NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Unlimited data plans haven’t quite gone the way of the dinosaur, but they’re lurching toward extinction. Want to stay free from tracking the gigabytes of data your new iPhone 5 is sucking down? Here’s a rundown of your dwindling options, listed in order from the easiest to the most agonizing.
1. Get Sprint. The last remaining national iPhone carrier to offer unlimited data to both new and current customers is Sprint (S, Fortune 500). So whether you’re upgrading from a previous Sprint phone or switching carriers, you can get an iPhone 5 on Sprint without worrying about going over a data limit.
2. Keep your legacy AT&T plan.AT&T has done away with unlimited data for new customers, but millions of existing AT&T subscribers are still holding onto their legacy unlimited plans. If you’re one of them, you can upgrade to the iPhone 5 and keep your plan — unlimited data and all.
If you’re not, then no unlimited data for you. (Next!) AT&T (T, Fortune 500) only offers tiered plans to new customers or current subscribers who have given up their unlimited data plans. The tiered plans come in two flavors: individual or “Mobile Share,” the latter of which allows customers to share one pool of data among multiple devices.
Those customers clinging to unlimited data plans may not have to monitor their gigabytes, but they also won’t get everything the iPhone has to offer. The new iOS 6 operating system that comes with the iPhone 5 offersApple’s (AAPL, Fortune 500) FaceTime video chat service over the cellular network for the first time, but AT&T has restricted that feature. It’s only available to the company’s Mobile Share customers.
3. Buy an iPhone 5 at full price and keep your legacy Verizon plan.Like AT&T, Verizon (VZ, Fortune 500) has killed off unlimited data for new customers. But Big Red took
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