Re:T-Mobile will start charging a $35 fee on all new activat...
by _fat_santa on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @01:08PM
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No there's a huge difference. I was talking about Verizon but AT&T is the same. Cricket has two unlimited plans, an unlimited and unlimited + hotspot. With AT&T you have 3 unlimited plans that give you unlimited "data" and then different amounts of "premium data" and differing amounts of hotspot data.
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by pxx on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @01:15PM
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so much for "unlimited data period".
And it's not like this is less confusing: Cricket's unlimited with hotspot plan has completely orthogonal features (cloud storage, HBO max, more high speed data) to what you get if you buy the unlimited plan, then add hotspot (more devices allowed, fallback to slow data when out of data allotment). There's at least three plans to choose from here.
The only simplifying factor is that Cricket doesn't even offer you the option to have 1080p streaming with any of these plans! Your premium data allowance is zero GB. How is that any better??
Re:T-Mobile will start charging a $35 fee on all new activat...
by latchkey on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @01:27PM
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AT&T has a business only truly unlimited data plan for hotspots that I ended up getting by actually going into a store and signing up, they don't advertise it at all and at the time, it was the only truly unlimited data plan I could find. It was a lifesaver as someone who sits on Zoom calls for hours each day while in a campervan.
That said, I upgraded to the NETGEAR Nighthawk M6 Pro 5G hotspot and it is a piece of shit that overheats and gets poor performance all the time.