Sprint’s new “All-In” plan ironically includes a 600 kbps video streaming cap

Sprint’s “All-In” plan they announced earlier today sounds awesome. It’s simple to understand, costs only $80 per month (including the phone and access fees), and offers customers unlimited talking, texting, and data. Sounds almost too good to be true for a postpaid carrier plan, right? Well, it is. Kinda.

Some fine details in the terms and conditions of Sprint’s new plan suggests that the carrier will place a 600 kbps cap on all streaming video for users on this new plan. Yeah, 600 kbps. That’s just barely over the recommended internet speed that Google suggests for YouTube, and you can bet that’s not HD video.

Sprint claims that this cap is put on video streaming to maintain the quality of their network, but there’s no conditional throttling for when you’re in a busy area or you’ve used too much data or anything. You just can’t stream video at high speeds on their network using this plan.

I’m not sure what Sprint’s end game is with this move, since any users that have this plan that try to stream any kind of video are going to have an awful time. There’s no way that will result in anything but horrible publicity for the company that’s spent the better part of the past few years trying to convince the general public that their network is steadily improving.

source: Android Police

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