I live in Chicago and use the T-Mobile prepaid $30 a month plan that I described in my article on iPhone on the cheap. I have an iPhone 5 from December 2012, before Apple supported the AWS band. I regularly obtain download speeds of 10 Mbps and upload speeds 700 to 900 Kbps. Sometimes my upload speeds are one Mbps. When I visit family in northern Indiana, the iPhone falls back to 2G EDGE speeds that are only two to three times as fast as a dial-up internet connection. By next spring or summer, T-Mobile said that all cell towers will be refarmed to HSPA+ and/or LTE, making this a non-issue.
Call quality is excellent and very clear. My calls are much clearer than on a friend’s iPhone 5 with AT&T. With the $30 a month plan T-Mobile says that five Gb of data is at LTE speeds and speeds are reduced to EDGE when five GB of data is used in a month. I listen to iTunes radio, TuneIn and download two or three talking books from NLS each month and I don’t even chew up one megabyte of data. Kelly On 12/8/13, Kathy Brandt <[email protected]> wrote: > What hotspot are you using? A while back with my iPod touch fourth GEN I > used a virgin mobile one, which was pretty good for radio. It was great to > have something like that while on the road :-) > > > > On Oct 27, 2013, at 11:52 PM, "Kevin Minor" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi again. > > I haven’t used the amount where they may throttle back your data speed. I > also have a WI-FI hot spot, and I specificly asked them if I could get an > unlimited data plan for it. They said I couldn’t. The maximum amount of > data that I can get for my hot spot is 12 gigs per month, which is quite a > bit. They advertise their cell phone data plan as unlimited, so that’s what > I’m assuming, but you know what happens when you assume. I don’t download a > lot with my iPhone. I listen to iTunes Radio and sports, and that’s it. If > I encounter any problem with running into a throttle back on my cell phone, > I’ll call them up to get a clarification of their so called unlimited plan. > > Here’s an update. I just called up T Mobile, and I specificly asked if my > cell plan was truly unlimited data, and they said it was. If, however, I > used my iPhone as a tethered hot spot, I’m limited to 500 MB of data using > it that way. Since I have a mobile hot spot I’m not going to use my iPhone > as a hot spot. > > Kevin Minor, Lexington, KY > [email protected] > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
