Google's Fi low cost wireless service adds unlimited data.

Google's Fi Low-Cost Wireless Service Adds Unlimited Data Here's How Much It Costs

  

Google added an unlimited data plan to its low-cost wireless service known as Google Fi, in a move aimed at popular offers from rivals Sprint, AT & T and others.

At $ 80 per line, the Fi Unlimited is not that cheap, but it is more flexible than the competition Rival plans require customers to select an unlimited plan and pay the fee for every month. The Fi plan lets customers get the very cheap feature of paying only for the data they actually use in a month until they reach a certain level when unlimited pricing kicks in.

Currently, Google Fi customers pay $ 20 monthly for the first line plus $ 10 per gigabit of data used. That's cheaper than most of the plans available from the major carriers and is not locked to the customer's estimates. Google also offers international roaming including high-speed data at the same price.

But since the major carriers have rolled out unlimited data plans over the past two years, the fi service is less appealing for heavy data users. Someone who used 10 GB in one month, for example, would pay $ 120 on Fi, versus the standard unlimited data plans of AT & T (T, + 0.41%) at $ 90, Verizon (VZ, + 0.08%) at $ 85, Sprint , -0.98%) at $ 60, and T-Mobile (TMUS, + 1.95%) at $ 70, that's all cost less for one line. And some of the carriers have even unlimited plans

Google's new unlimited feature, which is called "bill protection," caps charges for one line at $ 80, even if a customer uses 6 GB in one month. Plans with two lines get protection at $ 120, three lines at $ 135, and four lines at $ 150 Customers do not have to pay anything special, Google said.