data cap? throttling?? shut off?

[keyz16b]

H2O Wireless recently announced their $60 a month everything unlimited plan so I'm curious to find out if anyone has been cut off for being a high data user or if they've noticed any throttling of data after reaching a certain limit!

Also, how much data have you been using so far?!

[mbaverizon]

Yea someone posted theres speeds and yes they throttle there data, but its still unlimited

[fonezfonz]

Red Pocket is going to be getting the same plan. They are saying one gig cap.

[mbaverizon]

Iam lost , if there is such a small amount of people that use 2GB of data a month like Verizon says and only about 5% use more than 2GB, why is everybody putting caps on them???

[kecel]

If these 5% used 40% of all smartphone data while the other 60% was used by the remaining 95% of smartphone users then is allowing those 5% to use 5% of the bandwidth to consume 40% data really all that unfair? I, for one, would love to see 95% of smartphone users being able to use 95% of the bandwidth to consume 60% of all smartphone data. But instead what we're seeing is everyone switching to tiered data so that everybody is throttled across the board in the absence of infrastructure and spectrum to alleviate network congestion. Make sense?

[billm261]

Iam lost , if there is such a small amount of people that use 2GB of data a month like Verizon says and only about 5% use more than 2GB, why is everybody putting caps on them???

As smart phones become more popular there will be network constraints.

Corporate greed comes to mind. They can't make another nickel on Voice or Text so data is the only thing they can get you on.
They market these phones, tell you all the wonderful things they can do like Netflix, Youtube, Direct TV, Pandora etc and then limit just how much of that you can do.

[fonezfonz]

I spoke with a former Att mvno Master Distributor. They said that the Att mvno "unlimited" plan is indeed one gig 3/4g cap with a throttle afterwards to edge/gprs.


According to that former MD there are reports of people on H20 going through a gig in a day to a week and getting booted or shut off.

A lot of the initial euphoria of "unlimited" 3g/4g Att type data is going to get a nasty backlash with H20 , kind of like shortly after Simple Mobile came out. And yeah, Simple has the same one gig cap soft cap and throttle.

Red Pocket is reportedly saying it is unlimited but with a one gig cap and throttle in the fine print. They won't be the first Att mvno with "unlimited" data but will be one of the smarter ones for saying upfront (even Tmobile says its postpaid unlimited data plans have a 2 gig cap in the fine print).

As soon as the "unlimited" plan was announce, at least one astute Hofo asked upfront, "so, what's the cap?".

Live and learn.

[aka414]

That's fair enough really. Anyone who thought unlimited would be full speed for a prepaid service was kidding themselves.

[silentjudge]

That's fair enough really. Anyone who thought unlimited would be full speed for a prepaid service was kidding themselves.

Straight Talk is looking better and better. Based on experiences gathered in this thread, the limit is likely higher than 2GB a month, and the daily limit is probably 100MB to 150MB.

[painpour]

I spoke with a former Att mvno Master Distributor. They said that the Att mvno "unlimited" plan is indeed one gig 3/4g cap with a throttle afterwards to edge/gprs.


According to that former MD there are reports of people on H20 going through a gig in a day to a week and getting booted or shut off.

A lot of the initial euphoria of "unlimited" 3g/4g Att type data is going to get a nasty backlash with H20 , kind of like shortly after Simple Mobile came out. And yeah, Simple has the same one gig cap soft cap and throttle.

Red Pocket is reportedly saying it is unlimited but with a one gig cap and throttle in the fine print. They won't be the first Att mvno with "unlimited" data but will be one of the smarter ones for saying upfront (even Tmobile says its postpaid unlimited data plans have a 2 gig cap in the fine print).

As soon as the "unlimited" plan was announce, at least one astute Hofo asked upfront, "so, what's the cap?".

Live and learn.

There is no way on H2O to go through 1 GB of data per day. they have throttled it down so low that it's barely usable on my iPhone.

[Scottish Skyedance]

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I spoke with a former Att mvno Master Distributor. They said that the Att mvno "unlimited" plan is indeed one gig 3/4g cap with a throttle afterwards to edge/gprs.


According to that former MD there are reports of people on H20 going through a gig in a day to a week and getting booted or shut off.

A lot of the initial euphoria of "unlimited" 3g/4g Att type data is going to get a nasty backlash with H20 , kind of like shortly after Simple Mobile came out. And yeah, Simple has the same one gig cap soft cap and throttle.

Red Pocket is reportedly saying it is unlimited but with a one gig cap and throttle in the fine print. They won't be the first Att mvno with "unlimited" data but will be one of the smarter ones for saying upfront (even Tmobile says its postpaid unlimited data plans have a 2 gig cap in the fine print).

As soon as the "unlimited" plan was announce, at least one astute Hofo asked upfront, "so, what's the cap?".

Live and learn.

There is no way on H2O to go through 1 GB of data per day. they have throttled it down so low that it's barely usable on my iPhone.

This is possible.
One hour of 128kbps mp3 streaming costs 60mb per hour, so 17 hours can reach 1gb.

[painpour]

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This is possible.
One hour of 128kbps mp3 streaming costs 60mb per hour, so 17 hours can reach 1gb.

Theoretically it's possible but not practically. I can't stream much of anything.