$1 For 1 Year Unlimited Data Service At Virgin Mobile

Competition in the mobile carrier arena is really heating up now. T-Mobile might have recently lit its competitor’s feet on fire by offering to pay off consumers’ plans if they switched from Verizon, but another carrier recently made an even bolder offer. For only $1 on the first year, users can get unlimited mobile data from Virgin Mobile. They simply need to buy an iPhone first.

As caveats go, Virgin Mobile’s condition to get one year of unlimited data for only $1 is pretty peculiar. Customers basically need to go to the Apple Store or one of the carrier’s physical locations to get an iPhone before they can avail of the offer, CNET reports. The users could then transfer their number onto the new devices.

A discouraging aspect of the deal is that customers who already have an iPhone, even the latest version, will not be able to take advantage of this offer. This is all part of Virgin Mobile’s efforts to be an Apple-only carrier and this is evident in the fact that it no longer offers devices from other companies and with different OS installed.

Then again, once customers look a little closer at what the $1 a year offer entails, they may not think it’s worth it anyway. For one thing, unlimited data does not mean users can surf and download files as much as they want all day long. As Tech Crunch reports, if the users surpass 23GB of data per billing cycle, their connection becomes slower since it gets deprioritized.

What’s more, customers who make a lot of calls might find themselves getting cut off by the carrier. The limit is only 800 minutes of voice calls or 100MB. Virgin Mobile is basically reserving the rights to terminate user services at that point, although, the carrier might inform its consumers once they are in danger of exceeding that limit before termination first.