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anyone here on the $30 5gb unlimited text 100 minutes plan?
is your data slow? 1-3mb? im in DFW and according to the speed test thread others are getting much higher speeds. someone reported 15mb+!
I was able to get this plan after a week of countless tmobile support reps, 4 walmarts, 5 sim cards and 2 tmobile stores...
I dont really want to get into the details but finally got the plan but i am noticing 3g speeds and not the 10mb+ 4g speeds i was expecting. Is this plan even though a "Monthly4g" plan limited to 3g speeds? I have the 4g icon and show umts or hspa in phone info screens...
anyone have similar results, or any ideas? I have had this issue on every ROM including stock. I plan to visit a tmobile after work to view instore phone side by side with mine and compare data speeds.
No insights to share, unfortunately, although do please keep us updated on your experience. I'm thinking of switching to this plan as well.
Not too shabby.
I'm on the 'Walmart' plan in SoCal and have been getting 7-15mbps for the most part.
im on it and have recieved up to 18mb
i got that plan. my data is really fast. i even use it for tethering
Should be excellent in that area. The last time I went out there I was getting 6mb speed tests on my Vibrant. From Arlington all the way out to White Settlement.
Didn't make it to check another set @TMO today but testing again from home (white rock lake area) still 1-3m... Same I get @work in Las Colinas. frustrating...
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Im in white settlement right now and I get 9M+ on the regular, but with the regular value plan.
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Pretty sure its throttled after you surpass 5gb
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I am aware of throttling after 5gb but that will be much lower than my current speeds (60k ish), plus I'm nowhere near that limit.
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This is the plan I was going to get because 100 min is going to be enough for me
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I like and saw this deal on walmart website, but sadly when i call walmart. They said they didn't offer this plan. Does all walmart offering this plan or it based on location?
I get anywhere from 500k - 13mb/s in DFW. I'm in tarrant county 90% of the time... mid-cities area. Everywhere I've tested in Dallas/N. Dallas, though, is always faster. I think the hspa+ is more built out there ... just more people, more tech industry, faster growth.
But yeah, the nice and releatively quiet suburbs of where live are not super fast. But im happy with my speeds
maybe it was related to this?
T-Mobile Identifies And Fixes Trouble With Internet Surfing On Wal-Mart Monthly 4G Plan
http://www.tmonews.com/2011/10/t-mo...internet-surfing-on-wal-mart-monthly-4g-plan/
theyownus said:
anyone here on the $30 5gb unlimited text 100 minutes plan?
is your data slow? 1-3mb? im in DFW and according to the speed test thread others are getting much higher speeds. someone reported 15mb+!
I was able to get this plan after a week of countless tmobile support reps, 4 walmarts, 5 sim cards and 2 tmobile stores...
I dont really want to get into the details but finally got the plan but i am noticing 3g speeds and not the 10mb+ 4g speeds i was expecting. Is this plan even though a "Monthly4g" plan limited to 3g speeds? I have the 4g icon and show umts or hspa in phone info screens...
anyone have similar results, or any ideas? I have had this issue on every ROM including stock. I plan to visit a tmobile after work to view instore phone side by side with mine and compare data speeds.
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Greenturtle23 said:
I like and saw this deal on walmart website, but sadly when i call walmart. They said they didn't offer this plan. Does all walmart offering this plan or it based on location?
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last time i went to walmart, they didnt know what i'm talking about!
just buy a simcard activation kit from amazon and activate the 30$ prepaid plan at home!
Greenturtle23 said:
I like and saw this deal on walmart website, but sadly when i call walmart. They said they didn't offer this plan. Does all walmart offering this plan or it based on location?
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heres my experience:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19019395#post19019395
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maybe it was related to this?
T-Mobile Identifies And Fixes Trouble With Internet Surfing On Wal-Mart Monthly 4G Plan
http://www.tmonews.com/2011/10/t-mo...internet-surfing-on-wal-mart-monthly-4g-plan/
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Nah. That was another issue blocking most all Web access... Something to do with secure sites... It was fixed before I activated (the first time)
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I switched to that plan from post paid and I still get the same speed, about 18 Mbps in Spokane.
I thought you couldn't get the SGS 2 phone with the walmart plan???
This plan doesn't come with any phone I think
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Just wondering if anyone has gotten throttled, and if you've been able to get around it by changing apn... (Im deathly afraid of getting throttled, but if I just get bumped down to HSPA+ its not a big deal)
My understanding is that AT&T doesn't throttle, they just keep adding 1gb to your usage for $10 everytime you go over.
So if you're on their 2gb plan and use 10gb in a month, that's 8gb over your plan at $10 per gig = $80 extra for that month.
...Personally, I'd rather be throttled.
For those that are still on the Unlimited Data plan (myself) you get throttled. I believe their rule is after 5GB of usage in a month you are reduced to EDGE speeds.
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For those that are still on the Unlimited Data plan (myself) you get throttled. I believe their rule is after 5GB of usage in a month you are reduced to EDGE speeds.
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I'm on an unlimited plan and I got throttled after using only 2GBs. It was a weird situation though, and changing the APN got me back to HSPA+ speeds but no LTE. I couldn't get Visual Voicemail to work either and had to check it the old-fashioned way but others on the forum have switched APNs and reported no issues with Visual Voicemail.
I'm going to have to show my buddy with the Skyrocket how to add the HSPA+ APN then. That's one trick I've learned so far. He got throttled last month cause he's constantly using LTE.
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I'm on an unlimited plan and I got throttled after using only 2GBs. It was a weird situation though, and changing the APN got me back to HSPA+ speeds but no LTE. I couldn't get Visual Voicemail to work either and had to check it the old-fashioned way but others on the forum have switched APNs and reported no issues with Visual Voicemail.
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Were you using LTE data prior to getting throttled?
In my experience ATT throttle starts 15th to the end of each month, at least in the peak hours.
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In my experience ATT throttle starts 15th to the end of each month, at least in the peak hours.
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I thought it was based on your billing cycle and your usage. Or are you saying it's across the board for all users?
AT&T says if you are in the top 5% of data users then you are subject to throttling once you hit the threshold of that top 5% percent. I think it's crap, some say it's justified in order to keep the network up to par.
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Were you using LTE data prior to getting throttled?
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I was using HSPA+ when I was throttled.
On my galaxy s2 I achicved 8gb one.month with no throttling
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I thought it was based on your billing cycle and your usage. Or are you saying it's across the board for all users?
AT&T says if you are in the top 5% of data users then you are subject to throttling once you hit the threshold of that top 5% percent. I think it's crap, some say it's justified in order to keep the network up to par.
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Yeah, it's possible, my cycle starts at the beginning of the month..
As of it's "justified" crap: how about the fact that they give you unlimited usage plan but limiting it?
It's bull**** to me. If you can't handle this many users, then perhaps you should not have so many users...
[email protected] we think alike. The worst part is there is no standard. Some get hit, some don't. It really is bull****.
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Hey all, I just wanted to see if anyone else is having the issues that I've been having with my Epic Touch. First off... data sucks! Can barely get 4G then is disconnects, and highest download speed EVER was 4MB/sec. But that's a rare thing. 3G is spotting and always horribly slow. Next biggest issue are the calls. I get dropped calls now everyday. On average 2-3 times if I'm on the phone a lot.
This was never an issues in the past, maybe 6-9months ago. I used to give my GF crap because she always had call issues on AT&T. Now's she's on Verizon and I'm plain jealous! Great data and now lost calls.
I've used many ROMs (GB and ICS), modems, etc. Also tried stock and still horrible.
I'm thinking of trying to get out of my contract because when signed it, everything was much better. Anyone else having these issues? Any thoughts on why this is? I can only guess that this did begin to happen after Sprint got the iPhone and reported a huge increase on customers. I'm from the SF bay area and live two blocks from Google HQ. Can't be the location...
You know 4 MB/s is 32 Mbps?
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You know 4 MB/s is 32 Mbps?
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You are incorrect. 4 MB/s the same as 4 Mbps. Either way, my point is internet is slow.
For you edu:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_rate_units
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You are incorrect. 4 MB/s the same as 4 Mbps. Either way, my point is internet is slow.
For you edu:
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LMAO You are incorrect. MB/s is Megabytes per second. Mbps is Megabits per second, Mb/s is also Megabits per second.
Read your own educational material:
Megabit per second
A megabit per second (Mbit/s, Mb/s, or Mbps; not to be confused with mbit/s which means, literally, millibit per second) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to:
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Megabyte per second
(not to be confused with Mbps - Mega bits per second) A megabyte per second (MB/s or MBps) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to:
8 megabits per second.
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However you appear to be getting 4 Mb/s or Mbps and not 4 MB/s which would be insanely fast for WiMax.
Conversion between the two is same as bits in a byte, 8. Not forgetting to factor in they use a metric of 1000 for each unit K,M,G just like hard drive manufacturers. So my 1 Gbps server uplink is 125 MB/s.
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You know 4 MB/s is 32 Mbps?
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LMAO You are incorrect. MB/s is Megabytes per second. Mbps is Megabits per second, Mb/s is also Megabits per second.
Read your own educational material:
However you appear to be getting 4 Mb/s or Mbps and not 4 MB/s which would be insanely fast for WiMax.
Conversion between the two is same as bits in a byte, 8. Not forgetting to factor in they use a metric of 1000 for each unit K,M,G just like hard drive manufacturers. So my 1 Gbps server uplink is 125 MB/s.
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My bad! I stand corrected. I clearly didn't read far enough. Thank you.
Anyway, still does't get to my reason for this thread. The real reason for this thread is still the same.
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Anyway, still does't get to my reason for this thread. The real reason for this thread is still the same.
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Yeah no ones argued that one yet . I used to get 8 to 15 Mbps on tests alot but not so much anymore.
I WISH!!!! I could only get 4Mbps. I get roughly 50~100kbps everywhere on Sprint.
I have to flash a Verizon PRL to get anything more and then I'm lucky to see a 1Mbps.
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LMAO You are incorrect. MB/s is Megabytes per second. Mbps is Megabits per second, Mb/s is also Megabits per second.
Read your own educational material:
However you appear to be getting 4 Mb/s or Mbps and not 4 MB/s which would be insanely fast for WiMax.
Conversion between the two is same as bits in a byte, 8. Not forgetting to factor in they use a metric of 1000 for each unit K,M,G just like hard drive manufacturers. So my 1 Gbps server uplink is 125 MB/s.
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1 Megabit per second is equal to 0.125 megabytes per second, which would mean that 4Mbps is 0.50 MB/s.
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1 Megabit per second is equal to 0.125 megabytes per second, which would mean that 4Mbps is 0.50 MB/s.
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That wikipedia article has some problems. It is a bit contradictory. On the one hand, it is correct by showing 1 megabit as being equal to 125 kilobytes, or 0.125 megabytes...but then it shows 8 megabits being equal to 1 megabyte.
The article admits problems, but I believe 0.125 is the correct conversion. Half a megabyte sounds about right when referring to 4mbps.
I have 18mpbs U-verse, which gives me a maximum of about 2.25mb/s down, which is correct, using .125 as the conversion.
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Sorry for all of the posts. I too am fed up with sprint. I get spotty 3g and little to no 4g as well. I mainly rely on wifi, and I have no signal in several places I go to. I actually miss AT&T.
To top it off, I called Sprint customer retention and expressed my displeasure with Sprint's service, and also asked for a dollar amount to buy out of my contract, and the service rep did not seem to care one bit whether or not I stayed with Sprint. I asked for an early upgrade for my family and I, and he refused. He also suggested I revert back to GB on my phone because of the problems ICS is causing, but then backed off of that idea when I explained to him how that would void my warranty (he thought doing a factory reset would revert the phone back to GB). Once he knew I knew what I was talking about, he wanted to wisk me off to tech support. His name was Tom, and now that I think about it, I need to do the survey I got for the call, and be sure to give him an appropriate low score for his poor customer service and lack of empathy and care.
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To top it off, I called Sprint customer retention and expressed my displeasure with Sprint's service, and also asked for a dollar amount to buy out of my contract, and the service rep did not seem to care one bit whether or not I stayed with Sprint. I asked for an early upgrade for my family and I, and he refused. He also suggested I revert back to GB on my phone because of the problems ICS is causing, but then backed off of that idea when I explained to him how that would void my warranty (he thought doing a factory reset would revert the phone back to GB). Once he knew I knew what I was talking about, he wanted to wisk me off to tech support. His name was Tom, and now that I think about it, I need to do the survey I got for the call, and be sure to give him an appropriate low score for his poor customer service and lack of empathy and care.
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Yeah that sounds like what I would expect from them at this point. I'm guess a lot of people currently have issues. A year ago, service was excellent. Really the purpose of this post was to see if anyone had actually been able to get out of their contract on the basis of decline in the quality of service. I'd be surprised though if they would let that happen.
I've been seriously contemplating moving back to T-Mobile. Sure they don't have unlimited data, but the way things stand today my Sprint service is being throttled so badly due to network congestion that I'm rarely ever hitting 2GB anymore. With T-Mobile I'd probably hit the 4GB cap, then drop to Sprint speeds, which is still a better scenario.
I keep hearing how great Network Vision will be, but they spewed the same crap with Wimax, and we all know how that's gone. I'll decide what to do once I see what the next series of Nexus devices look like. I'd love a Nexus version of a Note II.
I'm fed up with Sprint too. Once my contract is up(I think December January, which isn't that far away), I'm switching to T-Mobiles prepaid 100 minutes, unlimited texting, and unlimited data (throttled after 5GB) and I'm gonna buy the next Nexus(or the one with the largest screen size if there are more than one).
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eozdalga said:
Hey all, I just wanted to see if anyone else is having the issues that I've been having with my Epic Touch.
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They are updating a lot of their towers in the bay area so your signal might improve in a few months. You might also consider an LTE device as you should have or be right around the corner from having LTE service in your area. Here's an LTE deployment map for the South Bay: Update map
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I'm fed up with Sprint too. Once my contract is up(I think December January, which isn't that far away), I'm switching to T-Mobiles prepaid 100 minutes, unlimited texting, and unlimited data (throttled after 5GB) and I'm gonna buy the next Nexus(or the one with the largest screen size if there are more than one).
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If you're in Kansas you should have LTE active in your area. If not then it should be available there soon. I'd think about trying a Sprint LTE device before jumping ship. I've seen speed tests on Youtube and they are super fast on LTE. If you are fed up for reasons other than data speeds than changing carriers might be your only option. Good luck.
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They are updating a lot of their towers in the bay area so your signal might improve in a few months. You might also consider an LTE device as you should have or be right around the corner from having LTE service in your area. Here's an LTE deployment map for the South Bay: Update map
If you're in Kansas you should have LTE active in your area. If not then it should be available there soon. I'd think about trying a Sprint LTE device before jumping ship. I've seen speed tests on Youtube and they are super fast on LTE. If you are fed up for reasons other than data speeds than changing carriers might be your only option. Good luck.
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I believe LTE is active here. But even though I get decent wimax in my area(at least the last time I checked it connected), I haven't used WiMax at all on my E4GT that I got in march, except to do a few speed tests just to compare it to speeds on 3G and WiFi.
I have two other reasons for wanting to switch too. For one, T-Mobile gets better signal in my area, and with a prepaid plan that's a hell of a lot cheaper than Sprint, it helps. I'm getting off my parents contract and was debating between Sprint and T-Mobile prepaid.
Second, I would rather have a GSM phone than CDMA. I think that having a GSM phone would be more beneficial in case I brick my phone, where just popping the sim card would be easier than calling Sprint to activate a different phone.
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EggosEvo said:
I believe LTE is active here. But even though I get decent wimax in my area(at least the last time I checked it connected), I haven't used WiMax at all on my E4GT that I got in march, except to do a few speed tests just to compare it to speeds on 3G and WiFi.
I have two other reasons for wanting to switch too. For one, T-Mobile gets better signal in my area, and with a prepaid plan that's a hell of a lot cheaper than Sprint, it helps. I'm getting off my parents contract and was debating between Sprint and T-Mobile prepaid.
Second, I would rather have a GSM phone than CDMA. I think that having a GSM phone would be more beneficial in case I brick my phone, where just popping the sim card would be easier than calling Sprint to activate a different phone.
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I'd go with T-Mobile over sprint for prepaid, their unlimited prepaid is like 50$ a month you get 4g and its throttled after 3 or 5gb(I forget which) but speeds when throttled are still 1-3mbps and on T-Mobile you can roam on at&t for free if you end up in an area with no tmobile coverage but at&t coverage. The only downside to T-Mobile is they have crappy customer service and they don't always have the best selection of devices right away. At least they didn't when i had them for work. They always had the downgraded version. Like in my case they only had the bb pearl 8100 when everyone else had the 8190. And now they have the one s which is a slightly downgraded one x just has a little less power under the hood. Kinda like only being able to get a oz rally lancer when the other carriers have the lancer evo
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Sprint freaking sucks... I was going to cancel my account (after 10 years) and go to Verizon.. but after 30 mins on the phone with cust INservice I was informed that the ETF only starts going down after 6 months (instead of immediately like I was told to begin with)... The whole time the rep was telling me the max ETF was $300 but mine was $350 and she couldn't explain it...
The constant BS from customer service and the steadily declining data speeds are making paying that $350 just to get out of it seem worth it....
PLUS... I see people talking about waiting it out.. Sprint will eventually have upgraded towers and then LTE will be here "soon" and all that... I was an early adopter of the EVO 4G and the WiMax connectivity that would "soon" come to my area... needless to say, I never got to use WiMax once...
There's no way I'm staying with Sprint for the promise of better 3G speeds or the coming of LTE - eventually
Several friends have Verizon and their speeds are WAY better and with how much data I use I'd spending almost the same amount as I am on Sprint.
OK, sorry about the soapbox.. but it's a sore subject as of late
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Good luck with Verizon they now charge $40 per line access charge on top of your data plan and the Max data is 10gb @ $100 so for 10gb data you pay $140+tax and their customer service is 100x worse than sprint. The bare minimum plan is like 2gb data @ $30 I think plus the $40 per line access charge so your paying $70+tax for 1 line with 2gb data if you have more than one line its $40 per additional line so 2lines + 2gb data = $110 + tax or more I can't remember for sure if 2gb is $30 or $40 all I know is its a rip off and they have no other plans now except this new shared data and unlimited calls and texts scheme which all the plans are over priced on top of having that ridiculous $40 per line access charge for a family of 4 you pay $160 just in access charges plus what even minimal amount of data you want tto share for 10gb that's $260 + tax for a family of 4, on sprint I pay $207 for 4 lines with unlimited everything including unlimited hotspots and that includes tax. I'd have to be retarded or just like giving away money to switch carriers. Not to mention I live in a semi rural area and they've already begun the network vision and lte deployment in my area, and many urban areas are already seeing lte which just hasn't been officially turned on but its active and you can use it.
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mideastbeast said:
They are updating a lot of their towers in the bay area so your signal might improve in a few months. You might also consider an LTE device as you should have or be right around the corner from having LTE service in your area. Here's an LTE deployment map for the South Bay: Update map
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Thanks for this. Good to know that Bay Area is next on the list. I wonder if that really is why voice calls are almost useless (at least for me). I would think they are different towers but I have no idea.
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I'd go with T-Mobile over sprint for prepaid, their unlimited prepaid is like 50$ a month you get 4g and its throttled after 3 or 5gb(I forget which) but speeds when throttled are still 1-3mbps and on T-Mobile you can roam on at&t for free if you end up in an area with no tmobile coverage but at&t coverage. The only downside to T-Mobile is they have crappy customer service and they don't always have the best selection of devices right away. At least they didn't when i had them for work. They always had the downgraded version. Like in my case they only had the bb pearl 8100 when everyone else had the 8190. And now they have the one s which is a slightly downgraded one x just has a little less power under the hood. Kinda like only being able to get a oz rally lancer when the other carriers have the lancer evo
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I actually found out new T-Mobile prepaid customers have access to a $30/month plan that gives 100 minutes, unlimited texting, and unlimited "4G" data with throttling after 5GB. And as far as devices go, I'll probably see if the next Nexus can support T-Mobile's network like the GNex can. If not I'll buy the GNex and wait for a better device.
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I have been noticing awful reception issues. Wimax keeps fizzling out on me, and I don't know who says NYC seems to be getting good 3g cuz it sure as Hell isn't me. This is with CM9, TW based runs, everything. I am hoping that the rumored lte upgrade in November/December will help matters on the 3g front. I promised my wife the next upgrade when the new iPhone comes out. Hopefully my e4gt will keep me going till another upgrade comes around.
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Who do I have to blow for unlimited data.
I try my hardest to connect to every possible WiFi connectiom but I always hit my data cap. I find my self turning my data connection off on the 15th ~ every month
Sprint?
How much data are you paying for???? 5GB?
the AT&T "unlimited" plan is worthless whichever way you look at it. You get throttled after 3GB of use, which is 1mbit up, 0.1mbit down, at which point your phone is worthless for just about anything useful. Just bite the bullet and pay for the data I guess. I was averaging 11-12 GB per month before this throttling started and I managed to get it down to 1.2-1.5 GB. The only usage habit I changed was avoiding downloading apps.
Not the end of the world, otherwise go to Sprint if you live in an unsaturated market with LTE or WiMAX, which is rare.
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the AT&T "unlimited" plan is worthless whichever way you look at it. You get throttled after 3GB of use, which is 1mbit up, 0.1mbit down, at which point your phone is worthless for just about anything useful. Just bite the bullet and pay for the data I guess. I was averaging 11-12 GB per month before this throttling started and I managed to get it down to 1.2-1.5 GB. The only usage habit I changed was avoiding downloading apps.
Not the end of the world, otherwise go to Sprint if you live in an unsaturated market with LTE or WiMAX, which is rare.
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The "cap" is 5 GB for LTE, and you get throttled to 3G speeds.
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Who do I have to blow for unlimited data.
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The "cap" is 5 GB for LTE, and you get throttled to 3G speeds.
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What he said. Its not 3gb for this device.
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asl?pic? jk
What he said. Its not 3gb for this device.
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Damn, thanks for the correction. I was speaking of my iPhone 4S experiences, guess they don't apply for non-Apple products.
Maybe I'll bite the bullet and change my 2GB plan for 3GB for $5.00 more. I'm not a terribly heavy data user anymore though. But OP, that sucks, sigh. Maybe you can buy a grandfathered SIM on eBay if you need it that badly?
For AT&T, get an original iPhone, place your standard sim in it, it will prompt you for unlimited data. Wait a reasonable amount of time (maybe a month) and then upgrade from your iPhone to whatever it is you want -- and take your data plan with you.
Good luck.
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Who do I have to blow for unlimited data.
I try my hardest to connect to every possible WiFi connectiom but I always hit my data cap. I find my self turning my data connection off on the 15th ~ every month
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Just swap APN's when they throttle you. I've used a ton of data this month (thanks Sandy) and I just finally got throttled on my i717.
The AT&T $30 grandfathered plan is anything but "unlimited". I have been throttled so many times. Hardly going over 3GB's sucks.
I heard switching APNs doesn't work? Some day it will only allow for HSPA speeds and not LTE speeds if your successful.
I wish AT&T's unlimited plan was like Verizon's. I'd always buy at no commitment pricing so that's not a big deal to me. I'd do that each time to have truly unlimited LTE.
So, when you get throttle, do they send you some kind of notification that you are being throttled or does you speed just slow down? Been close to 5 gb a couple of times but have yet to see a drop in speeds. Going to test it one of these days when there is about a week left in cycle by exceeding the cap to see what happens for me.
from a galaxy far far away....
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So, when you get throttle, do they send you some kind of notification that you are being throttled or does you speed just slow down? Been close to 5 gb a couple of times but have yet to see a drop in speeds. Going to test it one of these days when there is about a week left in cycle by exceeding the cap to see what happens for me.
from a galaxy far far away....
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I think they do the very first time, but its a warning that they will throttle you in future billing cycles. I was throttled for about 4 days in September and the speeds were not bad. I was able to do everything. It just wasn't super fast, but operable. I think I was getting about 400-500kbps (very nice Sprint speeds).
Between my work wifi and home wifi I never go over 2gb a month, I feel bad for you "Data Hogs" (AT&T words no mine)
MattMJB0188 said:
I think I was getting about 400-500kbps (very nice Sprint speeds).
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LOL that is EXCELLENT 4G speeds for Sprint. lol
MattMJB0188 said:
I think they do the very first time, but its a warning that they will throttle you in future billing cycles. I was throttled for about 4 days in September and the speeds were not bad. I was able to do everything. It just wasn't super fast, but operable. I think I was getting about 400-500kbps (very nice Sprint speeds).
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That Sprint speed is ridiculous, I usually hit about 3 Mbps - 5 Mbps depends on location with my Galaxy S II on AT&T and that's just HSPA+ not on LTE.
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cbass said:
Just swap APN's when they throttle you. I've used a ton of data this month (thanks Sandy) and I just finally got throttled on my i717.
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Hmmm...how do you 'swap' APNs? I have only one in the list on my phone. (Right now, an SGS III). Or, how do you know what to manually add for a different APN?
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Hmmm...how do you 'swap' APNs? I have only one in the list on my phone. (Right now, an SGS III). Or, how do you know what to manually add for a different APN?
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You have to add the APN manually. There was a specific APN that wasn't checked for usage or throttled. I'm using past-tense because I've heard that when AT&T set the hard 3GB and 5GB limits for throttling on the unlimited plan, this trick stopped working.
To answer someone else's question about warnings, you should get an SMS warning you that you're close to the cap, and then another SMS to tell you that you've been throttled when you hit the cap.
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That Sprint speed is ridiculous, I usually hit about 3 Mbps - 5 Mbps depends on location with my Galaxy S II on AT&T and that's just HSPA+ not on LTE.
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12-18 on H+ with my one X international. 40-50 on lte with my note
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The AT&T $30 grandfathered plan is anything but "unlimited". I have been throttled so many times. Hardly going over 3GB's sucks.
I heard switching APNs doesn't work? Some day it will only allow for HSPA speeds and not LTE speeds if your successful.
I wish AT&T's unlimited plan was like Verizon's. I'd always buy at no commitment pricing so that's not a big deal to me. I'd do that each time to have truly unlimited LTE.
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Verizon is kicking everyone off unlimited grandfathered I hear. A bunch of my friends called Verizon and even if they buy an off contract phone they still lose data and then their bill goes up at least 30 bucks. ...think I read this somewhere also
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browniegirl said:
Verizon is kicking everyone off unlimited grandfathered I hear. A bunch of my friends called Verizon and even if they buy an off contract phone they still lose data and then their bill goes up at least 30 bucks. ...think I read this somewhere also
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Incorrect on all fronts. Buying a phone outright does not change your plan. This is actually the ONLY way you can keep unlimited for vzw. Also the bill does not go up $30 it simply changes their unlimited plan to the 2gb for the same price as the old unlimited. If they chose to go to the share data that will be different but vzw is in no way forcing anything on people except for taking their unlimited data, which blows. But that's life. And in ten years people will have no idea what unlimited data means
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Note that I am not referring to their somewhat misleading advertising that calls all of their plans "unlimited," but instead the $20/mo extra per line that gives you supposedly unlimited LTE.
I'll be living in a large city with excellent LTE coverage in the near future, and I had considered this plan option, possibly even to replace a home internet connection using a ROM with built in tethering, etc. But I don't know if there's some fine print somewhere that they would throttle it after a point, possibly down to 3g speeds or something? I use a lot of netflix, I would estimate my daily combined home cable + current wireless monthly bandwidth consumption somewhere in the neighborhood of 100gb/mo if not more.
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Note that I am not referring to their somewhat misleading advertising that calls all of their plans "unlimited," but instead the $20/mo extra per line that gives you supposedly unlimited LTE.
I'll be living in a large city with excellent LTE coverage in the near future, and I had considered this plan option, possibly even to replace a home internet connection using a ROM with built in tethering, etc. But I don't know if there's some fine print somewhere that they would throttle it after a point, possibly down to 3g speeds or something? I use a lot of netflix, I would estimate my daily combined home cable + current wireless monthly bandwidth consumption somewhere in the neighborhood of 100gb/mo if not more.
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Interesting. I was on the My T-mobile app once and saw that it said unlimited data but in parentheses it said something around 9,000gb. So that would be considered unlimited if you look at it since it's monthly and don't see anyone ever going above that in a month with hardcore downloading.
I only got 2.5 gig for 10 buck a month most of the time im on wifi.
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whytechapel_x said:
Interesting. I was on the My T-mobile app once and saw that it said unlimited data but in parentheses it said something around 9,000gb. So that would be considered unlimited if you look at it since it's monthly and don't see anyone ever going above that in a month with hardcore downloading.
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Well that would be less disheartening if so. $20/mo for truly unlimited LTE that's faster than the local cable company would be well worth it to me, even if I got it alongside a home connection. But these days, I'm just paranoid that the truly unlimited data days with consistent speeds no matter how much you consume each month might be by the wayside. At some point into that 9,000gb they might try to slow you down?
My T-Mobile reps in the local store didn't have an answer for me on this one, and I don't relish the idea of trying to get one from the 1-800 number.
After you use your high speed data limit you will get slowed down to 2g speeds.
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Don't listen to these guys. I am on the truly unlimited in tampa Florida and I have used over 75gb this month alone on LTE..
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I use over 95 gigs over LTE loving the unlimited
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yes, its truly unlimited
Around a year ago, I remember t mobile actually throttled after a certain point. 4 gigs I think.
Now unlimited is 9,999 gigs.
Yes, truly unlimited
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I'm @ 40+ GB this month
and just did a speed test:
10Mbps dl/ul LTE
No throttling here.
T-Mobile......
Truly Unlimited/No throttling LTE @ $20/mo.
Compared to Sprint No LTE in my area
Even beat out Verizon S3 in a side by side comparison speedtest, 2 out of 3 tests, one draw, in an enclosed room in the middle of an office building.
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whytechapel_x said:
Interesting. I was on the My T-mobile app once and saw that it said unlimited data but in parentheses it said something around 9,000gb. So that would be considered unlimited if you look at it since it's monthly and don't see anyone ever going above that in a month with hardcore downloading.
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I saw that 4G limit of 9.899gb in ( ) on my first invoice, and I was like, What??
I called T-Mobile and spoke to a rep.
It's just the way the billing system is set up to describe Unlimited 4G LTE, but yes, you Are getting Unlimited LTE, no throttling, she explained to me. Of course I asked her the same thing 2 more times in slightly different ways, as at first her explanation sounded suspicious. But I verified it 3 times in total. I did believe her, and subsequent LTE usage have shown that the Rep was telling the truth, as I have Unlimited 4G LTE without throttling
I used over 65 Gb last month of data and not a problem. I tether my entire house (changed user agents in computer browsers top avoid detection) and love it. I pay $70 a month. Can't beat this plan. It's the best deal I've seen around.
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