Wireless ISP sales rep stopped by yesterday since we're in the new '5G' coverage zone. Not a lot of new or hopeful info though.
He told me 350GB was likely to remain the cap until next year if not longer, but that there were ongoing internal talks about offering unlimited, but that will definitely cost over $100 per month based on existing services and package pricing so he tells me. I asked about if free downloading throughout the early morning hours would ever be offered and he said no, not from their company ever, which isn't a surprise because they are top dog here in Canuckistan. I then suggested since they have a 100GB base package for $69, and 350GB for $79, that they should offer something like 500GB for another $10 maybe, because many around here won't pay over $100, even for unlimited. He said a higher fixed data cap was quite unlikely. He followed that up by telling me slower speeds aren't happening either due to mandates to increase base speeds to a min of 25mbps. So basically pay overages over $100 per month now, or eventually get unlimited for over $100 per month later. While too many options aren't good, just a couple isn't cutting it here.
He also informed me that it's actually some hybrid 4G LTE tech that's easily upgradeable to 5G in the future when they feel they need faster speeds and the pricing can be more reasonable. He also said this tech was much more capable in terms of penetrating foliage and their actual serviceable coverage is extremely high. He was using his company phone and some app to check signal which fluctuated between 3 and 4 bars on the side of the house facing the direction of the tower. He actually let me take it up the TV antenna tower to check up there, and at second story roof level I already had consistent 5 bars even though there's a ton of tree tops blocking the cell tower. There's another 20 ft of tower above that as well so signal strength likely wouldn't ever be a problem.
Just going to have to wait and see. I'm not all the hopeful though since odds are good most homes around here will be fine with a 350GB cap, so offering a higher data package won't really be necessary, unless it's a much larger problem elsewhere, and they decide to offer a data increase everywhere or unlimited.
