MetroPCS has quietly discontinued offering its cheapest unlimited LTE data plan, for which it charged $40 per month. The company confirmed that the plan was dropped when MetroPCS ceased offering the Samsung Craft, its first LTE 4G phone, in late December. Moving forward, MetroPCS is offering its smartphone customers unlimited voice, messaging, email, and 1GB of streaming data for $50 per month. For $60 per month, MetroPCS customers gain unlimited streaming and access to Rhapsody and MetroStudio.
Users interested in MetroPCS now have three options if they want LTE, all designed to upsell, nudge or otherwise shove you in the direction of MetroPCS's own Metro themed content offerings:
•$60: Unlimited talk, text, Metroweb and email "with unlimited multimedia streaming and MetroSTUDIO Video On Demand."
Note their MetroWeb service limits the number and type of websites users can visit, something shaped undoubtedly by their sparse spectrum holdings. As the market shifts toward more open networks, platforms, and application stores MetroPCS seems intent on late 90's era funneling of users to their particular, closed vision of their own Internet. It would be interesting to see just how many users are willing to pay a premium for content in MetroPCS's little walled garden Utopia. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/M...Pricing-118117
On Androids "MetroWeb" is just the stock Android browser included in Froyo, Gingerbread, ICS, etc but renamed "MetroWeb". It's just the stock Android browser but set to MetroPCS as the "home" page.
So, a ton of people who use Android all over the world use the "MetroWeb" browser! -- as a lot of people use the stock Android browser that comes with their phone.
Your creed may be interesting, but your deeds are much more convincing.
MetroPCS has quietly discontinued offering its cheapest unlimited LTE data plan, for which it charged $40 per month. The company confirmed that the plan was dropped when MetroPCS ceased offering the Samsung Craft, its first LTE 4G phone, in late December. Moving forward, MetroPCS is offering its smartphone customers unlimited voice, messaging, email, and 1GB of streaming data for $50 per month. For $60 per month, MetroPCS customers gain unlimited streaming and access to Rhapsody and MetroStudio.
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Old news. Been discussed in other threads. I specifically posted it on January 20th, 10 days ago.
DOUBLE POSTER!!!!! gonna get salty crackers to find you!!! lol so let me get this straight they was planning to release a cheap $40 4g plan but at the end decided to back paddle? geeze oh well i dont care im happy with my $50 plan.
DOUBLE POSTER!!!!! gonna get salty crackers to find you!!! lol so let me get this straight they was planning to release a cheap $40 4g plan but at the end decided to back paddle? geeze oh well i dont care im happy with my $50 plan.
Starting today, consumers interested in any of MetroPCS’ 4G LTE Android phones can pair them with the affordable $40 4G LTE rate plan.
· The $40 4G LTE Plan:
o Includes unlimited talk, text and 4G Web browsing so consumers can surf the web as much as they’d like
o Includes 100MB of multimedia streaming access for consumers making the shift to mobile broadband and discovering new ways to access their multimedia content
o A good option for users who prefer access to WiFi since multimedia access - streaming content and downloads - over WiFi does not count toward the 100MB allowance
Starting today, consumers interested in any of MetroPCS’ 4G LTE Android phones can pair them with the affordable $40 4G LTE rate plan.
· The $40 4G LTE Plan:
o Includes unlimited talk, text and 4G Web browsing so consumers can surf the web as much as they’d like
o Includes 100MB of multimedia streaming access for consumers making the shift to mobile broadband and discovering new ways to access their multimedia content
o A good option for users who prefer access to WiFi since multimedia access - streaming content and downloads - over WiFi does not count toward the 100MB allowance
cool dont think id actually be missing the things not included plus don't really need metronav when you have the android one; does that count towards the streaming?
cool dont think id actually be missing the things not included plus don't really need metronav when you have the android one; does that count towards the streaming?
As I understand, only the data used by non-Metro apps (e.g., Android Navigation, Android Market, Gmail) counts toward your monthly allowance; data used by Metro apps (e.g., MetroNavigator, @Metro Store, mail@metro) does not count.
Unlimited MetroWEB®
MetroWEB gives you unlimited phone Internet access. You can find answers on Google; visit your favorite sites; check flight, sport and weather updates and everything else you love to do on the Internet — all from your cell phone.
Enjoy wireless mobile Internet at 4G speeds with MetroPCS! MetroWEB is available in Spanish as well.
It also says:
Stream 100 MB of music, video and other media on your phone.
So, does that mean it's really unlimited 4G internet? What do they consider multimedia? Youtube app usage? What exactly are they metering? Also, the 4G40 plan does not include IM services - how can they block that on an Android, all it is is data? To those of us who are rooted and using almost nothing stock, this may still give us the same services we have now. Can anybody confirm anything for us?
So, does that mean it's really unlimited 4G internet? What do they consider multimedia? Youtube app usage? What exactly are they metering? Also, the 4G40 plan does not include IM services - how can they block that on an Android, all it is is data? To those of us who are rooted and using almost nothing stock, this may still give us the same services we have now. Can anybody confirm anything for us?
The way it was explained to me means, if you use the YouTube app to view videos, the data would count toward your monthly allowance. If you use the MetroWeb (not Skyfire, Dolphin, etc.) browser to go to www.youtube.com, viewing YouTube videos would be unlimited. Same with Facebook...using the Facebook app counts, while using MetroWeb to go to www.facebook.com doesn't. Using the Gmail app counts, going to www.gmail.com on your MetroWeb browser doesn't count, and so on.
They have had some form of multimedia streaming cap since they introduced the LTE plans. So far no one has been able to nail down what that really means. I'm not MetroPCS even knows at this point. My personal guess is that it has something to do with streaming over LTE from the MetroSTUDIO and/or Rhaspody. Only thing to do if it concerns you is check the meter every now and then see if it moves.
MetroPCS Kills Off $40 4G Unlimited Plan
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But I had the better graphics. 
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