Seeking unlimited data for an iphone

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I'm an iPhone user on AT&T with grandfathered unlimited data. I recently started making use of said 'unlimited' data and am hitting their 3GB cap pretty quick each month. At this point, do either Verizon or Sprint offer actual unlimited data for iPhone 4Ses? If they don't do so publicly, do they do it if I call them up and give them my sob story?
Sprint does
Sprint throttles the top users too. ... -throttle/
TheVelourFog wrote:

That is not what your link actually says.

Sprint does not currently throttle.
I wish Sprint would throttle. Make it crazy high, like 10GB, basically enough that phone users won't hit it but it will limit people who are killing the network by using it as their entire internet.
That's what it says. They throttle the abusers, the top users...not sure how you guys missed that.

"Sprint might claim it offers “truly unlimited” data for its smartphone plans, but the telecom admitted it still penalizes its heaviest users."
That is the interpretation of the author.

This is the quote from Hesse: "Dow Jones quotes Hesse as saying, “For those that want to abuse it, we can knock them off.”"

Can does not mean are.
That's a corporate response man. It's obvious they mean high usage as abuse, therefore it is not unlimited.

Ironically enough it's the rest of the quote you posted that proves my point.

"Sprint, a carrier that often touts itself as the only carrier with “truly unlimited” data plans, actually throttles its heaviest data users. Speaking at an investor conference on Thursday, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse admitted that Sprint imposes limits the top 1% of data hogs. “For those that want to abuse it, we can knock them off,” Hesse said. The executive explained that Sprint needs to throttle — or slow down the data speeds — of its heaviest users in order to make room for the growing number of smartphone users on its 3G and 4G WiMAX networks."
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