[Q] sprint data question? - General Questions and Answers

ok someone brought this up to me and i have no idea as to if they are right or wrong and sprints customer service didn't really help. so i turned to the great xda community in the hope of finding an answer.
so im going on a road trip relatively soon and someone sayed that if you are using 3g while out of your "home area" if you will. that there is not a data cap for 4g but there is one for 3g even when not roaming. so what i would like to know is if the 3g cap is true or not and if so how big is it "5gb, 2gb, etc." because i plan on tethering my evo to my laptop and since 4g is pretty much nowhere i will probably be using 3g and don't want to have to pay some outrageous "you use the internet to much" charge on my bill.
p.s. i have a 1500 shared unlimited plan

come on someone has to have some kind of answer to this

Don't qoute me but I'm pretty sure that if there is a cap (2gb?) Its just a soft cap. IF they believe its being abused, the most they will do is throttle your data speeds. But really they will only notice if you're a long time offender. Even then, I've read many posts on xda from people saying they hit 5gb+ every month with no problem.
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tmobile data cap

blah sadly today tmobile capped by data, because i went over the`5gb limit. is there a way to uncap it, or at least does anyone have an idea?
It took me just a week to get my data capped. Its because id rather use my phone and get 8mbps instead of my home Internet which is sadly 0.4mbps. I don't think its possible to get the cap removed. Your going to have to wait till your next cycle.
I thought they just throttle it and not cap it?
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GEEZ, what are on do you guys do to stream so much data? I've never hit close to that in a month
Lol i practically use my phone as a computer. I download things from games to music
I thought that for Unlimited Data they just drop you down to 3G after you've used 5GB on 4G.
It is my understanding that they throttle you pretty hard at 5 GB, to GPRS or EDGE speeds.
If you haven't deleted it, My Account will show your usage. I use 3G Watchdog which will straight-line predict your end-of-month usage as well.
For people not used to the speeds available, it isn't hard to chew up 5 GB in a month. For example, if you stream 128 kbps radio for an hour in the morning and an hour on the way home, that is about 3.3 GB of payload, so probably 3.5-4 GB of data transfer a month.
Thankfully TuneIn FCs a lot
Yea man they bone you pretty hard after you go past 5gb. I went from 4g to edge smh, I am aboit to calk and complain. I am pretty sure there was a way to get passed it on the vibrant, after things get settled for the galaxy s 4g I'm sure we will be able to do the same.
I thought it was 10gb?
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Yeah I thought it was 10gb too but once I passed 5gb they sent me a message and throttled my speed to edge speeds.
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Wait so its not really unlimited ??? Is so im really going to sale this and get that Nexus S 4G...
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Yogi3 said:
Wait so its not really unlimited ??? Is so im really going to sale this and get that Nexus S 4G...
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Thats not worth it. Every carrier has a cap even if they advertise that they don't. I've read on the internet that on sprint people get throttled and maybe even get their accounts canceled going over a certain limit. I think tmobile's is the best option right now.
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icy56 said:
Thats not worth it. Every carrier has a cap even if they advertise that they don't. I've read on the internet that on sprint people get throttled and maybe even get their accounts canceled going over a certain limit. I think tmobile's is the best option right now.
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Thats wrong, Sprint is the only carrier with true unlimited. Although there data speeds are the worst of the big four. I barely got 1mbs on 3G and around 4mbs on 4G. When i could get a signal, witch sucks cause i live in KC. Sprints headquaters is here, I could no longer take the slow speeds and went back to tmo where i have 4G everywhere I go. Usually around 8mbs and i have 3G around 5mbs.
http://pocketnow.com/tech-news/sprint-outs-new-tv-ad-ceo-dan-hesse-defines-unlimited
The war of words and facts continues with sprint preparing a new TV ad -- more of a campaign -- where CEO Dan Hesse goes on camera and defines the word "unlimited" and what concepts it is not compatible with.
These incompatible terms are "metering, overage, or throttling, which is code for slowing you down", Hesse says while Bill Morgan, sprint senior vice president-Corporate Marketing agrees that some of Sprint's competitors are creating confusion in their customer's minds by referencing "unlimited" plans which are not unlimited in reality.
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MvP77 said:
Thats wrong, Sprint is the only carrier with true unlimited. Although there data speeds are the worst of the big four. I barely got 1mbs on 3G and around 4mbs on 4G. When i could get a signal, witch sucks cause i live in KC. Sprints headquaters is here, I could no longer take the slow speeds and went back to tmo where i have 4G everywhere I go. Usually around 8mbs and i have 3G around 5mbs.
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well nows a good time to leave tmobile, At&T just purchased T-mobile so goodbye cheap and unlimited plans.....
icy56 said:
well nows a good time to leave tmobile, At&T just purchased T-mobile so goodbye cheap and unlimited plans.....
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LOL... I just read that about a hour ago... LOL... I was just about to say that also... I dont like AT&T slow network, plans that dont fit any user, and will find out if you unlocked a cool feature and will try to charge you for it ( like the folks that use their iPhones to tether ) ...
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icy56 said:
well nows a good time to leave tmobile, At&T just purchased T-mobile so goodbye cheap and unlimited plans.....
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Your prices are locked in as long as you stay with them. The prices may get even better now that together that will be bigger than Verizon and start trying to beat eachothers prices. Not to mention with any luck better service area. Still not that excited to see them merge.
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I dont use that much data but in a family plan, would that cap apply to both phones separately or combined?
Caps apply separately. I'm in a family plan and the other people haven't been throttled
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Do rps dealer accounts get data capped? Anybody know?
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icy56 said:
Caps apply separately. I'm in a family plan and the other people haven't been throttled
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Thanks a bunch

Anyone else have service down ONCE agan in Phx, Az

This seems to be a daily occurance with Verizon being down on data, no 3G or 4g for hours!!! I was with All-Tel and now Verizon and very very disappointed with this service. This will be our last time to renew our contract!! This is unacceptable service from a big city such as Phoenix. This is not just in one location its all over dam city! Lots of people are posting the very same issue across the whole us. I guess its due to growing pains, so kick back some money to the users that are being screwed paying top $$$ for a service that half the time is down. Hoping others post here and other forums of the awful service being received from Verizon.
Cheers
You know you wasted this rant in a place Verizon will never see or bother to look, right?
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adrynalyne said:
You know you wasted this rant in a place Verizon will never see or bother to look, right?
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Come on Adrynalyne, use your godlike development powers to fix Verizon's network for him hehe
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Come on Adrynalyne, use your godlike development powers to fix Verizon's network for him hehe
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LOL you and I both know if it was the network, that rbox would be ranting and raving in irc.
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LOL you and I both know if it was the network, that rbox would be ranting and raving in irc.
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OH yeah, good point, lol
azbobs said:
This seems to be a daily occurance with Verizon being down on data, no 3G or 4g for hours!!! I was with All-Tel and now Verizon and very very disappointed with this service. This will be our last time to renew our contract!! This is unacceptable service from a big city such as Phoenix. This is not just in one location its all over dam city! Lots of people are posting the very same issue across the whole us. I guess its due to growing pains, so kick back some money to the users that are being screwed paying top $$$ for a service that half the time is down. Hoping others post here and other forums of the awful service being received from Verizon.
Cheers
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best thing to do is to call them every time it happens and make them note it on your account. It's how I got out of my t-mobile contract without etf's....
azbobs said:
This seems to be a daily occurance with Verizon being down on data, no 3G or 4g for hours!!! I was with All-Tel and now Verizon and very very disappointed with this service. This will be our last time to renew our contract!! This is unacceptable service from a big city such as Phoenix. This is not just in one location its all over dam city! Lots of people are posting the very same issue across the whole us. I guess its due to growing pains, so kick back some money to the users that are being screwed paying top $$$ for a service that half the time is down. Hoping others post here and other forums of the awful service being received from Verizon.
Cheers
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I've found that doing the ##778# and edit mode with the pass of 000000 to enable revA made my data A LOT more consistent. You do loose the connection to the 4G towers but personally I'd rather have reliable 3g than flakey 4G
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I seemed to have more data drops here in phx when I was on the mr2 radio. Ended up flashing back to bamf 1.8 with the froyo radio and not the data drops are much less frequent. And I didn't notice a data drop today. Usually happens around midnight for me.
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Yeah my 3g is intermittent as well. Starting to get annoyed.
It's funny. For some reason. I k.ow I could jump on he forum and see a post about this.
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theryanguy said:
I've found that doing the ##778# and edit mode with the pass of 000000 to enable revA made my data A LOT more consistent. You do loose the connection to the 4G towers but personally I'd rather have reliable 3g than flakey 4G
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I, too, keep it in EVDO mode since it appears stable as compared to eHRPD then toggle on 4G with LTE On/Off app when needed.
Since I got the phone I have really had no problems with service. Occasionally the 4g is a little wonky, but no big problems. I live on the northern border of the 4g reach, so I'm usually on 3g anyways
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What do you think about at&t?

I've read a lot of post about at&t being a terrible network and blah blah blah. I want your opinion on it. I've been with at&t for a long time. I've been with them when was 'Cingular'. Now I've noticed since the atrix and inspire have came out, my network has been very inconsistent. Are you noticing this too? And is it enough to make you switch?
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I'm generally happy with speeds and service. Minus the major spots (JFK, LAX, any sporting event) i've never had issues.
I too have been with them since cingular. I have noticed no change. Its the same service I had with my iphone. /Shrug
Ppl were complaining when I had that too But as far as Data was concerned it always worked. i could Stream movies or Sirius any time all day/night.
Still do/can. I don't use the phone part of my cell phones tho so I may have a skewed opinion. I think I currently have 4000+ Roll Over minutes
Ya if I paid for my bill id switch ATT sucks ass ill be on Verizon when my dad makes me start paying
ATT is a bunch of crooks I don't know why my dad puts up with it always some extra charges on there and they never take it off my dad had to call 3 times to get the 9.99 for ATT navigator off my line I kept telling my dad my phone doesn't even have that stupid app cuz I deleted all the bloatware
My girlfriend also works for a ATT call center and they teach them to slam and cram peoples accounts because they think no one will notice the goverment should of never let them buy out t mobile.
ATT got ride of there unlimited plan luckily im grandfathered in
But they put a cap on t mobile unlimited plan after they bought it I think its 5gb then u just get super slow speeds after that
There a giant corperation and there hungry for nickels and dimes
I suggest everyone who pUsh there ATT bill to take a close look at it
Oh one more thing there home dsl internet has a cap on it also 150 gb a month most people won't hit that ya bit if you have netflix streaming you'll hit it every month in my opinion alkida needs to pit there focus on blowing ATT up and not towers
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ac3kill said:
Ya if I paid for my bill id switch ATT sucks ass ill be on Verizon when my dad makes me start paying
ATT is a bunch of crooks I don't know why my dad puts up with it always some extra charges on there and they never take it off my dad had to call 3 times to get the 9.99 for ATT navigator off my line I kept telling my dad my phone doesn't even have that stupid app cuz I deleted all the bloatware
My girlfriend also works for a ATT call center and they teach them to slam and cram peoples accounts because they think no one will notice the goverment should of never let them buy out t mobile.
ATT got ride of there unlimited plan luckily im grandfathered in
But they put a cap on t mobile unlimited plan after they bought it I think its 5gb then u just get super slow speeds after that
There a giant corperation and there hungry for nickels and dimes
I suggest everyone who pUsh there ATT bill to take a close look at it
Oh one more thing there home dsl internet has a cap on it also 150 gb a month most people won't hit that ya bit if you have netflix streaming you'll hit it every month in my opinion alkida needs to pit there focus on blowing ATT up and not towers
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Wow that was so hard to read I think My brain vomited.
ATT has not been approved to buy T-Mobile yet.....Altho they will most likely get it.
Alkida? My God what the hell......
There, their, and they're.
There is a place. Like hey i am going over there.
Then we have the word Their, It shows possession. Like that is theirs.
We also have they're or, they are. As is they’re over there, you can see their car. See these, ............ .. . . . .<--- these are the periods you left out of your entire post.
Verizon and att both have subpar performance for price. Generally all American providers are horrible.
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Wow that was so hard to read I think My brain vomited.
ATT has not been approved to buy T-Mobile yet.....Altho they will most likely get it.
Alkida? My God what the hell......
There, their, and they're.
There is a place. Like hey i am going over there.
Then we have the word Their, It shows possession. Like that is theirs.
We also have they're or, they are. As is they’re over there, you can see their car. See these, ............ .. . . . .<--- these are the periods you left out of your entire post.
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Lol. I'm trying to remember if this is the same poster I had punctuation issues with recently.
Txts alot, was the excuse, I believe. I wonder if teachers/professors accept that as a valid reason these days.
I'm sad with the speeds I get overall with ATT but I'm in a contract. Plus the phones are fun
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It's the same person LOL i don't use periods on my phone if i was on a computer that would be a different story haha
Your lucky my phone didn't auto correct to something else I sent my boss a text one day and was trying to spell kati yet somehow it became marijuana let's just say I don't work there any more bahaha
ATT is very dirty you should hear half the stories my girlfriend tells me when she gets home
One person had 600$ in long distance charges all because they didn't have a 5$ a month plan
And the worst part is the lady didn't make any of the calls someone tapped into her line and wracked all that up here's another one
Customer calls and complains that he's being charged overages inhospitable cell phone bill for data when he presumed he had unlimited turns out some store employee changed his account to the 4gb plan when he came into the store to add a line. Theres a period ROFL bahahaha
Sorry but any company that puts a limit in the internet is f'd up in my book whether or not its cell phone or home phone its just flat out ridiculous PERIOD
And for anyone with ATT home service I bet you got a lil 5$ a month service line protection plan on your bill and I bet if you ask to remove it'll still be there or it will be back in a matter of time.
They teach their (yes I do know the difference ) employees to slam and cram all kinds of Crap service plan just one of many little extra charges you will catch on your bill
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It's the same person LOL i don't use periods on my phone if i was on a computer that would be a different story haha
Your lucky my phone didn't auto correct to something else I sent my boss a text one day and was trying to spell kati yet somehow it became marijuana let's just say I don't work there any more bahaha
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I don't know why, but I like you. Haha
Are you sure because I've already seen tmobile - ATT comercials on tv about there merge
Awwww thats sweet
I'm gonna hit your thanks button
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Thanks for all the replys guys but i won't be switching anytime soon because in my area (southern California) I have good signal and decent speeds. Sprint doesnt have good signal(in my area), Verizon is too expensive for me and t mobile isnt in the picture. When at&t and t mobile merge fully, we will be the national largest 4G network so why switch now?
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I really haven't had any problems out of them. Of course, I'm not the one paying the bill either. Lol. If I have a problem my mother-in-law can get it corrected with no questions asked. If I was using mobile data more than WiFi, my speeds wouldn't be that drastically different. D/l speeds are around 3.5 mbps, both mobile and WiFi. U/l speeds are 1.5 mbps on mobile, and .3 mbps on WiFi. I had iWireless prior to being added to the account, which runs on the Sprint network, and out here in T county TN, Sprint's service is terrible. With ATT, I actually get service at places that Sprint doesn't cover. My opinion is, after researching plan options from ATT and Verizon, that with the new data plans, Verizon is the most money hungry carrier of em all. 100 dollars for 5gbs per month? At least ATT you get 2gbs for only 30 dollars. With the options we currently have with ATT, if we got the same thing with Verizon, we would be charged over 300 dollars a month.
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ZeroRilix said:
I really haven't had any problems out of them. Of course, I'm not the one paying the bill either. Lol. If I have a problem my mother-in-law can get it corrected with no questions asked. If I was using mobile data more than WiFi, my speeds wouldn't be that drastically different. D/l speeds are around 3.5 mbps, both mobile and WiFi. U/l speeds are 1.5 mbps on mobile, and .3 mbps on WiFi. I had iWireless prior to being added to the account, which runs on the Sprint network, and out here in T county TN, Sprint's service is terrible. With ATT, I actually get service at places that Sprint doesn't cover. My opinion is, after researching plan options from ATT and Verizon, that with the new data plans, Verizon is the most money hungry carrier of em all. 100 dollars for 5gbs per month? At least ATT you get 2gbs for only 30 dollars. With the options we currently have with ATT, if we got the same thing with Verizon, we would be charged over 300 dollars a month.
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Agreed. And yours is $30 for 2gb? Here you get 2gb for $25, but I have unlimited and I havent seen my unlimited data being capped
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There has been no big change. Been with AT&T since 2000>>Cingular>>AT&T. If anything this backhaul thing is an improvement in my area. I get good customer service, albeit with Enterprise Customer Care...and yes they still try to cram stuff I don't need at me. I think most sales peeps are like that. I just take it upon myself to withstand the onslaught. There have been times I have found stuff on my bill that I didn't want / believe I asked for. Just call them up, and they have retro'd my bill every time with usually no fuss, and usually an apology. I can be down with that. Due diligence and direct/firm/clear and not a-holish communication goes a long ways in my experience...
Lol. Too funny
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There has been no big change. Been with AT&T since 2000>>Cingular>>AT&T. If anything this backhaul thing is an improvement in my area. I get good customer service, albeit with Enterprise Customer Care...and yes they still try to cram stuff I don't need at me. I think most sales peeps are like that. I just take it upon myself to withstand the onslaught. There have been times I have found stuff on my bill that I didn't want / believe I asked for. Just call them up, and they have retro'd my bill every time with usually no fuss, and usually an apology. I can be down with that. Due diligence and direct/firm/clear and not a-holish communication goes a long ways in my experience...
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One thing I forgot to mention. The great customer service
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tweaked said:
I don't know why, but I like you. Haha
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I know why after looking at your post in that other thread a couple up from this one...
Your "blowy removed" is an instant cult classic.
trell959 said:
Agreed. And yours is $30 for 2gb? Here you get 2gb for $25, but I have unlimited and I havent seen my unlimited data being capped
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Yeah, $30 is how much they charge us for the 2gb plan around here, which is around the Memphis area. I've just got the $15 200mb data plan as I only use data on WiFi exclusively. You have the "true" unlimited that ATT used to have. Users who had the plan back in their iPhone days, prior to upgrading to the Inspire, won't see their unlimited data capped. I think they feel it would be bad business to cap the data of former and current iPhone users with the old unlimited data plan. Good thing you got it when they still offered it.
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The only reason I use ATT is because it works at every military base i've been to where other phone companies don't. That being said I will be jumping to verizon once my contract is up haha
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Post your unlimited data usage thus far!

I've had this phone less than 2 weeks, grandfathered into vzw unlimited data. Needless to say I think vzw is going to hate me...
m52 power! said:
I've had this phone less than 2 weeks, grandfathered into vzw unlimited data. Needless to say I think vzw is going to hate me...
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I'm on virgin in canada and last month i used 42gb on my unlimited plan...
no fair i was on t-mobiles $20/month plan with 10gb/month and they 'changed' the plan without notice. so now i'm stuck with 5gb...
I'm only at about 1g use right now, work and home wifi (poor signal area) has been keeping my mobile data use down since I got this phone. I'll probably use about 3gigs next month though. Btw, I can see this thread creating some tension with those who don't have unlimited.
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Lieu10ant said:
no fair i was on t-mobiles $20/month plan with 10gb/month and they 'changed' the plan without notice. so now i'm stuck with 5gb...
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They did the same here. I called them up and they switched me back no problem.
And the purpose of the thread is to.......??????
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Purpose of this thread....Help show why Verizon did away with unlimited data?
No wonder why they are eliminating unlimited, what the heck do you do on your phone to use 28Gb? (tethering i assume)
haha nice. last semester in college, my wired connection wasn't working so i had to 'illegally' tether my atrixs' hspa+ for a week. used about 15gb in a week to watch live streams of the us open. thank god for unlimited data
with the extra ram this phone makes actual real life data speeds sooooo much faster than my other lte phones could do. I'm at 39 gigs so far with billing cycle ending the 29th. And that's without even having the gs3 the whole time, wonder what ill get to next month? Btw no tethering here, I just really like watching HD video
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Not too bad methinks..
I have to laugh at all the people who say a few of us who use high amounts of data is why a carrier will remove unlimited data for everyone. So they feel bitter at us for ruining it for everyone else and would rather blame us than their service provider, since its easier.
Oh please, don't you think these carriers would have just throttled or kicked off us few users, instead of forcing tiered plans on all their customers? Its all because of further maximizing profit, not because of us.
Doesn't bother me at all, I still have unlimited data just can't see how people are able to use that much data on a phone in a month.
Must have to have the phone plugged in all the time.
Most I have ever been able to do is 13 GB. I really had to try for that though.
Since July 9th.:
554 MB on Verizon
Since June 24th:
5.58 GB over wi-fi
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with the extra ram this phone makes actual real life data speeds sooooo much faster than my other lte phones could do. I'm at 39 gigs so far with billing cycle ending the 29th. And that's without even having the gs3 the whole time, wonder what ill get to next month? Btw no tethering here, I just really like watching HD video
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Hey, you don't happen to live around me do you? I keep getting a busy signal trying to access the data network..
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Hey, you don't happen to live around me do you? I keep getting a busy signal trying to access the data network..
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lol yes i believe i do. luckily i elected to buy the version of the galaxy s 3 that gets preference over others on the data network so sorry i guess everyone will have to wait for me to finish my download before its their turn. best decision i ever made, and to think i actually almost bought the gs3 that you have that gives the busy signal when others are using the network. man im glad i dodged that bullet haha
all sarcasm aside, has anyone ever actually had a problem with using verizons network that can be attributed to data hogs? this isnt 2007 and im not in att using an iphone. big deal, i use a lot of data that i pay for so what. any other user on verizon canuse the exact same amoutn of data as i choose to use bc verizon doesnt throttle the 4g speeds, youll just have to pay more than my price for it. dont hate those of us lucky enough to use all the data we want without paying any overage unless you also go around hating every verizon employee for getting a company discount on the same sevice you pay for. also, those of us on verizon who no longer have the unlimited data plan have access to a discount on upgrades that the unlimited users dont have the smae access to but we sure dont go around flaming others for only having to pay $199 for our $599 phones. every thing is a trade off
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Ignore the disabled data. That was coming from my Samsung Galaxy S II. The one not discontinued is from July 5th till now.
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Yay for forced data limits/throttle in the future. Vzw doesn't guarantee any "grandfathering". It says right in the contract they can change terms on you and it gives you a free out to go to other carriers. The whole –look at what I can do is quite childish. Whatever.
Heck I use 30gb at home on Cox between two computers and a ps3 and pay for 50gb
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A guy over on the Rezound forums hit 1TB. I'm sitting at about 9GB this month.
And for the people bleating about this being why they did away with unlimited data--no. Just shut up. They did it out of pure greed. LTE is cheap, and for every person using 30gb there's 10 people using 500mb. Verizon might be losing money on some customers, but in the aggregate, they were still making money hand over fist, even with unlimited data. But they can make more with shared/tiered. Guess which they went with?
I'm normally around wifi except when I go workout so I rarely break 2gb. Even so I have no problems with data hogs. I've worked a number of years at an isp and I can tell you data hogs are not the problem unless if the network engineers are total idiots. A properly managed network will prevent heavy users from bogging down the network during peak usage.
But many of you guys buy right into the carrier's manufactured bandwidth crisis so they can justify charging $15 per gb.
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Hello Everyone,
I am new to this whole rooting thing after i just got my new HTC One M8. I figured i'd give it a shot and little behold it worked out fairly easy. I had a Galaxy S3 and S4 and was too scared to root them but after getting my new HTC i decided hey why not give it a shot so i can get free hot spotting on my unlimited data plan. All these guides and tutorials really helped me out a lot. Thanks to all the devs and people who answered questions that i couldnt ask lol.
Welcome and enjoy
Hello! How did you manage to get unlimited data with Verizon? Were you grandfathered in? I really wish I could have kept my unlimited data, but I lost it a while back.
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I still have unlimited grandfathered in. I make full use of it lol... 30gb/month on avg.
(I don't have a stable internet connection where I am so 4g tether is all I use)
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David 617 said:
I still have unlimited grandfathered in. I make full use of it lol... 30gb/month on avg.
(I don't have a stable internet connection where I am so 4g tether is all I use)
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Whoa, 30gb/mo?! Ha, way to get your money's worth! I'm on unlimited still too, but usually hover at the 6-7gb/mo range.
Have you noticed any speed reductions from big red's throttling? I've read that all of the major providers throttle speeds for the top x% of bandwidth users. I haven't noticed anything though, and 4g speeds are still great in my area
I unfortunately have to rely on my tethering for internet too. I live down a long dirt lane that no cable internet company wants to build down. I also don't have unlimited internet on my phone, so my cell phone bill is through the roof. School requires me to use my computer a lot so normally I have to buy around 15-30 gb of data per month. Beyond expensive.
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