Sprint Starts Enforcing Tethering Cap, Confuses Users 'Truly Unlimited Data for Your Phone' -- Or Not? While Sprint insists they're dedicated to offering unlimited data, the writing has been on the wall for some time that this dedication may not have the longest shelf life -- particularly as Sprint struggles with LTE build costs and iPhone subsidies. Last fall Sprint killed off unlimited data for everyone but smartphone users, stating they'd finally start enforcing usage limits on tethering Sprint had traditionally ignored. Not everybody apparently got notifications, with users who thought they had unlimited tethering (because unofficially, they did) annoyed to realize they now face a shiny new cap when tethering. The confusion appears to be driven by the fact Sprint never enforced their long-standing tethering cap, only just recently sending an e-mail to users stating enforcement would begin this month. Sprint tells Fierce Broadband Wireless that while the tethering cap is not new, they only just got the technology in place to track usage this month: "Customers with the mobile hotspot and phone-as-a-modem add-on plan have always had a 5 GB limit. The issue was Sprint did not have the capability to enforce that, meaning we weren't tracking it," said Sprint spokewoman Kristin Wallace. Now that Sprint has implemented usage-tracking technology, "we do know when customers get to that limit," she added. Sprint's smartphone data service (if you don't tether) remains unlimited, but the company's advertisements promising "truly unlimited data for your phone" appears to be confusing some. It's not clear how long unlimited data for smartphones will last, since despite Sprint's best intentions to be price disruptive with unlimited data, pressure from the nation's dominating duopoly carriers, huge iPhone subsidies and steep LTE network build costs could force them to follow the pack on smartphone caps eventually.
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 |  | | | Re: Never Technically it still is within smartphones - only using as a hotspot it's not and that's nothing new.
I Pandora all day long at work, will put it to the test. | |
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EARTH | Re: Never Correct. This is not news.
Pandora doesn't use that much. It's 32kbps on the normal setting, which allows me to stream almost every day for most of the day at work and stay under 2GB. | |
| | | | | | Re: Never Actually it's closer to 64kbit/s if you have a phone that can handle stereo audio. On the high quality setting it's around 80kbit/s. | |
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| Re: Never I've talked to the Pandora support folks, and the numbers support it. It's 32kbps, 64 on the high quality setting. They say about an extra 5MB/hour for metadata and album artwork.
32kbps = 15MB/hour + overhead
64kbps = 30MB/hour + overhead
At 15MB/hour, listing 8 hours a day, for 22 days a month:
8*15 = 120MB/day
120MB*22 = 2.64GB/mo
If you listen all day, for maybe 15 days a month, but pause it when you aren't listening, like I do, you end up using like 1.5GB or less on Pandora, leaving 500MB for everything else, which isn't bad at all. | |
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join:2003-12-07
Alexandria, VA | Re: Pandora My wife's monthly usage is about 2.5GB - 3GB, about 95% of which is from Pandora streaming, at most 2 hours per weekday while driving her kids-shuttle.
No, she doesn't leave streaming on. I have Llama app shut down Pandora when the phone gets undocked from the car. | |
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| | Easy choice. If you can't meter your customers' usage, then don't put a limit on it. That's what they had in place for years. Now that they have the potential to monitor the usage, and 'unlimited' will probably be on its way out (sooner rather than later). | |
| | | | Re: Easy choice. people knew this was coming when they brought out the iPhone on their network. T did it, and then VZW did it, it was a given that Sprint was the next. soon it will be limited on the phones. Sprint's just letting the others test out the waters. | |
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| | Unlimited is a mirage No wireless carrier is going to be able to sustain unlimited. Not with people who do things like leave their phones streaming pandora all day, all night even when no one is listening, using unlimited data "just because I can." | |
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kudos:5 | Re: Unlimited is a mirage said by fifty nine:No wireless carrier is going to be able to sustain unlimited. Not with people who do things like leave their phones streaming pandora all day, all night even when no one is listening, using unlimited data "just because I can."
The abusers make it bad for everyone. | |
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| Re: Unlimited is a mirage said by Linklist:said by fifty nine:No wireless carrier is going to be able to sustain unlimited. Not with people who do things like leave their phones streaming pandora all day, all night even when no one is listening, using unlimited data "just because I can."
The abusers make it bad for everyone. what about those of us that stream music and actually listen to it for 11hrs a day? is that still abuse being that i am actually listening?
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kudos:1 | Re: Unlimited is a mirage I was using about 5-15GB each month with Sprint.
I set up my rooted phone as a hotspot and used it to stream 320 kbps music through my Logitech Squeezebox while watching something like the Euro 2012 matches or some other sports event with my Slingbox app for 5-6 hours each day.
I've since switched to Verizon with an HTC Rezound and a 22GB limit. I'll chow down on data like there is no tomorrow, but I'm paying a premium for this privilege. Although, after seeing the new Verizon shared plans, $80 for 22GB of data with hot spot seems like a steal. | |
| | | | | | said by boogi man:said by Linklist:said by fifty nine:No wireless carrier is going to be able to sustain unlimited. Not with people who do things like leave their phones streaming pandora all day, all night even when no one is listening, using unlimited data "just because I can."
The abusers make it bad for everyone. what about those of us that stream music and actually listen to it for 11hrs a day? is that still abuse being that i am actually listening? Are you in one location doing that? How about wifi? That's how I do it... | |
| | | | | | | Re: Unlimited is a mirage So transfer the use from one capped service to another capped service? Sounds like a win-win situation there. | |
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| | | | | No it should not be and neither should any example be called abusing. Why do these cell phone companies sell these smart phones that can do a lot of things, then when the user uses the phone to its ability they get capped in one form or another. Fer crying out loud stop selling smart phones that can stream movies or music or do what ever so your customers can't "abuse" them or stop selling unlimited data plans. Or get more backhaul. So what if a person has a smartphone and uses it to its potential?
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| | | | | | | Re: Unlimited is a mirage said by bobgwen:No it should not be and neither should any example be called abusing. Why do these cell phone companies sell these smart phones that can do a lot of things, then when the user uses the phone to its ability they get capped in one form or another. Fer crying out loud stop selling smart phones that can stream movies or music or do what ever so your customers can't "abuse" them or stop selling unlimited data plans. Or get more backhaul. So what if a person has a smartphone and uses it to its potential?
Wireless carriers are for the most part doing away with unlimited data plans. They are also killing off grandfathering. Initially unlimited may have seemed like a good idea, and everyone wouldn't have abused it... unfortunately people did abuse it, and smartphone popularity exploded so even if there wasn't widespread abuse, the limited spectrum and towers (which are expensive, beyond the understanding of most here) couldn't keep up. It's not like they could just go get more spectrum out of thin air. It is a limited natural resource. More towers aren't an easy proposition either. They have to be put somewhere and no one wants to see them or have them near their homes, schools or anywhere else.
So unlimited plans are indeed going away, and it's about time too. | |
| | | | | | | No, they need to go back to letting us choose what services we want. If you want to stream, you pay extra for that service. You want email, you pay for that, you want texting, you pay, want .. oh wait, we already do... nevermind.  | |
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Tulsa, OK | said by boogi man:said by Linklist:said by fifty nine:No wireless carrier is going to be able to sustain unlimited. Not with people who do things like leave their phones streaming pandora all day, all night even when no one is listening, using unlimited data "just because I can."
The abusers make it bad for everyone. what about those of us that stream music and actually listen to it for 11hrs a day? is that still abuse being that i am actually listening? I stream about 4-7 hours a day streaming tuneIn radio,podcast,Netflix,Slingplayer,Bloomberg,etc and using Skype on my grandpa unlimited at&t IPhone. About 4-8 gig a month. Switches to wifi when I arrive home. I'm not worried about it and I am already capped at 3 gig.
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| | | I agreed the abusers are bringing on tiered data faster, but it would have happened even without them, cell providers know everything is moving to the data connection and unlimited data for $30 doesn't make enough money for their greedy investors. | |
| | | | | Re: Unlimited is a mirage said by MovieLover76:I agreed the abusers are bringing on tiered data faster, but it would have happened even without them, cell providers know everything is moving to the data connection and unlimited data for $30 doesn't make enough money for their greedy investors.
Suit yourself if you want to live on minimum wage and only make "enough" money.
An investor's goal is maximum return on investment. If that's incompatible with your life philosophy, well that's too bad. | |
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| Re: Unlimited is a mirage quote:
An investor's goal is maximum return on investment. ...
And it is only a matter of time before they too get capped if this continues to progress in an anti-consumer direction...
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Conover, NC | Re: Unlimited is a mirage I would click "Like" coldmoon, but we don't have that option. I completely agree. | |
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It will all come crashing down its just a matter of time ... it will be done one of 2 ways New Regulations to Break the Monopolies up, or Citizens with Guns! | |
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| | | | | said by fifty nine:said by MovieLover76:I agreed the abusers are bringing on tiered data faster, but it would have happened even without them, cell providers know everything is moving to the data connection and unlimited data for $30 doesn't make enough money for their greedy investors.
Suit yourself if you want to live on minimum wage and only make "enough" money. An investor's goal is maximum return on investment. If that's incompatible with your life philosophy, well that's too bad. Well maybe we need to get rid of you investors, that will solve half the economic problem we have in this economy.  | |
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kudos:5 | Re: Unlimited is a mirage said by beans :said by fifty nine:said by MovieLover76:I agreed the abusers are bringing on tiered data faster, but it would have happened even without them, cell providers know everything is moving to the data connection and unlimited data for $30 doesn't make enough money for their greedy investors.
Suit yourself if you want to live on minimum wage and only make "enough" money. An investor's goal is maximum return on investment. If that's incompatible with your life philosophy, well that's too bad. Well maybe we need to get rid of you investors, that will solve half the economic problem we have in this economy. Yeah, that will solve the problem(/sarcasm). All that will do is eliminate more jobs in the US as your hated investors invest in Asia instead of the US. | |
| | | | | | | | Re: Unlimited is a mirage said by Linklist:Yeah, that will solve the problem(/sarcasm). All that will do is eliminate more jobs in the US as your hated investors invest in Asia instead of the US.
True, but then America can work on recovery after the initial hit, and we can use those hated greedy investors to bring down Asia, and the countries America doesn't like. See even evil can be manipulated, I mean used for some good. | |
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Yes we could do without the lazy ass wall-street thugs ..... shoot them all .... and living on earth would return back to normal! | |
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| said by fifty nine:No wireless carrier is going to be able to sustain unlimited. Not with people who do things like leave their phones streaming pandora all day
Even worse, there's bittorrent apps on the android market with millions of downloads and thousands of comments of people bragging about the enormous amounts of seeding they have done over their wireless plans. | |
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| said by fifty nine:No wireless carrier is going to be able to sustain unlimited. Not with people who do things like leave their phones streaming pandora all day, all night even when no one is listening, using unlimited data "just because I can."
Streaming pandora during the night actually does almost nothing to the infrastructure as a whole. There is a fixed cost in setting up for example 500 mbps of capacity and if that person at night is the only one using it then it doesnt matter at all. Its the people who do bittorent during peak hours 4-9 pm that have the biggest impact. | |
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kudos:1 | said by fifty nine:No wireless carrier is going to be able to sustain unlimited. Not with people who do things like leave their phones streaming pandora all day, all night even when no one is listening, using unlimited data "just because I can."
If pandora can take down their towers.. Then i'd think they may need to take a look at their technology and as to why they are even offering data.. Most pandora users are streaming at the lower quality rate, and it will stop after soo much time of inactivity. Paid customers get a better rate but still not that much and I believe it even stops after 5 hours of streaming..
I can understand someone constantly downloading/uploading files like a server being a problem, but just using their service? Its stupid.. Why bother offering it | |
| | | | | Re: Unlimited is a mirage The amount of capacity is like the amount of money one earns. You'll find a way to fill it. | |
| | | | | Pandora was just one use, mentioned by someone here in a previous thread.
There are many other ways to abuse apart from streaming, including p2p and constant use of bandwidth hungry apps.
Mobile is much more limited than cable, DSL or FTTH. A lot of people don't seem to realize that. | |
| | | | | | Re: Unlimited is a mirage LOL, like using your phone for intended purposes like pandora is abusing it. So with this logic because you have posted so many times on this thread now you are abusing it, even though thats what this site is made for? | |
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I have trully unlimited and guess what I will continue to have it until i change my plan. | |
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join:2001-04-18
Douglasville, GA | Unlimited for your "Phone" This is easy for anyone to understand.
Unlimited= "Phone"
Limited= "hotspot" or "modem"
See, not so hard to understand. | |
| | | | Re: Unlimited for your "Phone" said by SysOp:This is easy for anyone to understand.
Unlimited= "Phone"
Limited= "hotspot" or "modem"
See, not so hard to understand.
Or...
"Phone" = Unlimited
"hotspot" or "modem" = Limited
Still, some people will Fail To Get It. I regard that as depressing commentary on our "education" system and our "news" media, both of which seem bound and determined to make the public dumber and dumber day by day.
I'm glad I never became addicted to mobile data. | |
| | | | | Re: Unlimited for your "Phone" Not so fast there buckwheat. It's kinda already connected therefore, it's really a router, not a modem. It doesn't DIAL anything and #777 doesn't count. So, Sprint seen fit to charge me extra for data, by god, I'm going to use it as I see fit. I don't "teather" like some do but I have used my phone, with blue tooth and cable, to access the internet pip and I will continue. When sprint wants to give me credit for no data useage when I pay for it, fine, I'll accept that. Till then, I'll keep plowing along. Hey Dan, hows that contract with Ericsson working out for ya? Hear they are canning more highly experienced techs to save a buck. No one is going to want your hodge podge LTE network if there's no one left behind who knows how to fix it. Just saying  | |
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Bel Air, MD | Why I Left Sprint Was a very loyal Sprint user for over 10 years. Then in the last two years, they started this penny pinching. And sure while I wasn't getting the greatest speeds, I liked the value.
Then I said, F it and left. Reason is because I saw the writing on the wall. I got tired of low speeds. I became more affluent (got raises at work) and figured it was time to pay for quality service. Moved to AT&T and even tho I pay about $30-$40 more a month, it's worth it. I get to tether without fear and I get blazing fast HSPA+ and LTE (Baltimore).
Sometimes, you get what you pay for. I started to demand high quality speeds and I went to AT&T for it. The sim card also is great cause it makes seamless cell phone swapping a breeze. | |
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join:2003-07-03
Boston, MA | It's only confusing if you're dumb I like real unlimited as much as anyone, but there's nothing confusing about it. Using the internet on an external device connected to your phone doesn't give you unlimited, using the internet on your phone does. I can draw a flowchart if it would help. | |
| | | | Re: It's only confusing if you're dumb dur, but what if you are like, too dumb to like, read the flowchart lol | |
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Glen Head, NY | The Silver Lining The good news in all this, at least from my experience, is that they will not have to throttle people down to a slower speed since it already behaves like a throttled service It looks like overages are the way they are going to go. However, unless you are in a good service area (I am not), I cannot figure out how one can use 5GB in a month. With speeds that averaged between 250K -350K along with signal drops, I was lucky to get 1 GB down in a month before I gave up and turned it off.
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| All I got to say is LOL ALL I got to is to say LOL I knew Sprint wasnt truly unlimted data all along they are just like all other carriers. Everybody is saying Mobile Wireless is going to be next hot thing for internet service well its not you will be paying alot more a month just for that alone if you just went with a fixed wireless internet service provider....... Ya its great to have mobile internet if your not at home and on the road but it sucks if you suck all the data on your plan and have to eat a big a$$ bill at the end of the month LOL!!!! | |
| | | Wonder how this will work on rooted phones... By the way I read the article, this only affects users who actually PAY for Phone as a Modem or a Tethering plan. Since sprint data is still unlimited on a Smart Phone, anyone who has rooted their device still will enjoy unlimited by the sounds of it all? Correct me if I'm wrong, but rooted tether will just show up as normal data since you aren't under a PAM plan? | |
| |  warriorsIt's A Great Time Out
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San Jose, CA | Re: Wonder how this will work on rooted phones... that's right | |
| |  Subaru1-3-2-4Premium
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Greenwich, CT | said by jc100:By the way I read the article, this only affects users who actually PAY for Phone as a Modem or a Tethering plan. Since sprint data is still unlimited on a Smart Phone, anyone who has rooted their device still will enjoy unlimited by the sounds of it all? Correct me if I'm wrong, but rooted tether will just show up as normal data since you aren't under a PAM plan?
I came here to find out about this too.. at one point I hit almost 50 GB in a month until I just slowed down manually.
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| steven sPremium
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Dearborn, MI | I don't get it Customers are upset that they are getting what they paid for? | |
| | | It's a jip! This took a hard right turn!! If they are going to cap tethering, then stop charging $30/mo to use the internet I already pay for. | |
| | |  Eh.
Too bad. At least I'm enjoying free tethering with Easy Tether.
And if the family needs to use the Internet, I open up the WiFi tether app (for rooted phones) and let 'em have it.
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|  JEJE 's BACK BABYPremium
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Charlotte, NC | WHO'S THE STUPID ONE? For the life of me, I cannot understand why these idiots who could never find anything to use the UNLIMITED service for, calls people who CAN find a use for it, abusers?
NO, we are not abusers. We simply know the technology. And know how to maximize what is being offered. Unlike these old geezers out there, who could never find much use in their life to catch up with the times.
So there, if I'm an abuser, you're a geezer. I worked for Sprint for about a year, and that company flippin sucks. The Customer Service atmosphere was like slavery. Prisoners have it better.
Now, let me tell you, Sprint has always been the same. Being that Verizon and AT&T would go in one direction and Sprint found it necessary to go down the lone dark alley. Then, in the middle of the game, they would change the rules when it didn't go their way, and then start to FOLLOW the other 2. It has never worked for Sprint. AND IT NEVER WILL.
Remember the Short Mail fiasco? Now we have so-called real SMS. that sometimes never worked well. Remember the Picture Mail service? We have so-called real MMS.This is how Sprint rolls.
BTW, The HotSpot service was Unlimited, until they changed the rules of the game last year, to have a 5GB limit. Duh.. I worked at Sprint, so I know. The only reason that they were not charging customer for going over that 5GB limit, was they had no way to track it. It was all over the intranet (for you old geezers, that means the internal website that EMPLOYEES are able to access for information about the company and employment), but we could never tell that to the customer.
Now that they have the ability to track usage, they are going to start changing the rules again. Same old Sprint...even if they have Dan Hesse. Same old Board, same old Investors. New CEO...Nothing changes, except the front of being a customer oriented company.
Sprint sold their Data service as being TRULY Unlimited, to differentiate themselves from the other 2. Nothing hard about that to understand. Unlimited is unlimited, meaning there is no limit, no cap. So if one guy wants to stream Pandora for 3 months straight, that's the service he was SOLD...UNLIMITED!
If I wanted to Tether my Rooted HTC Evo 4G with my Laptop for days at at time, I could and did, because I was rooted. and I didn't have to pay $29.95 for an UNLIMITED Hot Spot service.
You see, geezers, I know the technology. And if there was something I did NOT know, I was smart enough to know how to use my Browser, and navigate to a service called Google.com. Google is and will always be your friend (even if they changed it for the worse). It still gets you want you want. I should have a Doctorate in Google.
So, this means if you are too old or dumb to adapt to the current way of life and you are stuck in the 60's and 50's, GET OVER IT! Life will never be that way again...EVER! ADAPT TO TECHNOLOGY!
And please learn why your TVs picture has suddenly changed to no Signal. it's because you've changed the input. Don't know what that means? Google is your friend.
NOW...
I now live in Charlotte NC, and the Call Center here is horrible. Supervisors shafting and talking to employees like they are a POS. I always wanted to work at Sprint, but now I wish I had never accepted that position and relocated here. The company is bad. Their business practices are terrible.
So for those people or geezers who only sit around mumbling about things they think they know...TRY AGAIN!
Now I'll tell you, I live in a very green area. That means my service here is pretty bad. They only areas that have full blazing 4G or 3G are the Hood, or urban populated areas. I lived in one here, and the service is great when u get full bars of 4G....But other than that, if you don't live in a COVERED area, you better switch to Verizon or AT&T.
When I lived in Brooklyn, I used to think people were crazy when they said Sprint's service sucked in fringe areas....Now I understand what they were talking about. I apologize for doubting you.
That whole Verizon users vs Sprint users that used to take place on HoFo was crazy. Because Sprint users who stood up for Sprint lived in the city or an urban area. Living in the Country truly changes things. | |
| | | Wish the FCC would wake up and do their job.. Sprint should just do away with unlimited data and offer an 5 or 10gb cap.
Now, how I use the data I paid for, is none of their business.
Charging to tether should be illegal.
It's absurd and the FCC is long overdue to step in and tell cell phone providers to cut it out.
It's like me selling someone water, and then trying to double charge for sharing their water with their dog. Once I sold them the water, it's their water, and they can do with it whatever they want.
Data is data. Zero additional service is required to accommodate a tethered device. Charging for tethering is double charging for data we have already paid for. Hell.., cell carriers have to spend beaucoup dollars to buy systems to sniff traffic to even determine if an user is tethering.
But if Sprint is smart, they would dump unlimited for a cap and be the cool provider that allows tethering at no charge. And they could stand back and laugh if the FCC wakes up and cracks down on carriers for double charging via charging to tether.
And Sprint should absolutely dump the 50gb+ per month bandwidth hogs that are collectively ruining data service for everybody else.
But, If Sprint goes evil and starts sniffing traffic to try to catch people tethering, they are just going to be wasting money to see OpenVPNs pop up everywhere. That's an arms race no provider can, ultimately, win. And I'm not even going to start on the whole practice of installing monitoring malware on handsets. I hope they learned something from the whole CIQ fiasco. People get pissed when you delay updates (ICS, *cough*, *cough*) to install malware that waste customer's data quota and battery life.
C'mon Sprint.. Do the right thing. Androids and Iphones with 8gb data cap, free tethering, and price points cheaper than Verizon and ATT = equals subscriber growth that sends you stock up over the $4 per share bar. | |
| | | This isn't news. Karl already reported about tethering being capped last year: »Sprint Caps Official Tethering at 5GB
So now they start enforcing a policy that they announced many months ago and somehow that's an opportunity for the umpteenth time for Karl to push his agenda that Sprint will soon be ending unlimited data on phones. I guess if you keep repeating the same thing it'll come true eventually...right? | |
| | | FAP No plans for caps but there will be a FAP where they can hold the right to remove anyone abusing or using torrent, and there working on blocking torrent traffic, and if your a Sprint cx now you will have noticed that data to certian sites is proxied or using multi media streaming limits (like youtube my buffer hulu works fine) because there is a private agreement between them for distribution they play there adds too. The things i know | |
| | | Just returned to Sprint I just came back to Sprint after a brief (we're talking one month) period with AT&T for the sole reason that I hit AT&T's 3GB data cap less than three weeks into the billing cycle. If Sprint defects and goes to applying data caps to their Smart phone plans, I'm going to be pissed. I don't consider myself a power user...but 3GB a month is unreasonable. I hate carriers who stifle usage and innovation with data caps...should be unlimited. But if they cannot keep it unlimited , then at least cap it at something reasonable...perhaps 7-10Gb/month | |
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Herndon, VA | It was never unlimited. Why is this getting started again.. Sprints data on devices other than phones was never unlimited.. They just didn't enforce the caps until now.. Why is this even being rehashed over and over. I guess some people have the attention span off a 3 year old on a sugar high. | |
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