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any idea if the $30 plan is still 5 gb at full LTE speeds? I am looking at the activation page right now and it says 5gb at 4g speeds
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any idea if the $30 plan is still 5 gb at full LTE speeds? I am looking at the activation page right now and it says 5gb at 4g speeds
any idea if the $30 plan is still 5 gb at full LTE speeds? I am looking at the activation page right now and it says 5gb at 4g speeds
it might be lte for grandfathered customers, but it is non-lte 4 g for new ones. Walmart had to pull the old sim kits and replace them with new ones, that clearly state " at up to 4 g speed".
I heard rumors on another thread that the $30/mo 100min 5gb plan will stop supporting LTE in a few months. Is there any substance to this rumor? If so, I might get Ting on my new Nexus instead of Tmobile..
I found the thread you were talking about. Since the posts were a bit off topic for the thread they were in, I moved them out of there and into yours to keep this topic organized.
As for the rumors, they have been just that. I'm not even sure if it's an official rumor because I don't recall one major tech blog running this story. At the time of this post, the plan still has full LTE.
As for running with Ting, I highly recommend against it because it requires them to flash some software to make it work, and it will lock the phone to the network instead of keeping the Nexus in it's natural state. And according to one testimony, no one was willing to undo it.
Thanks.. according to here, it seems Sprint will lock a Nexus purchased from Best Buy to their network but I'm not sure if the same applies to those from the Google Play store (where I bought mine, still waiting for it.)
I heard rumors on another thread that the $30/mo 100min 5gb plan will stop supporting LTE in a few months. Is there any substance to this rumor? If so, I might get Ting on my new Nexus instead of Tmobile..
Agreed, I'd be pretty shocked if T-Mobile didn't grandfather in LTE for existing customers.If they do remove LTE from the $30 plan, I'm fairly sure they will only do that for new customers. T-Mobile has a history of grandfathering customers, including prepaid customers, on their current plans; so I'd expect those currently on the $30 plan to keep LTE.
I wish I could get 20 Mbps on my HSPA+ connection. I am lucky to get 6 Mbps.
It's becoming less common now since they started refarming their spectrum. HSPA use to be on band 4 and would feature dual-channels in order to allow those high speeds. They have since moved most of their HSPA to band 2 and only have 1 channel for that. Speeds on that band will likely max out somewhere between 8 and 10.
In a lot of places sooner or later the may have H+42 on PCS (Band 2) I know South Florida and a couple other places do already. Especially in markets supplied by Nokia Siemens Network since they have a technique where you use less spectrum for each HSPA channelIt's becoming less common now since they started refarming their spectrum. HSPA use to be on band 4 and would feature dual-channels in order to allow those high speeds. They have since moved most of their HSPA to band 2 and only have 1 channel for that. Speeds on that band will likely max out somewhere between 8 and 10.
In a lot of places sooner or later the may have H+42 on PCS (Band 2) I know South Florida and a couple other places do already. Especially in markets supplied by Nokia Siemens Network since they have a technique where you use less spectrum for each HSPA channel
Again, they may be planning on removing LTE from the $30 plan but they haven't done it yet. On the "I Ordered the Nexus 5" thread there is a person who got a new SIM and just started his $30 plan this last week (after July 1) and he is getting LTE on the plan.
We'll see what happens but, for now, the $30 plan still has LTE.