There's the old adage - "if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is".
Well, I was recently shopping for a new cell phone provider and took a good look at
Virgin Mobile, which is owned by Sprint and thus has coverage just as good, if not better than AT&T here in the Bay Area. Best of all, they offer unlimited data and texting for $35 / month on a 300 minute talk plan or $45 / month for 1200 minutes.
They do not offer 4G and only have a limited phone selection, but still this is a pretty sweet deal. Unlimited data on a good 3G network for $35 / month? Whoot! However, today I stumbled across
this blog highlighting Virgin's announcement that starting this month, they will throttle down customers going over 2.5 GB per month.
I've never gone for 1 GB / month in data usage so I'm not too concerned about this policy affecting me. However, it may indicate that between Virgin Mobile and new iPhone users, Sprint's 3G network could be having the same problem AT&T's did starting in July of 2008 when the iPhone 3G was released.
