MUST READ! New Straight Talk Data Useage Proceedures (Yes, you'll be pissed)

[Alder69]

As of May 4th, when you now incur a provision on your straight talk account, (data usage overage) you are no longer able to ask a customer service rep to remove the cap/throtteling/ban. You are also no longer able to pay and re-up your service, and reset the provision. You are now banned.

Here's what happened to my account:

I've used straight talk w/ google nexus since summer 2012-feb-2013 w/ a att sim. I upgraded to the nexus 4 feb 2013, and began useing a t-mobile sim for the nuexus 4 hardware and the hpsa+ 42 t-mobile networks). Regardless of configuration, i've always tethered all my tv torrents, movies, online gameing, everything, resulting in roughly 50gb a month in data. I have just payed for my monthly renewal back on April 30th, and today, may 5th, i have incurred a provision on my account. i have used 23gb according to the data useage monitor in system. this provision renders my account with no data. at all. no blue bars. So i call in, and all the techs are now trained to forward you to a prerecorded message telling you that you have a usage provision and that you will not be able to remove it, nor can you buy another month's service to renew it. this recoding does not preempt another rep, it simply hangs up.

Any sugestions as to other services to migrate to will be highly appreciated, does Ting support the nexus 4?

I'm a network tech myself, always on contract in hotels, and my nexus 4 as a portable modem is my near and dear lifeline. I have nothing else in my life, i'm a single man, w/ no family. i'm always on contract, and seek refuge in a few hours of gameing. (ie. this is practically my only bliss, gameing podcasts, getting jazzed up for new tittles, steam sales, buying/tradeing downloading new tittles), so i'm sincerely begging, lowering my dignity and pride, to reach out to the forum community and asking for anysugestions for other service providers that i can migrate to.

 

[mcshaggin]

I'm almost positive you broke the T.O.S by tethering. Another option would be Solavei, they have a cap of 5Gb which is twice what Straight talk offers but the cost is $49 and is on Tmo network. They have a referral program and someone in here is always soliciting. If you don't want the boot from them too for tethering, I'd suggest going to Tmo directly and get the plan that includes tethering. I'm sure straight talk wasn't happy with you streaming all that porn and essentially made your Nexus 4 a dumb phone.

 

[gone down south]

Just go to T-Mobile, $70 for unlimited everything without the weird restrictions mvnos have you put up with.

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[RumoredNow]

I think anyone would agree that 50GB a month is a lot of data.

No matter what carrier or plan you have, it's for your phone (maybe some sanctioned tethering on the side). It is NEVER meant to replace home internet and drive multiple devices on a daily basis...

Surely these hotels you stay at for work offer WiFi. Wouldn't your company pick up that tab?

mcshaggin is right, you violated the Terms of Service and have no recourse.

gone down south is partly right. With T-Mo's new Simple Choice plan, $70 dollars gets you everything for your phone with no soft cap on data - BUT only the first 500 MB of tethering is at high speed, then you get slowed down to EDGE for tethered data use...

So far as I know, Sprint is the ONLY carrier in America that offers true (all you can consume with no questions asked) Unlimited Data. That might be changing now too though.