A bug like this could be a minor annoyance for those on
unlimited mobile plans but costly for anyone on a limited plan if they're penalized for exceeding their monthly limit.
Not exact matches
Someone who used 10 GB in a month, for example, would pay $ 120 on Fi, versus the standard
unlimited data
plans of AT&T (t) at $ 90, Verizon (vz) at $ 85, Sprint (s) at $ 60, and T -
Mobile (tmus) at $ 70, that all cost less for one line.
The tease follows T -
Mobile's (tmus) move last week striking a partnership with Netflix (nflx) to give its recent
unlimited plan customers free access to the service.
T -
Mobile in January said it would stop adding additional fees and taxes to customers»
unlimited plan bills, an effective price cut of about 10 %.
Instead, the carrier abandoned its opposition and rolled out an
unlimited plan that was somewhat more expensive than
plans from Sprint and T -
Mobile, but which deeply undercut its own previous pricing
plans for heavy data users and family
plans.
Both the Sprint and T -
Mobile unlimited plans reduce the quality of streaming video and can slow download speeds if a customer uses a large amount of data in one month.
T -
Mobile also said it would start refunding $ 10 per month for any
unlimited plan line that used less than 2 gigabytes of data in a month.
Marking his 13th Uncarrier promotion on Thursday at CES in Las Vegas, T -
Mobile CEO John Legere also promised that for customers who sign up for the current
unlimited plan, the company will never raise the price.
Both T -
Mobile CEO John Legere, who has 2.9 million Twitter (twtr) followers, and Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure, who has almost 129,000 followers, began posting on the social network about new
unlimited data
plans that each of their companies introduced on Thursday.
What's noteworthy here is that T -
Mobile is pitching the One Plus
plan as providing «
unlimited HD Day Passes,» instead of just
unlimited HD video streaming.
It's also worth repeating that, technically, the One
plan isn't actually
unlimited — T -
Mobile says customers who use more data than 97 % of other customers will «have their usage prioritized» and «may notice slower speeds during times and places of congestions.»
According to the T -
Mobile rep, those who have the $ 30
plan today are now «grandfathered» in, but for new customers the $ 45 a month offering — which gives
unlimited talk, but 1 GB less of 4G data — is now the cheapest option.
A «T -
Mobile One Prepaid»
plan that costs $ 75 a month for «
unlimited» LTE data, but caps video streamed over the network at 480p unless you pay $ 3 for a day's worth of HD streaming.
The $ 80 - a-month starting point makes Verizon's
unlimited plan costlier than T -
Mobile One, which starts at $ 70 a month for a single line, and Sprint's
unlimited data
plan, which normally costs $ 60 a month.
And with its new T -
Mobile One
plans, the carrier has effectively made this idea standard: You get «
unlimited» data, but all video is limited to a low - res 480p until you pay an extra fee.
The new
plan comes on the heels of other renewed and aggressive pushes into
unlimited data from rival carriers, most notably T -
Mobile, which has grown in recent months while Verizon's mobile division has slowed, and in August replaced all its existing mobile plans in favor of one unlimited offering called T - Mobil
Mobile, which has grown in recent months while Verizon's
mobile division has slowed, and in August replaced all its existing mobile plans in favor of one unlimited offering called T - Mobil
mobile division has slowed, and in August replaced all its existing
mobile plans in favor of one unlimited offering called T - Mobil
mobile plans in favor of one
unlimited offering called T -
MobileMobile One.
The carrier says its
unlimited plan allows users to stream video at an «HD» resolution and that it includes up to 10 GB of LTE
mobile hotspot data before cutting that to 3G speeds.
This week, T -
Mobile announced two higher - priced
unlimited data
plans, each with different features.
Rival carrier Sprint (s) quickly announced its own new, cheaper
unlimited plans after T -
Mobile's announcement.
The wireless industry had been moving away from
unlimited data
plans until T -
Mobile and Sprint (s) revived the concept in August.
Bieber goes on to explain the «
unlimited» ways people have celebrated in the past, then referencing to T -
Mobile's
unlimited data
plans.
Under the new «T -
Mobile One»
plan unveiled on Thursday, customers can get
unlimited voice, texting, and data starting at $ 70 a month for one line, $ 120 for two lines, $ 140 for three lines and $ 20 for additional lines.
T -
Mobile slashed the price of its
unlimited data
plans, the latest move in the carrier's three - year long «Uncarrier» marketing campaign.
With three different
unlimited plans at three different prices, T -
Mobile now appears to be losing ground in the battle with complexity.
In the ad, through a string of clever weed puns, the two converse about T -
Mobile's
unlimited data
plan.
After touting a new single, low - cost
unlimited data
plan this summer as the best choice for most customers, T -
Mobile unveiled several more expensive versions of the
plan this week, each with different features and limitations.
That's where T -
Mobile's
unlimited plan comes into play.
(A January update found that the margins had shrunk, though Sprint and T -
Mobile heavily promoted new
unlimited plans in the time between.)
T -
Mobile has since rolled Binge On and its music - streaming counterpart, Music Freedom, into its default
unlimited plan.
T -
Mobile said it would phase out all its limited data
plans for new customers starting next month when the new
unlimited plans are available.
Then on Thursday, T -
Mobile and Sprint slashed prices from their prior
unlimited data
plans.
T -
Mobile's prior
unlimited plan, which had fewer restrictions, started at $ 95 for one line.
AT&T soon opened its
unlimited plan to any customer while Sprint and T -
Mobile added HD video.
In addition to its highest - priced «
unlimited data»
plan, rival carrier T -
Mobile offers a 5 gigabyte
plan with «
unlimited data» and explains on its website that after the allotted amount is used up, data speeds slow.
In August, T -
Mobile (tmus) and Sprint (s) introduced cut - rate
unlimited plans, though with reduced quality video streaming.
T -
Mobile's basic
unlimited plan, which downgrades streamed video to DVD quality and offers more limited tethering, still starts at $ 70.
T -
Mobile is raising the price of its premium
unlimited plan by $ 5, or 7 %, as competition in the wireless market starts to cool amid rampant merger talks.
The carrier already offers a $ 25 discount to its pay TV services or DirecTV Now online video service to all
mobile unlimited plan customers.
The original low price T -
Mobile (tmus)
unlimited plan, introduced in August and known as T -
Mobile One, downgraded all streaming video to phones from high - definition to DVD quality.
This quarter, T -
Mobile benefitted specifically from a new, cheaper
unlimited data
plan that only Sprint (s) matched.
Both Sprint and T -
Mobile have similar DNA and have eliminated confusing rate
plans, converging into one rate
plan:
Unlimited,» said Marcelo Claure.
The faster connection speed is likely to attract even more visitors, particularly as carriers move away from offering
unlimited data
plans for
mobile devices.
Then in August 2016, T -
Mobile was the first carrier in the United States to offer
unlimited voice, text and data
plans.
Verizon Wireless offers a comprehensive range of wireless services and
plans, including smartphones, tablets,
mobile hotspots, home office solutions,
unlimited plans, prepaid
plans, data
plans, business
plans, international services, and more.
The new $ 70 - per - month «
unlimited data»
plans announced by T -
Mobile USA this month came with some big limits.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has accused T -
Mobile USA of violating net neutrality principles with a new «
unlimited» data
plan that throttles video.
The standard T -
Mobile One
unlimited plan will now provide tethering speeds of up to 512kbps instead of just 128kbps.
«For new customers, we
plan to retire Simple Choice eventually, because everyone will want
unlimited,» T -
Mobile told Ars.
The end result was a brasher and more competitive T -
Mobile, who lead the way on a wave of improvements in the sector culminating most recently in the return of simpler, easier
unlimited data
plans.
Beyond banning HD streaming video and knee - capping
mobile - hotspot speeds, the $ 75 Go
Unlimited plan reserves the possibility of «deprioritizing» your data if you enter an area with network congestion — even at the start of a billing cycle, before you've burned up any data yourself.