> Enjoy unlimited high-speed data; after 50GB, speeds may slow to 256 kbps.

Last I checked 256 Kbps is not high speed. You can advertise this as unlimited data, or you can advertise it as 50 GB of high-speed data, but you can't call it unlimited high-speed data.

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johndoylecape 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's a fair point, we should change that verbiage.

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quietsegfault 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Why can’t it throttle to something slightly higher? Even 100-200 KBps? Is that a requirement from the “upstream” network provider?

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johndoylecape 12 hours ago | parent [-]

It's not. We chose this baseline sort of by default based on the practices of some other major carriers. Your question is a good one, and we'll take it as feedback.

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phantom784 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

A few Mbps would be nice - fast enough to make the modern web mostly usable. 256 Kbps is almost the same as not working at all.

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altairprime 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I would be a lot less worried about signing up for that plan if I could soft-cap myself at 10GB until I login to the app and push a button that says "yeah for real I'm going to use another 10GB of mobile data", so that if iOS goes bonkers and tries to download my entire 90GB iTunes library over cellular, it doesn't fuck me over for a month. I haven't exceeded 7GB/mo intentionally for years, but it's happened twice so far against my express wishes, and carriers are uniformly awful at that.

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bsstoner 4 hours ago | parent [-]

This is good feedback. We don’t want caps and throttling to be a blocker for signing up and using us. Since we’re at a premium price point we should economically be able to be a lot more generous than existing carriers.

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bombcar 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Charge $5 more for everyone, and then rebate $5 against your next bill if you don't go over X GB or whatever.

It ends up being the same as charging $5 if you go over, but it'll feel much more premium.

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chirau 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I would like to try Cape. How do guys deal with IMEI tracking from folks like Google when i search or use their email? Or that one is beyond your control?

	▲	throawayonthe 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Can you elaborate?

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jauntywundrkind 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Google Fi has been 256k after the soft cap since they launched. Majorly embarrassing, took me tears to sign up because of this.

Comcast I think is the best? Haven't checked in a while but their mobile plan I think soft caps to 1Mbps.

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cbdevidal 4 hours ago | parent [-]

A slightly different definition of “best” is Verizon’s Visible division. NO caps. Just slightly deprioritized speeds 100% of the time. Their website says 5Mbps speed cap at all times but I’ve tested 180Mbps and that was after using like 30GB on my hotspot. Basically all-you-can-eat (including the hotspot) with a risk that sometimes it’ll slow a little compared to others on the network, for $25/mo.

	▲	bombcar 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There's a real big difference between "one byte over the line and you're on a 56k modem" and "if you exceed your cap, you're deprioritized to last on the cell pole". The latter is how it should be implemented.