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Verizon Boosts Price of Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans By $20 (theverge.com)
nicholasjay writes: In November, Verizon Wireless is going to start charging its customers with the grandfathered "unlimited data" plans an extra $20 for the data. This is obviously an attempt to get people off of the old unlimited data plans. Even though a Verizon spokesperson confirmed the change, I'm hoping they won't go through with this plan — but right now I'm weighing all my options.
I've been hanging around on my old grandfather'd Verizon plan for ages because of the unlimited data. I had been recently considering switching to Google Fi. This just dropped a 50 ton weight on the other end of the see-saw I've been balancing on. Good bye and good riddance Verizon!
If I had the time, I'd write an app to burn data just to piss off big red. Since I'll be paying almost double for my unlimited data, it sure seem likes I should start getting a better value for my money?
Seems like a simple app:
-->If on 4G with excellent signal and over some battery full % (user configurable)
------>Download random data and discard, just to burn bandwidth.
------>Rinse/Repeat
I've put of with a lot of BS from VZW to keep my grandfathered unlimited plan (locked bootloaders, crippled features VZW disables, etc), but jacking up the price like this really pisses me off.
T-Mobiles 'unlimited' isn't.
It's near enough. Their highest tier 4G/LTE (yes, annoyingly called unlimited) allows for 21GB of high speed data before dropping down to 128KB/s. Same with AT&T's grandfathered plan. Don't know about Sprint, but I doubt its any higher.
You also get data stash - I have 20GB in my stash and build it every month. Occasionally I dip into it (like when I do a lot of driving around for trips or business).
With TMO, you get 7GB/mo of tethering with that plan - and the data stash can leverage that so you can in one month tether 10's of GB if you need it.
Also music streaming is zero-rated on TMO with most streaming services (Apple music, Google, Amazon, Spotify, Pandora, etc) covered. So you're not going to have to spend GB's on that either.
Maybe you can get unlimited with VZ, but do they allow for tethering as well? Do they zero-rate music streaming?
T-mobile is as good as you can get right now without going for the "unicorn" of truly unlimited.
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