Sprint’s major differentiating factor from the other iPhone carriers is that they still offer unlimited data plans — which both Verizon and AT&T killed after getting the megapopular smartphone. Now it looks like they might be cutting back on that, for tetherers at least.
If you tether with a Sprint smartphone, you now have a hard limit of 5GB:
Currently, if you use your phone’s Mobile Hotspot add-on, the Mobile Hotspot data usage is combined with your phone data usage. Effective on your next bill following notification, your monthly mobile hotspot on-network data usage will be limited to 5GB of 3G or combined 3G/4G usage dependent upon device capability. Additional data use above 5GB is $.05/MB. Your monthly off-network data limit will continue to be 300MB, which is a combination of phone and Mobile Hotspot data usage.
The situation’s even worse if you have a mobile Broadband plan, as you will now have to switch to a 3GB, 5GB or 10GB plan.
Plus, existing plans won’t get grandfathered in. Even you already have an unlimited plan, this will cut you off.
We hope this isn’t the first indication that Sprint might cut back on unlimited data for the smartphone as well.
[via Engadget]
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