The word “unlimited” is pretty good for marketing purposes— the world definitely has a certain buzz to it, and sounds almost as if you're getting some kind of good deal (as if those even existed anymore).
US Cellular is now offering a new “No Contract Unlimited Data, Talk & Text” for $50. It's the same price as the company's 1GB plan, but there's a catch. With the new “unlimited” plan, after you go over a cap of 500MB of data, your data speeds will be shot down all the way to 1X (2G) speeds. Ouch.
Hit the break for the fine print.
No Contract Unlimited Data Speed: Full applicable data speeds apply for the first 500MB of usage. Data speeds shall be slowed to 1x thereafter for the remainder of the billing cycle.
No Contract Data is only available on certain phones. Application charges may apply when accessing applications. Customer must have a positive account balance in order to purchase applications. Not all applications are available for purchase by No Contract Data customers. Not all phones support all applications.U.S. Cellular reserves the right to terminate your service if more than 200 MB of your data usage in any month is used in U.S. Cellular's non-licensed markets. See store for details or visit uscellular.com.
There are some good deals out there from other carriers, but this certainly isn't one of them— at least not for data-fiends.
Source: US Cellular
Yea, I remember that crap with T-Mobile. It sucked. I would always get notified that my data speeds were being slowed down. -___- Now I’m with Verizon and it sucks because I can’t get Unlimited anymore because I bought a new phone last year. haha. Oh well. 10 GB a month has been good to me. :P