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Verizon to Cut Off Unlimited Data Customers Who Exceed 100GB of Usage Per Month
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see my last post.
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my UDP is under contract until 2017.
We use pretty much 80 to 100GB 4g data a month Wi-fi - Skype, CCTV, amazon prime video, iPlayer, youtube, backups, software updates, browsing, e-mail etc
I love how people who have been FORCED to cut their usage and their habits cuz they wanted a $100 subsidy at the time, can't fathom how data racks up.
Oh and meanwhile.. Canadians are paying $80 a month for 200mb data lol
I average about 30 GB/month on my UDP. They can cut me off. I'll just cancel my service. My company gives me an AT&T plan with unlimited voice and data.
I always thought that over 50GB is ridiculous. Couple months ago I dropped my home internet and only use cellular. And we just switched to T-Mo that offers unlimited. This month when I checked our usage my youngest a 9 year old used 120GB. Second is my other daughter a teenager at 42GB and next is me at 31GB. In this case I disabled Binge-On so most of her streaming is on HD. I'm still surprised how much she used so I talked to her. It's not a concern from carrier but the time spent on those data usage. SMH!
Especially if u only payed for 1gb a month. The overage fee could feed a an entire village for a week.
I was but finally had to switch to AT&T this year from T-Mobile because the T-Mobile coverage was so poor for me. I liked the T-Mobile plans but I found they didn't have the coverage.
Source for T-Mobile 3G throttling? Because that doesn't exist. It's 26GB before you're deprioritized relative to others on a particular tower and sector that are seeing excess load. Most of the time, this isn't noticeable. AT&T is the same with theirs, but you're deprioritized at 22GB.
you probably know this but AirPlay will use WLAN (or bluetooth), so zero data from your 100GB. cheers
I'm streaming the movie from the phone pulling data from the server sending it to the Apple TV, are you telling me that doesn't use data originally? Lol. Right.
You're either tethering or you've not reset in a while.Not for you to decide.
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Possibly, but in a month with 31 days, that's 12.7GB per day, something that can be achieved in just under an hour at an average LTE or HSPA+ download rate of 30Mbps.
What most people understand by the term 'unlimited':
-without limitations, use as much as you want, don't worry about it, you're covered.
What mobile networks mean by the term 'unlimited':
-more data than the other plans*, but we can add arbitrary limits whenever we like to cover for our own poor planning when we promised too much, and there's not really anything you can do about it, so suck it up.
*unless it isn't.
-without limitations, use as much as you want, don't worry about it, you're covered.
What mobile networks mean by the term 'unlimited':
-more data than the other plans*, but we can add arbitrary limits whenever we like to cover for our own poor planning when we promised too much, and there's not really anything you can do about it, so suck it up.
*unless it isn't.
**** you Verizon! I use in average 65GB of data monthly from regular use. When and if my plan ever gets cut off I'll move to another carrier. It might not make a shi+ of difference. But it will satisfy me. How can other countries have unlimited data plans for dirt cheap and not us in the USA? It's embarrassing. Greedy bastards. They have the money and resources to make it happen.
If only you knew the price of mobile plans in Australia, then you'd have something to complain about.
This article must be intended for the Pokemon Go users who burn through this much data.
This is flat out WRONG.
First off, it's 26 GB.
Secondly, they do NOT throttle to 3G. You are marked as deprioritized. This makes NO impact to you speed wise unless you are on a tower with heavy usage, and even then, it's still speeds that are usable to do most everything on the Internet.
"Customers who use more than 26GB of data during a billing cycle will be de-prioritized for the remainder of the billing cycle in times and at locations where there are competing customer demands for network resources. At the start of the next bill cycle, the customer’s usage status is reset, and this data traffic is no longer de-prioritized.
Where the network is lightly loaded in relation to available capacity, a customer whose data is de-prioritized will notice little, if any, effect from having lower priority. This will be the case in the vast majority of times and locations. At times and at locations where the network is heavily loaded in relation to available capacity, however, these customers will likely see significant reductions in data speeds, especially if they are engaged in data-intensive activities. T-Mobile constantly works to improve network performance and capacity, but there are physical and technical limits on how much capacity is available, and in constrained locations the frequency of heavy loading in relation to available capacity may be greater than in other locations. When network loading goes down or the customer moves to a location that is less heavily loaded in relation to available capacity, the customer’s speeds will likely improve."
http://www.t-mobile.com/company/company-info/consumer/internet-services.html
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Hey BeSweeet! What up! Nice to see some /r/tmobile users here on MR.
Signed,
wghummel (as you know me there)
Let me understand this correctly.
You, Kobayashi Takeru, arrived at a restaurant that offers "All you can eat hot dogs" and a pay as you eat hot dog menu.
When you decided to go for the all you can eat but the restaurant is telling you that you can only have so 100 hot dogs or else they are going to call the cops on you.
Meanwhile, Joey Chestnut arrived and ordered 101 hotdogs off the menu and the restaurant is happily serving him...
Did I miss anything?
You, Kobayashi Takeru, arrived at a restaurant that offers "All you can eat hot dogs" and a pay as you eat hot dog menu.
When you decided to go for the all you can eat but the restaurant is telling you that you can only have so 100 hot dogs or else they are going to call the cops on you.
Meanwhile, Joey Chestnut arrived and ordered 101 hotdogs off the menu and the restaurant is happily serving him...
Did I miss anything?