Verizon starts data throttling today

[Zepaw]

AT&T always says 2% or less use more than 2GB, so how little much the bottom 95% use?!

 

[bgish3]

Fair enough. I definitely don't have a problem with the throttling. I see no reason why anyone would need to use upwards of 10GB in a month on a mobile phone. For me to accomplish that I would have to try really hard not to use the free or home WiFi that surrounds most people nowadays.

I live in a small town with no hotspot access and no internet providers so my smartphone is my only internet access and I use anywhere from 8 to 12 gb a month

 

[err404]

Only throttle when a particular tower or network component is reaching capacity.

Should I be throttled when I'm using 5GB, but on a tower and backhaul that's currently idle otherwise?

Randomly throttling a user because they used more bandwidth makes no sense. It only makes sense when they are causing an issue.

Unfortunately they stated that the penalty will affect you for the remainder of your billing cycle + the subsequent cycle.

Personally I prefer the AT&T method. Just charge me more if I'm over. But dont slow me down.
Again, I guess it depends on how much they throttle you.

I live in a small town with no hotspot access and no internet providers so my smartphone is my only internet access and I use anywhere from 8 to 12 gb a month

That sucks, because you're unquestionably effected.

 

[Zero!sOne]

I live in a small town with no hotspot access and no internet providers so my smartphone is my only internet access and I use anywhere from 8 to 12 gb a month

Unfortunately they stated that the penalty will affect you for the remainder of your billing cycle + the subsequent cycle.

Personally I prefer the AT&T method. Just charge me more if I'm over. But dont slow me down.
Again, I guess it depends on how much they throttle you.


That sucks, because you're unquestionably effected.

Yes, that does suck a lot for you. Unfortunately you are one of the few individuals that will have your wallet raped without mercy by whatever wireless provider you choose (though hopefully you got your hands on an unlimited AT&T plan and held on to it).

And I would definitely prefer a few disconnects here and there with much faster overall speeds than having my provider control how fast and at what quality I receive that data I pay for.

Verizon will now be known as the communist of American cell providers. Public facade: "Sure, sure, you can take all the data you want. We are all equals here, and we are all happy." Meanwhile, the secret police are limiting your speeds and controlling what passes through their gates to get to your minds.

 

[dccorona]

A quick google I found one of them that works
http://www.gizmocrunch.com/mobile/5055-verizon-iphone-data-throttling-unlimited-plan

That being provided this is something I wish AT&T would of done as well. Personally I like how T-Mobile handles bandwithe abusers and that is after 5gigs of data they throttle the users pretty hard. I wish AT&T would take the abusers and say after 5 gigs kick them off 3G and force them to EDGE speeds and if it is still bad reduce them another level to GPRS speeds for the rest of the billing cycle.
Still have unlimited but the abusers are killed off and the people abusing the tethering now are no going to be an issue when streaming is killed.

if you aren't going to let people use unlimited data, don't offer unlimited data.

 

[Olivia23]

Wow. I've been defending Verizon like crazy but this really ticks me off! They are talking about it on the news saying that if your on the road and your trying to watch Netflix, it could be even more pixelated than it already is. That's one if the reasons I am getting the iphone because I love having Netflix on vacation.

I wish At&t would improve their edge network so I can switch back if Verizon gets to throttle happy.

 

[Jeff5i]

Wow. I've been defending Verizon like crazy but this really ticks me off! They are talking about it on the news saying that if your on the road and your trying to watch Netflix, it could be even more pixelated than it already is. That's one if the reasons I am getting the iphone because I love having Netflix on vacation.

I wish At&t would improve their edge network so I can switch back if Verizon gets to throttle happy.

I can't stand the throttling, but the best netflix experience is with WiFi anyway. Won't your vacation spot have WiFi nearby?

 

[richpjr]

Only throttle when a particular tower or network component is reaching capacity.

Should I be throttled when I'm using 5GB, but on a tower and backhaul that's currently idle otherwise?

Randomly throttling a user because they used more bandwidth makes no sense. It only makes sense when they are causing an issue.

In this case, you may not. The exact verbiage is

...if you use an extraordinary amount of data and fall within the top 5% of Verizon Wireless data users we may reduce your data throughput speeds periodically for the remainder of your then current and immediately following billing cycle...

It doesn't say if you are in the top 5 all of your data is throttled for this cycle and next. It may be periodically throttled.

 

[Olivia23]

I can't stand the throttling, but the best netflix experience is with WiFi anyway. Won't your vacation spot have WiFi nearby?

No. We go to the beach and rent a house at the campground. The area where the store/pool/eatery is has wifi, but it's only that area, so it's nice to have it in the room, and on the road while traveling.