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Verizon Reserving Right to Throttle Data Speeds for Top 5% of Users
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lol.
You're obviously on some government welfare dole and don't understand how free markets work. (Or why people like you and I invest in these free markets).
What entitles you to certain phone rights with Verizon? Don't like it? Go to another phone carrier. Oh wait... they don't offer iPhones. Guess you should blame Apple, not Verizon.
Natural? So radio waves are just floating around waiting to be grabbed up? Again, LOL!
One class-action suit will open up their books and they know it. They aren't stupid.
So, Verizon will punish you without any other warning.....they will throttle your connection when they think it is time....nice.
Maybe I should get 2 Verizon iPhones....one for voice, one for data, and both to ensure a respectable data access speed.
Maybe I should get 2 Verizon iPhones....one for voice, one for data, and both to ensure a respectable data access speed.
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Yup!! until you are all trained to behave!!! And you learn not to be greedy and learn how to share
I stream video from my home PC (at iPhone 3GS quality, though I'm on a 4), remote in to my PCs to adjust server settings, do a lot of web surfing, etc. I also stream music a lot, usually over Pandora. I usually am in the 1.5 - 3 GB range (granted, I end up on being on a WiFi network about half the time, and sometimes am using my iPad with unlimited data instead of my iPhone). I don't consider this abusive usage. I simply use a lot of data.
I don't believe the top 5% is 30 gig+ people. I don't think one in twenty people use that much data. I've never met anyone that uses that much data; they'd have to jailbreak their phone and set it up as a web or bittorrent server or something. I'm sure some people do it, but not 5% of users.
I'm fairly sure people who stream all of their video and audio like me and land in the 1.5 to 3 GB range would be classified as heavy users/top 5% under this setup.
Yup!! until you are all trained to behave!!! And you learn not to be greedy and learn how to share
Data caps stifle innovation. We can't move services in to the cloud if people are worried to use the data. I've moved all of my video and music usage off of the phone... (Air Video <3)...this is the future.
This is a lot of fun!
I have to admit I haven't had this much laugh and fun on these forums in a long time he he!!
The days following Feb 10th will be interesting. Can't wait!! They should start charging for reading the posts here. Good entertainment value!
I have to admit I haven't had this much laugh and fun on these forums in a long time he he!!
The days following Feb 10th will be interesting. Can't wait!! They should start charging for reading the posts here. Good entertainment value!
To me, throttling isn't a big deal, but make it clear and give people options.
Unlimited Data Plans :
1 MB/s, $10/month
4 MB/s, $40/month
Max MB/s, $80/month
4GB Data Plans
1 MB/s, $5/month
4 MB/s, $30/month
Max, $60/month
(Just making numbers up, but something along those lines and let people chose what is best for them. Those who want Unlimited/Max will have to pay for it)
Unlimited Data Plans :
1 MB/s, $10/month
4 MB/s, $40/month
Max MB/s, $80/month
4GB Data Plans
1 MB/s, $5/month
4 MB/s, $30/month
Max, $60/month
(Just making numbers up, but something along those lines and let people chose what is best for them. Those who want Unlimited/Max will have to pay for it)
We don't know that quite yet when it comes to the iPhone. I am waiting for past Feb 10th. In all probability your verdict may be upheld by the jury.
I am glad tha verizon customers will finally have the chance to own an iphone. It is so much nicer than that Droid junk they have been using. That being said, I would not switch to Verizon if they were the last carrier on Earth.
But even you yourself said you are not crossing 5 gigs of wireless data. If you cross 5 gigs of data over the cellarer network you are on the abuser side. Wifi to me does not count against that abuse.
This is exactly why at&t got rid of the unlimited plan and went to tiers. They learnt their lesson. Verizon is playing the game. "Unlimited" wink wink ;-) isn't exactly unlimited.
And as expected, the other foot (or in this case, feet) is (are) starting to drop.
All hail the mighty, can do no wrong, Verizon: savior of the iPhone.
AT&T has to be fairly happy to have some of the flack they've taken for 4.5 years offloaded to the nations most over hyped network. While there will be loss, I predict they will not lose nearly as many customers as the media/blogs/forum posters would like to portray. I know I'm not going anywhere.
All hail the mighty, can do no wrong, Verizon: savior of the iPhone.
AT&T has to be fairly happy to have some of the flack they've taken for 4.5 years offloaded to the nations most over hyped network. While there will be loss, I predict they will not lose nearly as many customers as the media/blogs/forum posters would like to portray. I know I'm not going anywhere.
And as expected, the other foot (or in this case, feet) is (are) starting to drop.
All hail the mighty, can do no wrong, Verizon: savior of the iPhone.
AT&T has to be fairly happy to have some of the flack they've taken for 4.5 years offloaded to the nations most over hyped network. While there will be loss, I predict they will not lose nearly as many customers as the media/blogs/forum posters would like to portray. I know I'm not going anywhere.
I can't wait for the at&t TV commericals to come out taking pot shots at Verizon.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)
Personally, I'm more annoyed with the idea that Verizon is going to (re)compress content. I want my content in its originially intended state.
Personally, I'm more annoyed with the idea that Verizon is going to (re)compress content. I want my content in its originially intended state.
Uhhh, no. I said iPhone users are typically IN the top 5% of data users... I didn't say they used more or less data than Android users.
Regardless, it is no coincidence that they are announcing this just as they're about to launch the iPhone w/ WAP tethering capability.
I certainly can't blame them for proactively trying to avoid the problems that plagued AT&T rather than just relying on the myth that has been propagated over the last few years that their network could easily have handled the iPhone's data traffic.
A good step
If that means the service quality improves, I wish AT&T would do the same for top 5% of data users. Hopefully that would mean better connection/call quality. As it is, the service is very bad. Too many people using it for the capacity? They have to do something to fix that.
If that means the service quality improves, I wish AT&T would do the same for top 5% of data users. Hopefully that would mean better connection/call quality. As it is, the service is very bad. Too many people using it for the capacity? They have to do something to fix that.
I have to admit I haven't had this much laugh and fun on these forums in a long time he he!!
The days following Feb 10th will be interesting. Can't wait!! They should start charging for reading the posts here. Good entertainment value!
You can read unlimied posts for $30.
I agree. I think the throttling issue may not be such a big deal. The compression is going to affect everyone across the board and that is a bigger problem in my opinion. I upload images and video to MobileMe, Flickr etc. from my iPhone to share or backup. I would hate for them to be compressed by the carrier. Perhaps they only compress images and videos going from one cellular customer to another in which case the compression may not be apparent on the small screen?