I'm still on one of their prepaid "Connect" plans, and get unlimited talk & text, plus 12 gigs of data, for $35. Since I'm nearly always somewhere with wifi, I can't recall ever having run into an issue due to lack of data. I wonder if some folks could switch over to a plan like this and save money, if they planned media downloads to happen when they're on wifi?
Rather the opposite, I pay $20.99/month for unlimited for _just_ my iPad now on a different carrier because I don’t want to ever think about WiFi again when I’m not at home. Cellular is finally “good enough” that it’s better (faster/more reliable) than most hotel/public WiFi I’ve used in the past year.
I doubt most people know that prepaid exists and is extremely cheap, that they can easily port over their number to any carrier (required by law for a long time), or that they are using a small fraction of their "unlimited" data.
My $25 prepaid plan comes with 16 GB of data, I don't even bother to use wifi on short trips. I used to manage my parents' plan, sometimes they barely use one GB a month.
