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1 edit | Sprint Evdo cap Well I just got off a chat session with a Sprint representative and this is the whole conversation.
Connected to sprint-ap1.cnxchat.com
3:53:54 PM System Session ID:
3:53:59 PM System Please hold and the next available agent will be with you shortly.
3:58:42 PM System Lewis has joined this session!
3:58:42 PM System Connected with Lewis
3:58:47 PM Lewis Thank you for contacting Sprint. My name is Lewis. How may I assist you today?
4:00:13 PM Matt I was just wondering if there is any offical statement on a 5 Gb cap for Sprint mobile broadband?
4:01:08 PM Matt I have seen on dslreports about a 5 Gb cap coming soon
4:02:26 PM Matt I have the unlimited plan right now and use alot of bandwidth and dont wont to end up paying alot of overage
4:02:52 PM Lewis What type of device do you have?
4:03:05 PM Matt U720
4:03:57 PM Lewis And you have an unlimited data plan?
4:04:04 PM Matt yes
4:04:42 PM Lewis If you have a unlimited data plan you will not get charged for overages because the data that you use is unlimited
4:05:51 PM Matt so all this stuff on dslreports about Sprint inforcing a 5 Gb cap on all there services is false
4:06:42 PM Lewis Where are you viewing this information?
4:07:12 PM Matt www.dslreports.com
4:08:13 PM Matt Sprint To Impose 5GB Monthly EVDO Cap
300MB per month when you're off the network...
09:03AM Tuesday May 20 2008 by Karl
tags: business · wireless · bandwidth · caps · Sprint Mobile Broadband
Tipped by drew
When comparing Sprint and Verizon's EVDO service, Verizon usually came up short, given their 5GB monthly cap, and terms of service that restricts everything but browsing and e-mail. However, with Sprint suffering through a rocky financial stretch, it looks like their CEO has decided that customers were getting too much, for too little. drew directs my attention to a leaked memo posted to the Sprint users forum, which says monthly caps are coming:
Sprint reserves the right to limit throughput speeds or amount of data transferred and to deny, terminate, modify, or suspend service if usage exceeds 5GB per month in total or 300MB/month while off-network roaming. Check your subscriber agreement rights on Sprint.com.
There's no word yet just how tough enforcement will be. You may have to cross the bandwidth gestapo at Sprint several times during the year in order to have your wrist slapped. Sprint's CEO, in a meeting with employees, apparently told them he believes the caps will only really impact about 1% of their EVDO user base.
4:09:25 PM Matt This is what they have on the website
4:10:42 PM Lewis I apologize but we have not received any word on this information. I have even typed it into my system to see if we have information about this but we currently do not. I am not stating that the information you are viewing is false but there is no account of it in our system
4:11:13 PM Matt ok
4:11:51 PM Matt I even went to Sprint.com, but didnt see anything either.
4:12:37 PM Matt this is all I really wanted to know, thank you
4:12:47 PM Lewis Thank you again for contacting Sprint. We appreciate your business.
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