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Jul 22, 2017 | 2:19 pm

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Originally Posted by JEFFJAGUAR

While it's good to have unlimited data, it's next to useless at 2g speeds. Of course, what they want is to charge you through the nose to upgrade. It would be little skin off their teeth not to deliberately slow down the speed; I doubt they save much money by doing that but then again their hope is for people to upgrade. They could really increase their subscriber base if they were willing to give you the 4g data as part of the package.

I'm pretty sure they paid their roaming partners by consumption, so people with faster data would consume more data in general. That is a big cost to them.

Also, the 128 worked fine for basic uses (Facebook, photo uploads, GMaps) and the 256 is even better.

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