![]() ![]() ("Scripps").įollow John on Twitter ( more consumer news and money saving advice, go to www.dontwasteyourmoney. "Don't Waste Your Money" is a registered trademark of Scripps Media, Inc. Straight Talk is still a great bargain prepaid phone. But you may want to pay a bit more for a lot more data. For about $10 more per month you can get 10 gigs of data before you are throttled.Īlso, if you are anywhere with WiFi, try to use WiFi to keep your data use down, so you don't waste your money. "It's a joke to use that phone," he said. Unlimited talk, text and data plans are available for as. TracFone Wireless, which runs Straight Talk, says: "At 2G speeds, the functionality of some data applications such as streaming video or audio may be affected."īut Proctor says on his phone it's more than that. Pre-paid US wireless service provider Straight Talk offers cheap phone plans by piggybacking on AT&T and T-Mobile’s wireless networks. We contacted Straight Talk to ask if anything can be done for Proctor. ![]() "Everything you try to do will be at a slow enough speed that the iPhone will just time out," he said. We were able to review the information and determinate that we could add the unused service to the other phone as one time courtesy. Web pages won't open at all on his phone. Proctor says after he used two gigs of data and was throttled, he was still using data technically, but it was so slow that his phone could not do anything. After evaluating your data usage and cleaning up your habits, it’s time to pick the data plan that works for you. To narrow down the best Straight Talk data plans, we compare features to price. "You will get throttled back to 2G after you use two gigs according to that card, which I was fine with," he said. Proctor, on a tight budget, purchased a prepaid Straight Talk phone for $35 a month, with "unlimited data," according to the card on the display at his local Walmart store.īut the small print on the card says that after two gigs of 4G LTE service your phone is switched over, or "throttled" to a slower network, which Proctor thought would be acceptable. "They are not giving you data that the phone can use, and it's their phone that I bought," Tony Proctor said. That's what Straight Talk promises, and their prepaid plans are a lot cheaper than any plan with Verizon or AT&T.īut as one man just found out, it comes with a catch that made the great deal no deal at all. How would you like an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy with unlimited data for just $35 a month? ![]()
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