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2013-03-26
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@ Rochester, NY
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I currently use the T-mobile plan you have to purchase online from them. For $30/month I get 100 min talk, unlimited text, and 5GB data. For $15 extra you can also tether - free if you use a hack found on XDA ; )
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2013-03-26
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@ North Potomac MD
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I have the $30/month plan as well. The 5Gb is the limit for "4G" access. Beyond that they drop you to 2.5G (aka EDGE).
And yes, their "4G" is HSPA+, which is really 3.5G, but is something the N900 handles nicely. Most times I can't tell if I'm on wifi or 4G without looking at the indicator.
They've offered the $50/month plan for a while with one difference: The old plan cut your data at 500Mb, vs dropping it to a slower tier.
I really wish they would offer these plans as monthly plans though, as right now they only offer the low cost plans a pre-pay. T-Mobile US tends to treat pre-pay plans as second class, and offer next to no service when it comes to plan use, call history, etc. Happily the N900 records all that in the local database.
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2013-03-26
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@ North Potomac MD
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2013-03-26
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@ With my N9
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Hi. What kind of speeds do you get in Rochester NY? (BTW,I'm originally from Canandaigua). I'm now in DC area and get up to about 20Mbps on my Note 2 with "4G". T-Mobile is supposed to turn on it's LTE here- maybe as soon as today but I haven't seen it yet.
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2013-03-26
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Hi. What kind of speeds do you get in Rochester NY? (BTW,I'm originally from Canandaigua). I'm now in DC area and get up to about 20Mbps on my Note 2 with "4G". T-Mobile is supposed to turn on it's LTE here- maybe as soon as today but I haven't seen it yet.
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2013-03-26
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@ lebanon
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2013-03-27
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2013-03-28
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But there was no risk to giving it a try so I figured why not. Previously I was using wifi-only with an unlimited 4G hotspot. But I didn't have nation-wide coverage.
T-Mobiles announcement is in 2 hours.
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actually, I had a T-Mobile sonic 4G (non-LTE) hotspot and the speeds on that exceeded anything i've seen on the n900 itself.... so i'm not sure the n900 can get the max speeds t-mobile is capable of even on 3.5+.... but i'm no expert
Last edited by Flynx; 2013-03-26 at 15:16.