Unlimited Data

T-Mobile USA goes after "bring your own iPhone" users with unlimited and unlocked program

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Sep 10, 2012 a 11:38 pm

T-Mobile USA, which looks like it'll once again be the only major American carrier left without the iPhone on September 12, is trying to turn lemons into magenta-colored lemonade with an amped up unlimited and unlocked program for "bring your own iPhone" offers. Suzanne Lowry of T-Mobile's blog went over the highlights:

Sprint, Virgin tout unlimited, un-shared data, and ditching your un-iPhones

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Sep 1, 2012 a 12:57 am

Over the last week we've seen a couple amusing new commercials from Virgin Mobile (above) and Sprint (below) touting their unlimited data plans. Virgin goes so far as to suggest you arrange a "happy accident" for your old, non-iPhone. Sprint just wants you to "say no to sharing".

Verizon killing off unlimited plans with new LTE device purchases

By Simon Sage, Wednesday, May 16, 2012 a 11:08 pm

Verizon's CFO Fran Shammo mentioned at the J.P. Morgan Technology, Media, and Telecom conference recently that anyone migrating from 3G to 4G devices won't be able to grandfather in their old unlimited plan and will have to instead take a data share plan scheduled to launch this summer.

Judge awards victim of AT&T data throttling $850

By Jeremy, Friday, Feb 24, 2012 a 6:55 pm

In the latest chapter of the AT&T unlimited data throttling debacle, a small claims court judge in California has awarded an AT&T iPhone user $850 in damages due to AT&T significantly slowing the user's data speeds to "manage usage on it's network".

Sprint says no to throttling, still offering "true" unlimited data

By Andrew Wray, Friday, Jan 6, 2012 a 3:20 pm

After Dow Jones misconstrued some comments by Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, Sprint has come out with an official statement saying they do not throttle regular subscribers under their unlimited data plans.

Reports that Sprint throttles the top one percent of data users are false. Here are the facts:

Sprint does not throttle any postpaid phone data users for on-network or off-network usage. Sprint is the only national carrier offering smartphone users truly unlimited data with no throttling, metering or overages while on the Sprint network.

Sprint CEO: We throttle top 1 percent of data users [UPDATE]

By Andrew Wray, Thursday, Jan 5, 2012 a 7:41 pm

Hot off the Dow Jones Newsire comes a report that, according to their CEO Dan Hesse, Sprint is throttling the top 1 percent of data users, including their new iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S subscribers.

"For those that want to abuse it, we can knock them off," Hesse said at an investor conference Thursday. He said Sprint pares back data use for about 1% of users, a practice known as throttling.

Sprint now allowing iPhone 4 pre-orders, iPhone 4S tomorrow

By Andrew Wray, Thursday, Oct 6, 2011 a 5:17 pm

Sprint has started allowing customers to pre-order the 8GB iPhone 4 in either black or white flavors for $99.99. Sprint will also begin pre-orders for the new iPhone 4S starting tomorrow, likely at 12:01am PDT.

According to the description on Sprint's website, pre-orders will be available "while supplies last" and will ship to customers by the 14th or 15th of October. Customers planning to pre-order may want to head over to their website to secure their order in case supplies run dry.

Sprint will indeed offer unlimited data for iPhone users

By Andrew Wray, Wednesday, Oct 5, 2011 a 6:10 pm

Phone Scoop was able to confirm that Sprint, as rumored, will be offering iPhone customers unlimited data plans starting at $69.99.

Sprint today confirmed to Phone Scoop via telephone that the Apple iPhone 4S will have access to all the same voice and data plans (at the same rates) that Sprint's current smartphones do -- including unlimited 3G data and the 5GB mobile hotspot cap.

Sprint compatible iPad may already be ready for launch

By Allyson Kazmucha, Wednesday, Sep 14, 2011 a 12:25 pm

Apple and Sprint may have already completed work on a Sprint compatible iPad. 9to5Mac claims that the Sprint iteration of the iPad will join the rest of the current iPad line-up (GSM models and Verizon) before the holiday season. Given we've also heard confirmations of Sprint getting the iPhone 5, it would only make sense they'd eventually carry the iPad as well.

Sprint getting iPhone 5 in October, offering unlimited data plan [Updated]

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Sep 9, 2011 a 11:04 am

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Bloomberg is backing up the Wall Street Journal's story about Sprint getting iPhone 5 this October, but adds that Sprint will be offering an unlimited data plan to go with it.

Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) will offer Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone next month with unlimited data service plans to distinguish itself from rivals AT&T Inc. (T) and Verizon Wireless, according to people familiar with the matter.