I have been off contract for a over a year now with my unlimited plan and cling to for multiple reasons:
1. Look at data usage rates over the past 5 years and tell me that you feel comfortable with your 2 GB a month for your 2 year plan.
2. I use on average 8 GB a month if I'm not traveling a lot for work. The most I've used is 10.8 GB. As an example, I went on a 10 day trip with no wifi, used Waze, Email, watched 1 45 min episode, uploaded 483 songs (set up a friends Google Music), had photo backup on for dropbox (100 photos), did a little browsing, and used 3.38 GB. Having unlimited gave me the comfort of not worrying about going over my data. Throttling is not a big of an issue as people think.
3. Why get rid of an unlimited plan when a limited plan costs more? I pay $30 a month for that unlimited data (yes I pay for minutes, 2000 min block $55), I say again, unlimited, so I don't have to worry about being on wifi to update apps, stream XM or netflix, etc... as living in the country wifi is rarely available. The 2GB plan costs $60 a month with $15 per GB over the original 2GB. Why would I upgrade? I can buy a slightly used device off of Swappa for 2/3 the new cost.
4. Nothing worth while has been introduced in the cell phone world since NFC back when the Galaxy Nexus launched that would make me want to upgrade my phone for retail. All of the "new" things have been software based. Everything is still 4G, until just recently when they started releasing XLTE, which is only available in a very select few cities. A cell phone doesn't need anything over 720p display so anything above that is just "because we can." 1080p is nice, but is only really noticeable if you read a lot of text, but a 720p can be fixed with tweaking (adjusting dpi). I would rather have a 720p display that gets better battery life than a better screen with worse battery life. The new Turbo charging is something that is really cool and new, but if you have a Maxx style phone or a removable battery it is only semi helpful.
1. Look at data usage rates over the past 5 years and tell me that you feel comfortable with your 2 GB a month for your 2 year plan.
2. I use on average 8 GB a month if I'm not traveling a lot for work. The most I've used is 10.8 GB. As an example, I went on a 10 day trip with no wifi, used Waze, Email, watched 1 45 min episode, uploaded 483 songs (set up a friends Google Music), had photo backup on for dropbox (100 photos), did a little browsing, and used 3.38 GB. Having unlimited gave me the comfort of not worrying about going over my data. Throttling is not a big of an issue as people think.
3. Why get rid of an unlimited plan when a limited plan costs more? I pay $30 a month for that unlimited data (yes I pay for minutes, 2000 min block $55), I say again, unlimited, so I don't have to worry about being on wifi to update apps, stream XM or netflix, etc... as living in the country wifi is rarely available. The 2GB plan costs $60 a month with $15 per GB over the original 2GB. Why would I upgrade? I can buy a slightly used device off of Swappa for 2/3 the new cost.
4. Nothing worth while has been introduced in the cell phone world since NFC back when the Galaxy Nexus launched that would make me want to upgrade my phone for retail. All of the "new" things have been software based. Everything is still 4G, until just recently when they started releasing XLTE, which is only available in a very select few cities. A cell phone doesn't need anything over 720p display so anything above that is just "because we can." 1080p is nice, but is only really noticeable if you read a lot of text, but a 720p can be fixed with tweaking (adjusting dpi). I would rather have a 720p display that gets better battery life than a better screen with worse battery life. The new Turbo charging is something that is really cool and new, but if you have a Maxx style phone or a removable battery it is only semi helpful.