Counterargument: there are fundamental reasons for data caps. To provide service at a high speed to lots of people at a reasonable price, edge-case data users must be throttled. Increasing capacity reduces the number of users who must be throttled.
So it doesn't depend on time of day, but how many other customers are sharing your tower.
https://www.t-mobile.com/customer/mydatausage.html
> Data prioritization will only be noticeable when you access a congested tower and have used over 50GB of data in a particular billing cycle. You will continue to get unlimited high speed data on your smartphone when you aren’t accessing a congested tower. In that way it’s different from data throttling, which slows you down for the remainder of your bill cycle regardless of network conditions, all the time.
Tmobile does have some prepaid plans and older grandfathered plans, but the ONE plan is pretty good, especially at the multi-line rates.
So yes, I’d expect cell service to get either cheaper or better over time instead of more expensive and worse.
It looks like MintSIM is the cheap option now, they do 5GB for $30 or 10GB for $38.
T-mobile doesn’t even charge for roaming on a whole bunch of countries. In my Australia vacation I didn’t even need to buy a new SIM card. Whatsapp and google maps all the way.
Their speeds also beat Sprint and AT&T. It’s the only carrier I have faith that screws it’s consumers the least.
AT&T has my blood on its hands by charging me $500 for roaming in Canada when I didn’t even cross the border.
T-mobile is a night and day difference.