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a brody Author

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Is the Virgin Mobile truly unlimited?

Looks like Virgin Mobile just started a data only $40 a month plan:

http://www.virginmobileusa.com/mobile-broadband/broadband2go.html

Has anyone tried to push its limit to see if they get charged anything extra? Are there any caveats besides coverage of the 3G access?

An Apple user since 1981, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Aug 29, 2010 3:07 PM

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hammid

Level 1

20 points

Oct 13, 2010 6:29 AM in response to a brody

In London, I went out to purchase a pre-paid SIM card and asked for "unlimited internet traffic". Apparently, the UK has some kind of restriction called "fair use", which limits monthly traffic to 500MB per month, even though the companies advertise "unlimited internet traffic". Makes you say, "Hm?"

In Russia, MTS allows unlimited 3G traffic, but limits the speed. Max speed is 512Kb/sec for the first 400MB downloaded in a day, then it limits download speeds to 32Kb/sec until the reset time of 3:00am. For comparison, a 15 minute FaceTime conversation from Russia to the US uses ~40-70MB of data.

Bottom line, read the fine print or ask people who know. It took me over two monthly billing cycles to realize the implications of what was being told to me in Russian. Even Russians had no idea what the MTS website was trying to say, since no Russians where I live would want such a service from a mobile phone carrier. I'm just the crazy expat who always wants too much all the time. 😟

a brody Author

Level 10

83,047 points

Oct 16, 2010 12:51 PM in response to hammid

Until Virgin Mobile offered this "unlimited plan" we had a hiatus of about 4 months with no unlimited plans in the U.S.

Is the Virgin Mobile truly unlimited?