I'm not Kelly, but I googled and found his article on AppleVIS
http://www.applevis.com/guides/carrier/iphone-cheap-how-enjoy-wireless-service-less-30-month-get-new-iphone-less-half-retail
HTH,
Jeff
At 06:04 AM 12/8/2013, you wrote:
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]
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