You gotta love it when cell carriers flex their corporate muscles and impose restrictions on their service. You also gotta love it when unlimited doesn’t really mean unlimited. If you’re a Sprint mobile broadband user, you’re about to find out. They’re slipping notes into customers’ bills, letting them know that data will be capped at 5 GB per month, or 300 MB if roaming. Welcome to the world of restrictive mobile broadband, Sprint.
The company continues to maintain that “99.5 percent” of customers will not be affected by this restriction. I guess they would know best, as they’re the ones who see the actual usage. Me? If I’m paying them $60 or so per month for mobile broadband, I’m damn well going to use over five gigs a month.
You’ll at least be able to take advantage of a usage meter, to see if you’re in danger of going over. Presumably, they’re not going to care if you use 5.2 gigs one month. If this is run anything like Verizon, it’ll take a few consecutive months of overages for them to take any action against you.
Still, restrictions are no fun, even if only a minority is affected. (Then again, there’s some bias for you, since I’d admittedly be part of that minority.)
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