Simple Mobile Unleashes $40 Unlimited Everything Plan

Simple Mobile is one of only two Mobile Virtual Network Operators on the T-Mobile USA network. But, they have gained praise by many for supporting and embracing unlocked devices and for offering rates competitive with first and second-party prepaid offerings.

It is not but clear how Simple Mobile is offering “3G Only” service. Like T-Mobile, Simple Mobile uses HSPA+, an upgrade to HSPA, and declares it to be a 4G innovation. It is possible that Simple Mobile is barring access to HSPA+ on SIM cards provisioned with the new plan, nevertheless it is more likely that the carrier is throttling.

The past month has been fast-paced in offerings from MVNOs. AT&T MVNOs just as H2O Wireless have begun offering unlimited calling-and-data plans for the first time, but, speeds are significantly throttled. H2O for instance throttles clients below a half-megabit in HSPA coverage areas, and to below 1.5 mbps in HSPA+ coverage areas.

The move puts Verizon MVNOs just as Page Plus Cellular in an embattled position. Page Plus was the first MVNO to offer an unlimited calling plan that undercut the national carriers. Nevertheless, along these lines, the plan made compromises, at first offering only 30 MB of data per month. This was due to Verizon charging significantly high per-kilobyte usage rates, which they continue to do so.

Page Plus was expected to increase the allotment to 300 MB within the past month. But, sources informed PhoneNews.com that they have halted such plans afterwards hearing of these changes, and are instead pushing Verizon to offer lower wholesale per-kilobyte rates, as then as a plan to access Verizon’s 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution, latest standard in the mobile network technology) data network.

Verizon’s Unleashed plans are as well significantly undercut by this move; unlike Verizon Unleashed, Simple Mobile heavily touts compatibility with near all unlocked GSM smartphones, even unlocked iPhones, which are now officially sold and supported by Apple in the United States. With AT&T’s capped and throttled data, many chose to run iPhone devices on T-Mobile and Simple Mobile, in spite of the iPhone’s inability to use the 3G network frequencies that T-Mobile operates on.

Matter of fact is a good deal

i guess you have to figure out if this as a matter of fact is a good deal by taking the full price cost of the phone and seeing if that over 24 months gives you saving. Im as well reluctant to sign on with these small carriers that are unproven, could disappear tomorrow, and have very limited customer support services and no local stores .

If I had a phone Id take them up on the 40 plan just to have unlimited calling and texting – forget the web. However if I have to pay $300 for a phone for an untested carrier that might be gone tomorrow, Im less likely to do that. I have a 2.5 year old tmob phone that I prob could get unlocked yet it will probably die shortly and doesn’t have any web access

sj: In my experience, I was able to use a simple mobile SIM card in regular T-Mobile phones even if they are not unlocked… YMMV, nevertheless just my experience.