

Doesn't MyTmobile have this information?

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Persianhawkes said:
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weird lol..
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aLdaRiS said:
weird lol..
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What do you mean weird? The unlimited data plan doesn't come with hotspot.
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xXchrizhurtyXx said:
What do you mean weird? The unlimited data plan doesn't come with hotspot.
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Oh but it does you little fellow, it comes with 500mb of free hotspot data..
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aLdaRiS said:
Oh but it does you little fellow, it comes with 500mb of free hotspot data..
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No... That's the regular data plans. Look it up on the tmobile website little fellow.
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xXchrizhurtyXx said:
No... That's the regular data plans. Look it up on the tmobile website little fellow.
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Au contraire little friend. the SMHS stands for smartphone mobile hot spot.
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aLdaRiS said:
Au contraire little friend. the SMHS stands for smartphone mobile hot spot.
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Well then somebody got lucky or is on an older data plan.
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xXchrizhurtyXx said:
Well then somebody got lucky or is on an older data plan.
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Wah, I just switched to tmobile when the gs4 came out... I hate that everyone has a different 'my account'... wth consistency anyone? but anyway yeah zi do have the unlmtd data... maybe I should do a test...
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aLdaRiS said:
Wah, I just switched to tmobile when the gs4 came out... I hate that everyone has a different 'my account'... wth consistency anyone? but anyway yeah zi do have the unlmtd data... maybe I should do a test...
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hotspot works for me on darthstalker rom even though I don't a tethering plan thanks to his work around.
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Aldaris is right. This the first time I had t-mobile and I have the unlimited plan and it came with hotspot which I didnt know it did.
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Persianhawkes said:
Aldaris is right. This the first time I had t-mobile and I have the unlimited plan and it came with hotspot which I didnt know it did.
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I guess it's a gift from tmobile to new customers then cause I don't have it but I am on the newer plans .
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xXchrizhurtyXx said:
I guess it's a gift from tmobile to new customers then cause I don't have it but I am on the newer plans .
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go to plans and check what plan you have... you should have it...
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aLdaRiS said:
go to plans and check what plan you have... you should have it...
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Couldnt find it in plans, so decided to chat with tmobile rep. this is the outcome.
She told me that i never added the free 500 mbs of free tethering to my account and that she would be able to do that for me at that moment.
So i asked her, do you see any data used for tethering on my account and she said no, so that means that the wifi hotspot work around was doing fine.
Then i asked should i be able to tether if i dont add this service, and she said no. which is wierd because i was tethering when i was speaking to her.
So guys should i add the free 500 mbs of tethering or just leave it as it is?

that is really weird.. since I can see it in plans... I'd say don't change it as its working right now and if it ever stops working which I doubt you could always change it
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aLdaRiS said:
that is really weird.. since I can see it in plans... I'd say don't change it as its working right now and if it ever stops working which I doubt you could always change it
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Yeah seems like a good idea. Thanks
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How much data have you used so far??

Now that most of us have volte and 15 x 15 lte, what is the most data you've used so far in billing cycle or in a full billing cycle? Let me start first. Billing cycle started 7/10. Today is 7/14. So far ive used 112 GB. Other carriers if we download 2 to 4 gameloft games then our speeds will slow down to 2g to 3g speeds.
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1gb since my max is 2gb before snail speed.

Max I've used is 50GB
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Most I have used about a year ago before I got Wifi was prolly 75gb for a month worth of data

Let me update my usage. So far as of July 18th, I used 183 GB.
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tercelman said:
Let me update my usage. So far as of July 18th, I used 183 GB.
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How? Do you tether?
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kendonsh said:
How? Do you tether?
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I dont tether. What I did was download a bunch of Gameloft games and then delete them. I repeated this process many times.
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tercelman said:
I dont tether. What I did was download a bunch of Gameloft games and then delete them. I repeated this process many times.
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So you're just doing it for the sake of hammering the network?
I know it's unlimited data and all, but using data just 'because I can' will not lead to positive benefits for the community as a whole.
Anyway, I used about 20GB this month. Lots of travel. No tethering.

18GB, use it with my ps3, and my tv
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Almost 122 gigs so far.
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This is actually low for me.. I do atleast 300 gigs a month
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App didn't upload the photo the first time

Most is probably 2GB while traveling with a bit of tethering. I'm on wi-fi so much, I usually don't go past 1GB or so. Especially since they dont count music streaming or speedtests anymore. But I also didn't realize it was a competition.

ezsoulja said:
This is actually low for me.. I do atleast 300 gigs a month
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Wow. What is the most data you've used in 1 billing cycle?
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So far 260GB used with 17 days remaining in billing cycle. I will reach about 500GB or more before this cycle ends.
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What in the hell do you do on your phone. There's no justifiable reason for that much
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Wtf.... 500GB!!!!!
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crazy talk said:
So you're just doing it for the sake of hammering the network?
I know it's unlimited data and all, but using data just 'because I can' will not lead to positive benefits for the community as a whole.
Anyway, I used about 20GB this month. Lots of travel. No tethering.
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What in the hell do you do on your phone. There's no justifiable reason for that much
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lol

As of 7/24 10:45pm, I've used 294 GB of data. I have 16 more days till my billing cycle starts all over. I'm on a pace to reach 600 GB. A world class record for mobile data usage.
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There is already a thread for this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2517062