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Old plan on 5g

ramzes — Thu, 25 May 2023 20:23:59 GMT

Hi, Im thinking of changing to the promotion plan of $39 per month 20gb at 4g speed. My current plan is the old $45 per month but it says 5g on the top. Will it change the speed?

Re: Old plan on 5g

kb_mv — Thu, 25 May 2023 20:30:07 GMT

@ramzes wrote:
Hi, Im thinking of changing to the promotion plan of $39 per month 20gb at 4g speed. My current plan is the old $45 per month but it says 5g on the top. Will it change the speed?

@ramzes The $39 plan is at 4G/LTE, same as the $45 plan regardless of what your phone hooks up to. Switch your phone to only select 4G/LTE and you will notice a marked improvement in your speeds. Hooking up to 5G actually hinders it (unless of course you subscribe to a 5G plan).

Re: Old plan on 5g

bjs23 — Thu, 25 May 2023 20:30:47 GMT

Just switched to the $39 plan. Says 5G at the top but of course limited to 100mbps speeds

Re: Old plan on 5g

hTideGnow — Thu, 25 May 2023 20:31:29 GMT

HI @ramzes

both $45 and $39 are LTE/4G plans. Same speed

Re: Old plan on 5g

kb_mv — Thu, 25 May 2023 20:31:49 GMT

@bjs23 wrote:
Just switched to the $39 plan. Says 5G at the top but of course limited to 100mbps speeds

@bjs23 See my reply above vis a vis forcing your phone onto LTE only....

Re: Old plan on 5g

sheytoon — Thu, 25 May 2023 20:45:18 GMT

All the plans should have access to 5G now, but "4G speed" plans will be throttled to 100 Mbps.

Re: Old plan on 5g

gpixel — Fri, 26 May 2023 01:30:48 GMT

it's the same concept as with the 3g plans. IT is now safe to leave 5g enabled. I have a suspicious feeling that only the 5g will be throttled. I will do some tests in the near future when the roll out is more official and see if it is true

*update

5g normally uses more CPU usage and heats up the device especially with a weak signal so I've switched back to lte. unless I'm experiencing weaker data bandwidth on LTE I'm not going to use 5g. better battery efficiency is the better option

Re: Old plan on 5g

sheytoon — Thu, 25 May 2023 22:35:01 GMT

I think both 4G and 5G will be throttled exactly the same.