T-Mobile beefs up its unlimited data plans with 70 more countries covered

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The wireless carrier wars are continuing to heat up, this time internationally.

Today, T-Mobile announced it’s expanding it’s Unlimited plan benefits by adding 70 more countries where customers get unlimited data (albeit slow 2G data speeds). This brings the total to 210 countries or destinations for T-Mobile One and legacy plan customers with Simple Global. 

Before you go celebrating the new coverage areas, it’s important to note that in these countries, customers will not get access to free high-speed 4G LTE data, but rather unlimited data at 128kbps (aka 2G). So yes, this is a slow network, but it’s better than nothing. Customers also get unlimited texts in these locations for free. Making phone calls internationally on T-Mobile will cost 25 cents a minute. With this change, there are no additional costs to customers either. Read more…

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Verizon adds a third ‘unlimited’ plan in the name of choice

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For Verizon, “unlimited” is getting more complicated.

A new unlimited tier, Above Unlimited, is joining the current two tiers — Go Unlimited and Beyond Unlimited. Verizon says the whole point is to give consumers more choice, but the new tier also could make things more confusing.

The carrier first reintroduced an Unlimited plan, split between Go and Beyond tiers, last February. You could say it ignited competition, as T-Mobile matched and topped Verizon’s offering. And since then Verizon has introduced unlimited prepaid and business plans.

So how do Verizon’s unlimited plans differ from each other? They’re summarized in the table below. Read more…

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Google’s Project Fi now caps data bills at $60

 Google’s Project Fi cell service never played the “unlimited data” game that most carriers in the U.S. like to play (and which is never truly unlimited). Instead, Google simply offered data at $10/GB/month and would give you a refund for any data you paid for but didn’t use. Now, however, it’s taking its own stab at what is essentially an unlimited data plan. With… Read More

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