If you're currently on Sprint Unlimited Freedom or the Premium version of the plan, get ready to merge, get more and pay less starting in March.
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It won't throttle streaming, but it will add on unlimited hotspot tethering and include free data to use in Canada and Mexico. It's a slightly pricier get.
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One carrier is making it harder to stay on, the other is making it harder to let go. Either way, if you’re an applicable customer, you’re paying more.
In the case of AT&T, the company is topping the rate of its grandfathered unlimited data plan (not associated with the offering tied-in with signing up for DirecTV or U-verse cable TV) by another $5 starting with customers’ March bills. The company will waive early termination fees for customers that decide to switch away from the Death Star within 60 days of the price hike.
The network will continue to throttle unlimited data users speeds after 22GB, based on tower traffic.
Turning to the Checkmark, you’ll find an “upgrade” in Verizon’s upgrade fees.
Last year, it introduced an upgrade fee, one that extended to iPhones on Verizon even paid through Apple’s Upgrade Program. This year, the fee itself has gone up from $20 to $30. Droid Life also reports that existing customers cannot opt to renew two-year contracts, something that new customers couldn’t do for a long time now.
Another tidbit? Verizon internally set 200GB as an “extraordinary” amount of data usage for those on its deprecated unlimited data plan.
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Rather shovel sand than snow? You know, just over an extended period of time. Like, the winter.
If you’re a snowbird on Sprint planning on skipping the border, make sure you call into customer service and activate the Sprint Open World service. No, not Sprint Global Roaming (which still seems to be on your account by default), Open World.
Through March 31, you can take advantage of not just 1GB of high-speed data, but unlimited high-speed data with Sprint Open World. There’s unlimited talk and text with the deal, too.
Here’s where you can go:
As long as you’re on one of the following plans (including some deprecated ones), you’re good to go with Sprint Open World:
T-Mobile brought unlimited high-speed data to European travelers this past summer while both Sprint and T-Mobile extended more data to spectators at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
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T-Mobile CEO John Legere took four minutes and twenty-two seconds to rat out its largest competitor by far, Verizon, over its recent advertising campaign against the Un-carrier, specifically when it comes to unlimited data.
Verizon has been picking on both T-Mobile and Sprint through the use of Jamie Foxx in some ads. The nation’s number three and four carriers by subscriber base recently introduced unlimited data plans with some stipulations — data speeds can be limited for streaming music, video and gaming and if users eat up too much data in any given cycle.
Big Red frames the offerings as “limited” when it comes to speed and, thus, HD video — unless you’re willing to pay “a lot” extra for it. Verizon also proclaims that it brings the best value with “all the data you need” without overage charges.
Typically outspoken Legere decided to respond to Verizon from a T-Mobile call center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Let’s take John point by point.
He ends with a social media campaign push for those who’ve felt tossed around by Verizon with a hashtag of #DontGetVerizoned. Legere is also testing waters with three poster ads, asking his followers to retweet on Twitter or like on Facebook their choice for which ad should get a national push.
#DontGetVerizoned ad option 1 below! Retweet = vote! Most votes wins! pic.twitter.com/et7p5ZItAI
— John Legere (@JohnLegere) November 4, 2016
#DontGetVerizoned ad option 2 right here! Retweet = vote. Most votes wins! pic.twitter.com/WhEJ9Xop5D
— John Legere (@JohnLegere) November 4, 2016
And… Last but not least… #DontGetVerizoned ad option 3!! Retweet = vote. Most votes wins! Go go go!! pic.twitter.com/OKyT3WIE4s
— John Legere (@JohnLegere) November 4, 2016
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It’s the hidden catches that make “unlimited” not what it seems to be. In the case of T-Mobile, the Un-carrier, it turns out that it did not tell customers on its unlimited data plan back in 2015 that their speeds would be throttled if they used too much data in a month. So, the Federal Communications Commission is making the ...
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Sprint has extended its Unlimited Freedom over to the tablet side of its operations, though the carrier doesn’t use the “Unlimited Freedom” branding. Instead, we just get unceremonious unlimited data for tablets for just $20 per line, per month.We see the same “optimization” conditions that are applied to the phone side right here: 480p streaming video, 500kbps music streams and 2Mbps gaming streams. You have
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You don’t need unlimited data plans. At least, that’s what Verizon says.But you can have all the data you can use while not having it count toward your data bucket for the month for up to an hour with Verizon’s new account feature called “PopData.”PopData lets you have 30- or 60-minute unlimited data sessions at a time on your cellular ...
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Every carrier has a business plan. At least, every carrier should have a business plan, otherwise, they’re outta business! But there’s more to Sprint’s new Unlimited Freedom for Business plan than just our crude, unfortunate punchline.The new plan is an extension of its consumer-side plans of the same name. Sprint is offering the same unlimited LTE data with ...
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Choosing a wireless communications service provider stateside based on which of the “big four” offers the best unlimited data deals isn’t easy, given all the ifs and buts, the fine print and restrictions, various strings attached, artificial throttling, or DirecTV obligations you have to consider before making your decision.But one thing’s been made abundantly clear by Verizon’s head honchos in
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With more LTE coverage comes more power. And T-Mobile isn’t afraid of showing users what that power holds for them.A random selection of accounts are getting data plan upgrades. Those who have the 10GB data bucket (possibly on a four-line account) are getting unlimited data for two years.2.5GB and 5GB bucket holders will get 1GB extra every month, which can be used for Wi-Fi hotspot and tethering purposes or put in their Data Stash for up to a year.Customers will continue to be charged ...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which laid accusations against T-Mobile’s Binge On zero-rate program not being net neutral, is calling out said T-Mobile again for more bits of anti-net neutrality. This time, its targeting T-Mobile One, the carrier’s new one-for-all unlimited data ...
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T-Mobile has had an undeniably admirable hustle hype when it comes to its Simple Global offering. It punched up free calls, texts and unlimited high-speed data in Europe right after Brexit and in Brazil just before the Olympics.Well, it’s the week of the opening ceremonies and Sprint is tailing the Un-carrier with a service bump of its own. As part of its Sprint Open ...
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T-Mobile raised its monthly plan rates last year as it introduced its Binge On zero-rate program. While it offered more data per tier and more hotspot data at that, the unlimited data package ended up starting at $95 from its previous $80.Currently, two lines of unlimited data come to $140 per month. Sprint’s offering a $120 rate for the same thing. But it could dive even deeper if that carrier’s trial offers of the ...
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If you are still clinging hard to that old, overpriced and out-of-contract Verizon unlimited data plan… you’re going to have to use less data and cling harder.Use less data, huh? Maybe that won’t even be enough.From sources to Droid Life, it seems that will have to be the case come tomorrow when the carrier’s “Unlimited Data Plan Migration” scheme will take effect.Verizon will contact account holders that use “an extraordinary amount of data” every ...
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