ClearWire 4G may have started throttling down to modem speed after the cap is reached per the discussions here:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/clearwire

T-mobile need to focus on their signal for their cellular data , i live in orlando, there are so many dead zone in that area.

aww shut the hell up with that.tmo know what they are doing!

Drew, your simple economics and predictions unfortunately are wrong. With time the price per bit sent/received is decreasing dramatically and competition keeps pushing prices down. That means we will see progressively larger caps with faster speeds.

5GB per month means 166MB per day while just one DivX 700MB movie or one downloaded from Netflix will cost you 4-5 days of your capped traffic.

Just one update of Grand Theft Auto 4 or other games may weight 2 GB

In a family of 3-4 you may break this damn 5GB cap limit by factor 20-50 easily just watching movies ! That’s 100GB, but remember, Comcast has 250GB cap and still some people break it too.
100GB will cost you $20,000.
250GB – $50,000 fine

That’s how absurd situation with 5GB cap actually is

I agree with you. I hate the idea of losing my “unlimited” plan as the speeds increase. I did predict, however, that this was going to happen. As T-Mobile pushes out their faster and faster speeds, it is going to cost us. That’s just simple economics. I do however, have no fear in entrusting T-Mobile to give me the best deal available as they have yet to fail me since I started service in 2002.

I believe, however that these caps and prices might only apply to the USB modems and the notebook T-Mobile is supposed to be releasing sometime this year. I think (hope) we can keep our standard Android data packages and still take advantage of the stronger speeds offered even if the speed is capped at 7.2 Mbps on our phones. I don’t forsee it as that likely that T-Mobile will launch an HSPA+ handset by the end of the year. I’m thinking it may be more like the beginning of 2011, but let’s hope I’m wrong and we see some even better progress from T-Mobile this year.

Site will get 100 times the traffic! Main points are

5GB is at least 3-5 times less (!!!) of just one person sitting near the screen whole day usage.

5GB is 2% (!!!) of typical Comcast cable limit which in fact is not exact, flexible, but it is at least not less than that

Clear does not charge you on its new similarly fast high-speed 4G network!

You can easily get additional 5GB and will even not notice that. You will notice when you will pay $1000 more !

Stop the 5GB cap ripoff!

What good is 21MB down with a 5 GB CAP?

*Don’t forget

Do forget that 7.2 mbit/sec is theorical. Also 7.2 mbit/sec = 900 KBytes/sec, so you download speed seems pretty good to me

Sprint’s 4G is nothing more then a renamed and resold Clear WiMax plan. Clear doesn’t have caps on it, so I doubt Sprint will. If they capped it, customers would simply move to Clear…

IMO, it’s better to go with Clear anyway: no contract, cheaper hardware, locked in subscription prices.