5 Reasons You Don’t Need An Unlimited Mobile Plan
So you’re set up with a telco and they give you what sounds like a really great deal: unlimited data! You activate your plan, visions of Youtube binges and endless Facebook scrolling dancing eagerly in your head. And everyone lives happily ever after...or do we?
Awww yisss gonna stream ALL the K-drama
You might think a plan with no set quota saves you money and stress, but we’ve got 5 reasons why ‘unlimited’ can actually end up bringing you unlimited stress instead.
1. The limit(s) on unlimited
Ready to cruise on that Internet fast lane all month, every month? Slow down there, brader. Some plans only give you unlimited data on certain days, or at certain times. Most plans will also throttle your streaming quality after you hit a certain data cap each billing period, turning your data flow into a trickle and making laggy mush out of those delicious multi-season binge sessions. They might also cap your bandwidth from the get go - where’s the ‘unlimited’ in that, we ask?
Nowadays it’s more like invisible images, but...you get the idea
Thinking of using your phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot? Certain telcos won’t let you try. They also set quotas on the amount of data and the number of devices you can use. Tell your friends it’s not that you don’t want to share; it’s just your telco.
2. Don’t use, you lose
Now think about your daily routine. You wake up, at home, with your Wi-Fi. You head off to work, where you probably sponge off the office Wi-Fi. You go home (Wi-Fi again) or out for dinner, most probably at a shop where there’s Wi-Fi too. So if your daily life has you relying on Wi-Fi more than your own data connection, is it really worth paying for unlimited?
3. The price you pay
All kinds of people sign up for unlimited plans, from data dieters to big consumers. And everyone pays the same price each month. So if you’re not using your data to the maximum (and cursing the eventual bandwidth drop), you’re really paying extra for whatever you don’t use. It just isn’t worth having that extra GB you never, ever end up using.
‘fess up, you know it’s you
4. Calls, texts and what happens next
Unlimited voice minutes and SMS to go with your plan? Also great. But let’s be realistic here: how many of us still regularly make phone calls or send SMSes? Most Malaysians are happily glued to Whatsapp and other messaging services already. Short of business calls, saying hello to older family members or having heart-to-hearts with your sweethearts, it’s a bonus you don’t really need.
5. Phantom savings
With an unlimited plan, you might think you’re saving...except you’re not. You pay for extras you don’t need and data you don’t use - and when you do bump up your data usage, your telco punishes you by throttling your bandwidth. Really, what’s a telco user to do?
Sorry, the ghost savings cannot help you
Choose to break free
It’s always best to go through all the plans available so you can pick that suits you, not your telco. But what if you could actually create your own plan?
Yup. You totally can
With Yoodo, you get to pick exactly what you need every month and change it up when you want to. There’s no throttling and no interruptions, and if you run out of anything before the month is up, you can top up your plan with an affordable booster or social media add-on. Now you can set your own limits, and save on time, money and stress!
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Woahhh, no wonder lah your playing games at home LIM ZHI WEI 😄 what is your internet speed?
and that's why Yoodo the best for you HANAN SYAFEA BINTI MOHD ROSLAN 😁😁
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You're definitely the exception LIM ZHI WEI haha
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There are ridiculous amount of browser background activities that keep on consuming bandwidth nowadays, loading a simple website with high resolution ads and images, and videos too, at least 2 mb gone.
Most browser are set to play video automatically, so video get buffered, even if later you decide you don't want to watch, your quota already kena potong.
And please don't forget the bandwidth sucker, Windows 10 forced updates and upgrades.
Delivery optimization through local network peer to peer pc probably turn on by default.
The quota are consumed by os, services, websites, ads etc, maybe only 40% are consciously consumed by us.
Btw, is it possible to have cheaper 10GB booster that come with slower / capped speed, like 512kbps ~ 64 kilobyte?
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Good observation there CHANG CHEN YEE
Well, there's obviously a limit to how much prices can go, but we're constantly looking and visiting with a review in mind at those!
On the slower capped speed - We already have this, we don't shout about it like others but when your Data finishes, you will still get unlimited data at 64kbps speed with Yoodo :)
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Hi CHANG CHEN YEE, it doesn't make sense to offer paid Data at slower speeds. 64kbps is basic internet - free.
However we might explore other minimum options, but to a certain extent only cause we can't be focusing only on the lower tier offerings, it's not long-term business viable for us on a larger scale for consumers.
We do go through every single suggestion that's brought up in the Community with rest of the Team though, so as far as that's concern - I'll probably never give a hard No to any suggestion we always discuss about it :)
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I would love to suggest everyone try using the basic internet 64kbps to do something online like checking gmail or yahoo mail ? :)
Maybe a booster to upgrade basic internet speed? So far the customization is on size of data allowable, calling duration, sms count. Maybe a customization on speed?
Long term goal would be turn quota GB as money, when people could transfer GB, MB among themselves. Imagine buying a pizza, shirt, starbuck coffee, and pay using GB inside Yoodo. :)
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The idea of unlimited actually could encourage people to try something new with their data plan, torrent, p2p, local bitcoin wallet, local own cloud storage and etc.
Is like one is more brave and adventurous when they got lots of monies, they don't have to reserve their ideas and afraid of falling.
People are more conserve when they are not in unlimited plan, they probably keep on checking how many GB they left and hopeful the balance is enough until the day of plan renewal.
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Excellent question NINA BINTI SAIRUDIN! Thanks for asking
so that I can say, NOooooOooOoo .. we don't do throttling - not even as an April's Fool joke! That's also why we're saying most people don't need or know what is 'unlimited' means, it's fine print that many Telco get away with.
So while we may not yet be perfect in everything, everything we say we do, we will honor it. No BS for reals! =)
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NINA BINTI SAIRUDIN Data speed is somewhat a mystery - as in we're on Celcom's widest coverage, wherever they're fast, we're fast?
Having said that, we've seen speeds up to 70Mbps, the highest I've gotten from speedtest is about 30Mbps. It really depends which area, the 4G reception, how many cell towers there, how congested the network is. This is not just a Yoodo thing, but suppose all Telco has that dependency.
and YES, Yoodo is on both Band 3 & 7 and more =)
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