In a nutshelll, StraightTalk is a decent phone at a decent price IF you already know all there is to know about the phone you are buying (their customer service and manuals are truly abysmal at best), and you have underutilized towers in your area. Oh, sure, they use Sprint (in case of my Android phone) towers, but they don’t tell you that Sprint only sells the excess capacity on the towers to non- Sprint customers. .while my associate with sprint (10 feet away in cube farm) gets 4 bars. I’ve had TracFone/StraightTalk (same company) phones for 4 years now.. take it from me…buy the cheap phones and plan on throwing them away if you have a problem. I do enjoy the unlimited data plans, at least in areas where I get signals!
This is very wrong, if they say unlimited data then it should be unlimited data period. Not to mention, I pay full price for my phones, I should have all the functionality I pay for from the device. You people realize that it says native applications right in the tos right? that means watch the apps you get from the app store to. because they are not allowed to collect data either. If a phone has web capabilities then that is what the phone was intended for. I like to download files from the net and many times I use my phone to do it. That is why I pay for “unlimited” data.
Oh and my cell company allows tethering and is $ a month btw so it is way better than wal-marts. My company is airfire mobile.
Do any of you know how to read and use punctuation. Look again at the ads. They say Unlimited phone, text and data. Not unlimited phone, unlimted text, unlimited data!
If you look at Straighttalk’s FAQ’s page, under “Services”, you see it states “The $45 Unlimited Service Plan provides you with unlimited Minutes, unlimited messages, and unlimited Mobile Web access during a 30-day period.” What then?
AC . . . that is the entire point. What is being stated is that the advertised plan is ambiguous at best. Your complete one sided interpretation of punctuation clarifies the issue. That statement can mean one or the other . . THAT IS THE PROBLEM! It is not “CLEARLY” stated so as to avoid any misinterpretation of the facts.
Bravo, Ryan…Well said. I think any one of us, who were honest with ourselves ( and not just “Full of Ourselves ), would naturally understand that if an ad promised “Unlimited Data” as the Lead In to the product being sold that this would naturally mean, in the common vernacular, “ALL DATA” including everything available and normally construed to be Data. This would be naturally assumed ( as Walmart certainly would be aware ) by the majority of everyday cell phone users. “Unlimited” would be just that….”Everything that is available”, without limit! Most, everyday cell phone users, in my humble opinion would assume that What the were shelling out their hard earned pesos for was with the expectation of getting “Unlimited” in any way “DATA! > Come on u guys, this is totally absurd imo, OF COURSE WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WALLMART IS TRYING TO GET AWAY WITH. U all know this as well as i do!
I really don’t understand what the whole commotion is about all of this
WOW…This has got to be a record. This Thread started way back in . I think any one of us, who were honest with ourselves ( and not just “Full of Ourselves ), would naturally understand that if an ad promised “Unlimited Data” as the Lead In to the product being sold that this would naturally mean, in the common vernacular, “ALL DATA” including everything available and normally construed to be Data. This would be naturally assumed ( as Walmart certainly would be aware ) by the majority of everyday cell phone users. “Unlimited” would be just that….”Everything that is available”, without limit! Most, everyday cell phone users, in my humble opinion would assume that What the were shelling out their hard earned pesos for was with the expectation of getting “Unlimited” in any way “DATA! > Come on u guys, this is totally absurd imo, OF COURSE WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WALLMART IS TRYING TO GET AWAY WITH. U all know this as well as i do!
They need to get the large “unlimited data” off their ads and put the truth
At first they told me it was because I received ‘business’ emails to a phone that was only to be used for ‘personal’ use…until finally they said I simply used too much data…shit I even offered to pay 90-100 for my plan if they’d just let me have what I wanted…finally I told Hubib to go back to his damn country and that was that. I went back to Sprint…You clearly get what you pay for and if I am going for unlimited it better BE UNLIMITED dammit.
I propose, rather than parsing the word data, why don’t they simply change their claim to be realistic and say unlimited text and usage of the phone’s built-in browser on select networks. Deceit is deceit with or without an asterisk.
If you go to the Straight Talk website, they clearly list that the $45 thirty day plan is intended for unlimited texts, calls, and data. I think that this is a great thing that Straight Talk and Wal-mart is doing, because they are allowing people to have a cheap plan and great coverage (Straight Talk uses Verizon Wireless coverage). Trust me, I’ve been through plenty of cell phone companies, from ATT to Sprint, and none of them have given me the same amount of satisfaction than Straight Talk.
As 4G rolls out this year we will see the cap increase to a point where 4G cell phones will be able to handle more data and possibly stream music for a months time without reaching its cap. Again it is a play on words but there is a reason for the caps. Besides 5GB data is well more than enough for a cell phone (Aka no streaming music or videos constantly). Tethering a device of course will only bring you to that 5GB limit within a couple days as online installment loans South Carolina the plan was not intended for such. Don’t get me wrong the hardware can be tethered but that is a feature that the manufacture makes but does not mean at any point that the service provider must use that feature of the phone or support it.
The data is unlimited. The phone you purchase does not have streaming capability. The card you purchase is unlimited Data. It doesn’t take a lawyer to figure that out. Did anyone really think you were going to be able to pick up Netflix or youtube? It’s a phone not a laptop.
