Is there any cellphone provider

[I_UndergroundPanther]

That has truly unlimited data plan with no throttling bullshit for a low price on Earth? Or do all of them lie about unlimited data and skirt around that promise by slowing down your data extremely because they are greedy sons o bitches.

Internet,cable and cell service should be nationalised as well as all tv. Fuck the media companies and thier greed. If they lie and cheat we could demand better. I say, remove thier corporate charters and besides all that stuff about laying lines ect. That work was heavily subsidized by taxpayers, it's ours to begin with.

[DeminPennswoods]

1. I know people who are pretty happy with Consumer Cellular

fwiw

[demosincebirth]

4. I am.

[Jamastiene]

2. I don't know.

I'm still using a flip phone that is Pay As You Go. If I could afford a smart phone, and could go online with it, I could get a data plan for pretty cheap. I'm not sure if they throttle that though. It might be worth checking those types of plans out if you have a better cell phone though.

[hunter]

8. I have a Pay-As-You-Go flip phone.

It can work as a modem when it's plugged into the USB port of my Chromebook but data is expensive, about ten dollars a gigabyte most of the time. Sometimes data costs less with coupons, etc., when I'm refilling my voice minutes.

I don't use my phone much for data.

We have unlimited DSL in our home. It's fast enough for $8.99 a month Netflix without any trouble.

We don't have cable, satellite, or broadcast television.

[matt819]

3. Verizon Wireless

I think it's a crime that cell prices and broadband prices are so high in the US.

That said - I have had Verizon Wireless for a very long time, and the unlimited plan for most of that time. I've never noticed any throttling on speeds. There have been times when speeds seem oddly slow, but they are few and far between and I think attributable to other issues, e.g., network usage, technical problems, etc.

I agree with you on the broadband internet.

I live in a rural area. The only more or less standard service available is 768kb DSL, and that is unreliable. If I lived in town, I could get 100MB and up for $79. I ended up with a direct line to my house - 3MB - for $140/month. That's criminal. I could get faster speeds, but the costs go over $200/month.

The cable company serving my town is under no obligation to provide universal service. My house is about a mile from where the cable ends, and the cable company won't shell out the money to potentially serve the remaining 15 houses to the border of the next town, which has a different cable provider.

So I agree on the nationalization broadband side of things, or at the very least an obligation to provide universal hi-speed broadband service. Just because I live in a rural area doesn't give companies the right to treat us like crap.

[customerserviceguy]

5. I'm looking for a new cell provider myself

I don't need much, I can get data from my home WiFi network (who's going out these days?) and I don't use a lot of minutes. I absolutely refuse to text, so I don't need that, either. I'm sick of paying $65 a month to Sprint, and I will absolutely leave by the time that T-Mobile fully takes over, as I despise them with a passion.

Also, I'm having trouble finding a smaller smartphone with a 5 inch screen like I have now. I don't really want some big-ass phone, because I don't watch video on one. I do put on the PBS Newshour to fall asleep to at nights, but the display brightness is turned all the way down. And, I don't want a smartphone made in China (Taiwan, OK). Any suggestions for either?

[Tink41]

6. Republic Wireless

Works off of your wifi, is able to hop on "free" wifi in public places, and allows you to purchase in 5.00 increments of 1GB if you need more. When I started with them I did not have Data. I paid 12.00 a month for unlimited Text, Talk. Battery died in first phone, so when I got a new one I had to get a data plan. I believe I pay 20.00 a month with 1GB and could purchase more. I switched from Tmobile my original provider since 1998? 10 yrs ago and haven't looked back. ETA: They were listed on Consumer Reports list of best providers.

[MoonlitKnight]

7. Visible

Runs off Verizon network. $40 a month unlimited- no throttling.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

9. I'll have to look up visable

I don't have internet because Verizon has made sure they are the only ones who can provide broadband in our complex .
It's for sect.8 and 811 folks but supposedly it was built on land owned by Verizon.

If that isn't shady corporate encroachment on the government by the housing corporation and Verizon I dunno what is.

I fucking refuse to pay the 150 bucks or more it charges for thier shitty customer service and changing prices by surprise and binding contracts.this is why I have antenna tv. Other providers are much cheaper but because of this "arrangement" I am forbidden to go to a different service provider..

The monopolies of big broadband need to be shattered to a billion pieces or nationalized and thier corporate charters revoked and whatever ill gotten gains they have confiscated to provide a national network to every book and cranny of this nation,for free.

[hunter]

10. My wife's parents use AT&T wireless. They don't have any other choice but satellite.

They have two phones and a little wifi hotspot that displays how much high speed data they have left.

The hotspot doesn't turn off when they reach the data limit, it simply gets too slow for television. I don't know how much they pay for that. I do know they consider it expensive.

I looked at T-mobile and they offer "unlimited video." Some of their plans include Netflix as well. The catch is they reduce television quality to 480p, which is about the same as a DVD. That would be okay by me. Our television is small enough, and my vision is bad enough, that I don't notice much difference between a DVD or a Blu-Ray disc. (I do notice the difference on my desktop computer.) They start at $40 a month for their 55+ "senior" plans with supposedly unlimited SD streaming. I'm assuming the phone can be used as a hot spot. Maybe that's what I'd get if we didn't have our DSL line. (We got that before our local phone company or cable company offered home internet service.)

Years ago I had a T-mobile phone but then my wife got sick, we nearly lost our house, and accumulated huge medical debts. (Yes we had health insurance...) I dropped T-mobile and switched to a pay-as-you-go phone and discovered it worked perfectly well for me for less than $10 a month. When my wife recovered I did not return to a contract cell phone plan.

If anyone wants to rant against T-mobile I won't be upset. They weren't helpful when my wife and I couldn't pay our bills. As I recall it cost a little under $300 to make them go away and soured me on cell phone contracts forever.

My mom's family were ranchers in a place that's about as far away as you can get from a Walmart in the 48 states. Yet somehow they had both electricity and phone service thanks to government subsidies. The rural place where my wife's parents live got phone and electric service in a similar way.

You would think everyone could have internet service today. It's just as essential now as electricity and phone service were eighty years ago.