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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
Don't get too hung up on the "unlimited" data plan. I can almost guarantee you it isn't really unlimited.
Straight Talk (which I use with my iPhone 4S and am quite happy with) advertises themselves as offering an "unlimited" text/voice/data plan. In reality the data is capped at 2.5 GB per month. They do not advertise this or state this anywhere but a simple web search will uncover testimonials from lots of people that got "throttled" once they hit this usage level in a given month (which is possible). If you exceed it they'll throttle you to painfully slow data transfer speeds.
I strongly suspect most other carriers' "unlimited" data plans (including the legacy plans like yours) are the same way and have some exception clause built into them or there's simply a secret, undisclosed policy to throttle people back once they hit some established cap without telling them. Either that or they'll just shut you off and then accuse you of performing unauthorized tethering (happened to a co-worker). In that situation he had no rights, recourse or appeal. The provider held all the cards and he ended up having to eat it. I think they actually went after him for the balance of his contract too - I'll see if I can find out. That's life now - corporations come first, everyone else second.
Personally I'd junk the Verizon (CDMA) phones and get GSM-based (SIM) devices and use ST, Net10 or some other prepay carrier, then live happily ever after.
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Made the switch to Straight Talk myself a couple months ago. Porting over my phone numbers as contracts expire; so far 2 are gone, and 2 remain on Verizon. I'm saving $60/month so far, and will end up saving over $130/month once all phones are transferred over. Verizon calls me on an almost daily basis trying to get my business back (I was with them 10+ years). But the best they could do was about a $40 savings over my current plan with them, so I told them no thanks. I really think prepaid is the way to go.