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Verizon Reverses Course on Plan to Throttle Unlimited LTE Customers

okwhatev said:
Screwed forever im afraid. Traded a paltry $500 subsidy for what can easily be worth thousands per month depending on your data useage.
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That would be some crazy data usage if we are talking "easily be worth thousands per month".
 
Mahler12x said:
I don't know. I was a long time att customer. Had a grandfathered unlimited and lost it. I switched to t-mobile for the unlimited and it's been great. Yeah there have been some minor coverage issues at times, but it's actually been rare. I'm in northern California where coverage is good. Having truly unlimited that's actually faster lte than I was getting with att makes it all with it.

My brother in law just switched too after getting throttled one too many times.
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In Los Angeles Verizon, although the most constantly consistant network, is no longer the fastest. Amazingly enough T-Mobile now takes the cake. On my iPhone 6, I regularly... About 70% of the time... Get 38/mbs downloads. Sometimes I even hit 50 and 60s. In Los Angeles with its network congestion, this is mostly unheard of. AT&T's LTE is mostly miserable save for a few obscure towers... And sprint's is pure garbage unless you have a great signal and spark capability. t-mobile's postpaid unlimited and unthrottled $80 a month plan is truly unbelievable with these kind of speeds and they deserve all the press and attention they're getting lately. It's an incredible turnaround.

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C DM said:
That would be some crazy data usage if we are talking "easily be worth thousands per month".
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My friends using Jailbroken iPhones using Verizon Unlimited 4G LTE regularly pull 2-3TB a month in data useage and use it as their primary Internet connection. And they should...they live right under one of the new XLTE towers and they paid for unlimited service. And boy do they get it...

At $15-25 per GB... How much would 3TB a month cost? Exactly.
 
C DM said:
That would be some crazy data usage if we are talking "easily be worth thousands per month".
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okwhatev said:
In Los Angeles Verizon, although the most constantly consistant network, is no longer the fastest. Amazingly enough T-Mobile now takes the cake. On my iPhone 6, I regularly... About 70% of the time... Get 38/mbs downloads. Sometimes I even hit 50 and 60s. In Los Angeles with its network congestion, this is mostly unheard of. AT&T's LTE is mostly miserable save for a few obscure towers... And sprint's is pure garbage unless you have a great signal and spark capability. t-mobile's postpaid unlimited and unthrottled $80 a month plan is truly unbelievable with these kind of speeds and they deserve all the press and attention they're getting lately. It's an incredible turnaround.

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My friends using Jailbroken iPhones using Verizon Unlimited 4G LTE regularly pull 2-3TB a month in data useage and use it as their primary Internet connection. And they should...they live right under one of the new XLTE towers and they paid for unlimited service. And boy do they get it...

At $15-25 per GB... How much would 3TB a month cost? Exactly.
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Well, like I said, some crazy data usage. Most people even with a stable fast cable/fiber/etc. internet connection hardly do more than a few hundred GB a month.

That said, what those people are doing isn't really the appropriate use of what Verizon provides, and then we wonder why they want to throttle or get people off the "unlimited" plans.

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markyr17 said:
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Yeah, pretty crazy data usage for a mobile data service.
 
C DM said:
Well, like I said, some crazy data usage. Most people even with a stable fast cable/fiber/etc. internet connection hardly do more than a few hundred GB a month.



That said, what those people are doing isn't really the appropriate use of what Verizon provides, and then we wonder why they want to throttle or get people off the "unlimited" plans.

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Yeah, pretty crazy data usage for a mobile data service.
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Good thing I signed up for unlimited then right?

(It's actually not my line, it's my in laws that I pay for)
 
markyr17 said:
Good thing I signed up for unlimited then right?

(It's actually not my line, it's my in laws that I pay for)
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Good for you, sure. Not really what Verizon envisioned for it more than likely, and probably at least part of the reason why they keep on trying to get people off unlimited and put in throttling in place where they can.
 
C DM said:
Good for you, sure. Not really what Verizon envisioned for it more than likely, and probably at least part of the reason why they keep on trying to get people off unlimited and put in throttling in place where they can.
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Anyway, the point was, it can be worth thousands per month.
 
markyr17 said:
Anyway, the point was, it can be worth thousands per month.
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Right, it can be, in some less than usual and more extreme circumstances where some crazy data usage (for a mobile service) is involved.
 
That crap BS about customers 'abusing' the system is a myth.
The hardware has a limitations in the speed of the connection and in a fixed billing cycle the maximum amount of data downloaded and uploaded is fixed.
Once what they charge is really in line with what you use the we a tiered price scheme would make sense. Another spin is for Althea carriers to offer data rollover therefore the data service you paid but not used is still yours.
 
McGiord said:
That crap BS about customers 'abusing' the system is a myth.
The hardware has a limitations in the speed of the connection and in a fixed billing cycle the maximum amount of data downloaded and uploaded is fixed.
Once what they charge is really in line with what you use the we a tiered price scheme would make sense. Another spin is for Althea carriers to offer data rollover therefore the data service you paid but not used is still yours.
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Well, some above posts talk about data usage in terabytes apparently, which is certainly well beyond what's envisioned for their services.
 
I just want to say thank you Verizon for kicking so much ass. With talk and surf finally on the iPhone 6 and this reversed course on unlimited data I'm one happy camper. The iPhone 6 not so much... a little too damn big. No longer a one-handed device and I'm so bummed out about that
 
McGiord said:
That crap BS about customers 'abusing' the system is a myth.
The hardware has a limitations in the speed of the connection and in a fixed billing cycle the maximum amount of data downloaded and uploaded is fixed.
Once what they charge is really in line with what you use the we a tiered price scheme would make sense. Another spin is for Althea carriers to offer data rollover therefore the data service you paid but not used is still yours.
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Yep. These articles are about AT&T throttling, but same principle.

http://consumerist.com/2014/09/30/att-where-congestion-data-caps-only-apply-to-existing-users/

http://arstechnica.com/information-...disappears-when-its-signing-up-new-customers/
 
Armen said:
there is a promotion you need to be aware that Verizon is offering right now:

- For every line you have out of contract you save $10/month if you have a 6GB data plan or less.

- For every line you have out of contract you save $25/month if you have a 10GB data plan.

I was paying $210.00/month for 6GB + 3 iPhones.

Now, I'm paying $175.00/month for 10GB + 3 iPhones (one of which is a new iphone 6 plus I ordered under 2 year contract that hasn't arrived yet).

To make things even better Verizon added another 5GB to my data plan as a customer loyalty promotion.

Before: $210.00/month for 6GB Data + 3 iPhones (tax included)

Now: $175.00/month for 15GB Data + 3 iPhones (tax included)

I literally saved $35/month and got 3 times the amount of data.
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You got 2.5x the data, not 3x lol. 3X would be18Gb. you literally didn't get 3x the data. You're literally incorrect with your math.
 
Thank you, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and to all that emailed to the FCC and complained ##
 
I too am hoping AT&T follows suit, but I imagine their lawyers will be hard at work for users who switched to tiered plans and left their grandfathered plans once throttling started.
 
We are starting to see the same thing happen with data that happened with Text messaging. The ridiculous costs are being driven down by both the FCC and competition between the other networks. This trend will continue and at some point the majority of us will no longer be getting raped.
 
I wouldn't count too much on that. They're still price colluding. Even their most recent "doubling" is just an attempt to pull more money from consumers :-/
 
AT&T still does, right?

I got the 'Hard Sell(tm)' to dump my unlimited data plan yesterday when I was checking to see if I could upgrade.

'You don't use it, why pay for it. You don't need that. We have a plan that includes tethering and with the 1G plan you wouldn't come close to maxing out.'

Yeah, I start tethering, and next thing you know daddy CEO gets a new jet, WITH the Tahitian Mahogany trim AND the Platinum toilet fixtures...

From my cold, dead hands, AT&T...

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GuitarDTO said:
We are starting to see the same thing happen with data that happened with Text messaging. The ridiculous costs are being driven down by both the FCC and competition between the other networks. This trend will continue and at some point the majority of us will no longer be getting raped.
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Someone QUICK! Wake this poor soul up!!!

Dude, you're dreaming again...

They will ALWAYS find another way to roger us silly...

Daddy needs a new jet, and another office remodel...
 
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