Is 3G from Verizon or Sprint worth it?

[tonyp56]

Yeah, I understand how that would not be good. Though I have to say, I have never had any billing problems from AT&T and I've had home phone through SBC/AT&T for years along with my cell phone being from SBC/Cingular/AT&T since 2001. I'm no fan of AT&T and do think they are using an excuse of too expensive to refuse to expand their products and offerings to their own territory. I mean, no DSL, no 3G, no wireless hot-spots, Nada, except dial up (no local access numbers!!!) and re-branded Wild Blue Internet from AT&T for me. And their commercials taught "AT&T has the fastest/best/etc. 3G/DSL" yeah perhaps, but not for me and therefore not really.

For me, my options are one company offering dial-up ($16) with a local access number and crappy wifi (256K up and down) service for $39.99 (no other local access numbers for dial-up service, so my only option is one company) Hughes Net, which honestly, has not been bad except for FAP, I mean if they gave 400 MB in 24 hour period, the same as dial-up (you can download more in a 24 hour period with dial up than you can with satellite, that is just stupid IMHO.) then they would be B+ instead of current C-. Now it is a plus that you kind of have unlimited downloads between 1-5AM (for me anyways), but really I'm in bed usually and never get to experience that (I'm awake now because it is my weekend). Or other option is Wild Blue directly or via AT&T or Dish Network. It does sound like a better deal as far as FAP goes, but really, I would not gain anything by switching IMO.

With supposed coverage from Verizon and Sprint in my area with 3G, it gives me another option, but sadly, I can not see my self switching at this moment because of the CAP. They would have to allow the same amount as Hughes Net before I would consider it any more, but honestly, wouldn't switch unless they allowed at least the same amount one could download with dial-up in a 24 hour period without charging extra. 400MB or so or about 12GB per month instead of 5GB's.

[digiblur]

The Wildblue FAP is horrible. You'll be throttled back to basically nothing until your 30 day rolling usage is below 70 of your tier. On the 512 tier, it's only 7.5 gig.