Verizon's 2017 unlimited plan disease goes into remission, as LTE speeds vs T-Mobile recover

Last year saw unlimited data plans become the norm, and, courtesy of the OpenSignal's communal methodology, we now have a snapshot of their impact in terms of LTE speed, availability and 3G fallback, for the big four US networks during the whole of 2017.

As you can see in the chart above, there were some notable hiccups when unlimited plans took over, especially at Verizon, as the largest carrier with the most subscribers to weigh on its network. After it followed in T-Mobile's footsteps, and introduced unlimited plans, the average data consumption immediately increased twofold. That put ...