If you care about freedom to choose an unlimited provider it is your duty to dump any provider which will not deliver that. It is foolish to use a smart phone on metered service. Applications run in the background – you won't even know your phone has a virus costing you $$$.

$80 for metered data, plus voice, plus texting, plus every other addon they can think of – NO THANKS. I pay $145, 2 phones, 1500 shared minutes, unlimited data, unlimited everything else, with handset insurance, and only $20 to add a phone.

If you want to reject metered rates, use US Sprint. The other companies will cave_ just like the metered rate monopolies for land line service collapsed spectacularly 20 years ago when NetZero and Earthlink crushed the AOL and Compuserve juggernaught. They said then that AOL is the internet_ even made a movie called You Got Mail based on the new kind of love story built in the proprietary AOL world.

People demanded unlimited and AOL and Compuserve were left without customers, bought by Time Warner, and reduced to mere content providers with nothing unique. AOL was the original social media and search – but consumers decided AOL should fail and it did.

Compuserve was every business man's required tool. Now it is so insignificant it will not even be remembered by history.

Demand unlimited service and you will have it, but if you wait until Sprint decides it will not build business to offer unlimited data, it could be decades before we get another chance.

By the way – speed throttling is the same – and AT&T and Comcast are rushing that way with Congreess helping them protect their broadband monopolies. That must be rejected as well, but it is not so easy since most people do not have any other Broadband option.

Watch out for the same on your cell phone – TMoble does that and lies to say you have unlimited service. Don't accept their cynical abuse of your good will.

Dump them all!

Use US Sprint!

BTW: this is not and ad and I do not work in telecom – I am just a customer who refuses to use providers who meter data use, and hope you will join in.

So now we are going to be stuck with a fast data standard that's too expensive to use.

I hear Sprint is still unlimited data? I'd rather have unlimited 3G data than limited 4G, if it comes to that.