| Mobile Broadband Plan Changes - No more Unlimited Data Copied from Here >>>> Mobile Broadband Plan and Mobile Hotspot Add-on Changes starting November 2011
Last Updated: Oct 05, 2011
If you subscribe to 3G/4G Mobile broadband service or have a Mobile Hotspot Add-on for your phone, you may have received a notification from Sprint that the data allowances for this service are changing. Please see below for details on the data allowances that will begin with your next bill following notification. Visit sprint.com/termsandconditions for other important information.
Data usage limits when using 3G/4G Mobile broadband devices
If you have a mobile broadband device such as a tablet, netbook, notebook, USB card, connection card or Mobile Hotspot device, effective beginning with your next bill following notification, your on-network monthly data allowance will no longer include unlimited 4G.
There are no changes to your monthly recurring charges, on-network overage rates, off-network overage rate, or off-network data allowance. For information on how much 3G and 4G data you currently use, visit sprint.com/mysprint. Find out what you can do with 3GB, 5GB or 10GB of data here. |
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 dib22
join:2002-01-27
Kansas City, MO
kudos:2 | Sounds like an opportunity to get out of contract if you were looking to 
I wish they would quit treating data on a handset different than data on other devices... it is all the same data. |
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| This pertains to ALL mobile broadband devices (Overdrive, MiFi, etc.) Watch-out the overage charges will be about $52.00 per GB! |
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| What's the point of 4G is there is a CAP, looks like Sprint won't need the Verizon/T-Mobile deal to kill them, they will kill themselves. |
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dib22
join:2002-01-27
Kansas City, MO
kudos:2 | said by Dexter1992:What's the point of 4G is there is a CAP, looks like Sprint won't need the Verizon/T-Mobile deal to kill them, they will kill themselves.
It's all about the Benjamins |
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cbobby
join:2009-06-14
New Windsor, MD | it's the iPhone effect. all carriers learned from the AT&T experience. The iPhone users crashed their network and all users suffered. This is a pre-empt to conserve network capacity
IMHO.... |
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| What does the iPhone have to do with anything? This has to do with data on air cards, tablets and mobile hot spots, not phones. And this pertains to 4G wimax, which the iPhone 4 and 4S cannot do. The iPhone bears no influence on this.
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dib22
join:2002-01-27
Kansas City, MO
kudos:2 | said by Steve Mehs:What does the iPhone have to do with anything? This has to do with data on air cards, tablets and mobile hot spots, not phones. And this pertains to 4G wimax, which the iPhone 4 and 4S cannot do. The iPhone bears no influence on this.
I would have to agree generally with you that it's a pure money grab (especially charging a nickle a meg overage)... they are hoping people will move up to the 10GB plans thereby generating more recurring monthly, and those that don't will get burnt by a thousand dollar cell bill.
I suspect they will loose more revenue due to customers leaving after a "gotcha" bill than they will ever gain in increased monthly.
The iphone does have a very popular hotspot feature... so I can see them thinking it will gain them some cash for overages for the iphone users that will be showing up.
Now if they really want to remain the value leader in the market they can simply change that overage rate to something more reasonable... say 0.015 a MB... that would run you $15.36 a gig... which is still outrageous but not as bad as 0.05 a MB 
This does indeed apply to the 'hotspot' features on iphone and android phones (and others) as well. |
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If they wanted to conserve network capacity they should throttle users, no take away the unlimited feature. Plus with 4G you will burn your cap even faster. All I can say, if a user doesn't know, and many don't know how much a gig is, a lot of customers will have one huge shocking bill.
Looks like I will be staying with Millenicom's unlimited 3G plan, maybe they will come out with an unlimited 4G plan, but now 4G is useless without unlimited.
Sprint = Lets charge you more, while making you use our service less. |
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 AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ | reply to beenjammin
I have a 3G month to month plan soft capped plan. As far as I can tell, this is not affected, or there is another webpage.
Wouldn't they have to notify users in writing, not an email?
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mogamer
join:2011-04-20
Royal Oak, MI | reply to cbobby
said by cbobby:it's the iPhone effect. all carriers learned from the AT&T experience. The iPhone users crashed their network and all users suffered. This is a pre-empt to conserve network capacity
IMHO....
The real thing that Verizion and Sprint learned from ATT is instead of upgrading your network to be ready for iPhone users who use a lot of data, is that those users are willing to pay a lot of money for that usage. A double win for both Verizion and Sprint! |
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Your 3G is already capped, this really only affects the 4G.
From what I've read elsewhere, there will be a notification in customer's bills starting 11/1/2011, and the new caps will take place on the following billing cycle.
My major gripe here is that this cap is being imposed on all existing accounts, mid-contract. I purchased and activated my ODP in August, leaving me stuck with the remainder of the contract. I'm hoping that if I choose to leave because of this, Sprint will do the right thing and waive the ETF, but that's highly unlikely.
My other complaint is that Sprint advertises their 4G Mobile Broadband Hotspots as a "blazing fast" connection for multiple users. 3GB, 5GB, even 10GB goes pretty quick if you use this service as described in the advertisements. |
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AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ | my 3G is softcapped, I don't pay for overages... |
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dib22
join:2002-01-27
Kansas City, MO
kudos:2 | reply to beenjammin
said by beenjammin: I'm hoping that if I choose to leave because of this, Sprint will do the right thing and waive the ETF, but that's highly unlikely.
They will let you out of contract because of this. This is a significant change in terms of service.
Some have luck just having them mark the contract as "Fulfilled" and continuing the service sans contract, as sprint would rather have the monthly recurring fee from you than none. |
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Rob_Premium
join:2008-07-16
Mary Esther, FL | Then, I refuse to have 'net on my phone! I will just use it for phone/text. So much for innovation and freedom. I can eat 5 gigs for breakfast. I kinda wish we can setup a federal law that will not allow the ISP's/cell phone co's to keep the prices down and the cap's outlawed. Bandwidth is cheap and this is NOT NECESSARY! |
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Then, I refuse to have 'net on my phone! I will just use it for phone/text.
Did you even bother to read the OP? Phones have nothing to do with it. It's data cards, tablets and mobile hot spots
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I kinda wish we can setup a federal law that will not allow the ISP's/cell phone co's to keep the prices down and the cap's outlawed
The last thing we need is the government to step in a tell a business how they can make their profits. I cannot think of anything more unAmerican.
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dib22
join:2002-01-27
Kansas City, MO
kudos:2 | reply to Rob_
said by Rob_:I kinda wish we can setup a federal law that will not allow the ISP's/cell phone co's to keep the prices down and the cap's outlawed. Bandwidth is cheap and this is NOT NECESSARY!
Don't worry they will price themselves to death or a more reasonable price eventually... think back when they were selling a long distance call for $0.50 a min.
There are federal laws that already exists that would fix this situation we are seeing now. It's called collusion and the us cellco providers seem to be guilty of it. |
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 Jack_in_VAPremium
join:2007-11-26
Mathews, VA
kudos:1 | reply to Rob_
said by Rob_:Then, I refuse to have 'net on my phone! I will just use it for phone/text. So much for innovation and freedom. I can eat 5 gigs for breakfast. I kinda wish we can setup a federal law that will not allow the ISP's/cell phone co's to keep the prices down and the cap's outlawed. Bandwidth is cheap and this is NOT NECESSARY!
The ISP's and wireless carriers have to utilize caps and throttling to keep the handful of excessive bandwidth users from impacting the vast majority who only use reasonable amounts. |
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Jack_in_VAPremium
join:2007-11-26
Mathews, VA
kudos:1 | reply to dib22
said by dib22:There are federal laws that already exists that would fix this situation we are seeing now. It's called collusion and the us cellco providers seem to be guilty of it.
Cell companies managing their networks for the benefit of all their customers is not COLLUSION or illegal. |
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dib22
join:2002-01-27
Kansas City, MO
kudos:2 | said by Jack_in_VA:Cell companies managing their networks for the benefit of all their customers is not COLLUSION or illegal.
I'm not referring to them "managing their networks"... I'm referring to them all sticking to the same prices and "magic cutoff" numbers. They need to actually compete with one another in a free market... not agree to maintain prices/magic numbers to screw the consumer. |
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