T-Mobile adds 1,500 minute plan with unlimited messaging and data for $80
February 27, 2011 – 8:55 pm
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Tags: Even More, T-Mobile, T-Mobile USA, Unlimited Data, Unlimited Text

Tags: Even More, T-Mobile, T-Mobile USA, Unlimited Data, Unlimited Text

T-Mobile is the only operator to give customers the Mobile Internet for a fixed-price. We never charge our customer’s more than they expect for their Mobile Internet in the UK.
Therefore you’ll never need to worry about how many emails you’ve sent, how long you’ve been on-line or the ‘data / GB’s’
Browsing means looking at websites and checking email, but not watching videos, downloading files or playing games. We’ve got a fair use policy but ours means that you’ll always be able to browse the internet, it’s only when you go over the fair use amount that you won’t be able to download, stream and watch video clips.
So Whats Changing? – From 1st February 2011 we will be aligning our fair use policies so our mobile internet service will have fair use of 500MB.
What Does This Mean? – We’ll always let you email and browse the internet and you’ll never pay more than you agree to. We do have a fair use policy but ours is there to make sure we deliver the best service possible to all our customers. This means that you’ll always be able to browse the internet.
So remember our Mobile Broadband and internet on your phone service is best used for browsing which means looking at your favorite websites like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, BBC News and more, checking your email and looking for information, but not watching videos or downloading files.
If you want to download, stream and watch video clips, save that stuff for your home broadband.
What are your thoughts on this?
Tags: Data, Fair Use Policy, T-Mobile, Unlimited Data
For voice and data alike, “unlimited” is a major buzzword among value carriers like Cricket, Virgin Mobile, and Boost Mobile lately — and when they can offer it for $10 or $20 less than the big guys, why shouldn’t it be? Boost is slicing the unlimited option in a new way this week with the announcement that it’s now offering unlimited nationwide voice, messaging, web, IM, email, and information for $2 a day, which if our rough math is correct, works out to $60 a month. That’s $10 a more than you pay if you just bite the bullet and prepay on a monthly basis, but obviously it’s a heck of a lot more flexible, too — and with these prepaid guys, flexibility is king.
Tags: Boost Mobile, Unlimited Data, Unlimited Plans, Unlimited Talk, Unlimited Text

Whereas AT&T’s move to tiered smartphone data pricing signaled “the end of unlimited” to some, Sprint subsidiary Virgin Mobile USA has just defied that notion with an all-you-can-eat broadband buffet priced at $40 per month. First reported by IntoMobile and confirmed today on the carrier’s Facebook page, the plan will replace existing $20, $40 and $60 monthly offerings that currently top out at just 5GB, so only those accustomed to paying $20 a month (for 300MB) won’t get a totally sweet deal. As you can see above, the $10 for 100MB over 10 days plan will still stay pat, so you can still choose whether to sip or gulp down Sprint network packets when the plans purportedly go into effect on August 24th.
Tags: Broadband2Go, Mobile Broadband, Sprint, Unlimited Data, Unlimited Data Plans, Virgin Mobile USA
Look out, Sprint: your $100 Unlimited Everything plan might not be a unique selling point for too much longer.
People in San Diego and Los Angeles, California recently started receiving offers to nab Verizon’s National Talk and Text plan — usually a $90 per-month affair — for just $70 bucks as part of a regional test. Paired with Verizon’s $30 unlimited data plan, that brings the cost for unlimited text, talk, and data down to $100 bucks a month, matching it feature-for-feature and dollar-for-dollar with Sprint’s offering.
Of course, it’s quite possible that Verizon has no intentions of rolling out this plan beyond San Diego and Los Angeles any time soon. And why would they? They’ve still got a reasonably large lead over AT&T as the largest carrier in the US (92.1 million vs 90.1 million) — and with a Verizon iPhone looking more likely than ever, they probably won’t have too hard of a time maintaining it. Verizon’s presumably not about to give up $20 bucks per month per customer out of the niceness of their heart, you know?
Tags: Unlimited Data, Unlimited Plans, Unlimited Talk, Unlimited Text, Verizon
A class action lawsuit has been filed in California, claiming that T-Mobile deceptively marketed its data plans as unlimited, while capping the data at 5 or 10 gigabytes before blocking off access to the 3G network and reducing the data transfer speeds. The complaint also mentions that the plaintiff purchased T-Mobile phones that required him to agree to a two-year contract, but there was no mention of a data cap on the contract. It’s quite common of carriers to impose speed caps on their data plans after a certain quota has been met, though it’s always best to inform the customer of such caps, so as to avoid such sticky situations. The suit requests an injunction preventing T-Mobile from advertising its data plans as such, preventing T-Mobile from selling the current “unlimited” data plans.
Tags: 3G Network, California, Class Action Lawsuit, Lawsuit, T-Mobile, Unlimited Data