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Huh, interesting. I'd never even heard of an "unlimited" mobile data plan. Just did some research and it appears a few of our carriers just released nominally

Huh, interesting. I'd never even heard of an "unlimited" mobile data plan. Just did some research and it appears a few of our carriers just released nominally unlimited plans for the first time this year. However, they still have a data cap (10-50GB usually, depending on the plan), after which it's capped at 512kbps. So not really unlimited. These plans also start at $75/month (or like 55 USD). I don't envy your politics, but I envy your mobile data plans.

adventured 7y ago
Yeah naturally it's not unlimited, there's no such thing, it's always a marketing gimmick with fine print when a service provider uses that. You're going to hit a limit one way or another. T-Mobile as an example, has a four line plan at $35 per line avg, with "unlimited" data, with this note: "During congestion, the small fraction of customers using >50GB/mo. may notice reduced speeds." I've never used T-Mobile, so I don't know what kind of wall you realistically hit with them at that point. What I've seen in the US over the last few years is that people seem to have shifted heavily away from the old expensive cable & DirecTV plans and moved some of that expenditure over to streaming services (cheaper) and more expensive higher limit mobile data plans. Which makes sense given what consumers are most often using these days.
- tempestn 7y ago
  Of course nothing is truly unlimited. Still, I took a look at some of the US plans (AT&T etc.) and they're definitely better than what we get. The lowest ones start to throttle at 50GB, vs 10 for ours, and even the ones that don't throttle until 100 are cheaper than the 10GB ones here. To me it's a lot more reasonable to call something that may be throttled over 50 or 100GB "unlimited" vs something that will always be throttled (and to 512kbps!) at 10GB.
urbanjunkie 7y ago
You've never even heard of an unlimited mobile data plan, yet you're all over this thread with your "opinions". fuck off and stop wasting everyone's time.

adventured 7y ago

Yeah naturally it's not unlimited, there's no such thing, it's always a marketing gimmick with fine print when a service provider uses that. You're going to hit a limit one way or another. T-Mobile as an example, has a four line plan at $35 per line avg, with "unlimited" data, with this note: "During congestion, the small fraction of customers using >50GB/mo. may notice reduced speeds." I've never used T-Mobile, so I don't know what kind of wall you realistically hit with them at that point. What I've seen in the US over the last few years is that people seem to have shifted heavily away from the old expensive cable & DirecTV plans and moved some of that expenditure over to streaming services (cheaper) and more expensive higher limit mobile data plans. Which makes sense given what consumers are most often using these days.

tempestn 7y ago
Of course nothing is truly unlimited. Still, I took a look at some of the US plans (AT&T etc.) and they're definitely better than what we get. The lowest ones start to throttle at 50GB, vs 10 for ours, and even the ones that don't throttle until 100 are cheaper than the 10GB ones here. To me it's a lot more reasonable to call something that may be throttled over 50 or 100GB "unlimited" vs something that will always be throttled (and to 512kbps!) at 10GB.

urbanjunkie 7y ago

You've never even heard of an unlimited mobile data plan, yet you're all over this thread with your "opinions". fuck off and stop wasting everyone's time.