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Verizon to Lift Video Streaming Restrictions for Unlimited Plans With Extra $10/Month Payment
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A great all-around solution for the closing up of the Internet until they start blocking VPNs... or charging the VPN's ISP for streaming too XD
It's probably not rocket science to detect the bandwidth usage pattern of streaming video even when running through a VPN and shape it by bitrate, especially if they have some sort of machine learning. Will they bother? Probably not.
What really gets me is the Go Unlimited with the depri. Postpaid plans should not have depri at all. MVNO prepaid stuff, fine, but not postpaid. Limiting speed like AT&T does is fine, at least you know exactly what you're paying for, like with cable internet.
Yeah, but they won't be able to make the site give you the lower resolution version or, for that matter, do any of the other usual carrier-website collusion. They could try charging you more, though.
Reading this thread is a good chuckle.i have been with Verizon for over 15 years.
We have had 3 lines on grandfathered unlimited plans and 1 2gb line and 1 flip phone line.
We we're paying like 290 a month and we kept that plan as long as we could until TMobile had the deal where you would get like 300 a line gift card for switching.
We went to TMobile and went over everything and we're going to go over it with everyone on the plan and see if everyone agreed to it.
That weekend is when Verizon introduced there new unlimited plan.thank good we didn't leave Verizon.
There new unlimited plan was the way it is now with 720p limit (TMobile was 480) and they gave us 12gb tethering (later upgraded to 15 at no charge) per LINE and it was 20 bucks a line with 4 lines or more.
They are giving you an option if you want 4k downloads for 10 bucks and are not changing the original contract of 720p and hello if you watch at 720p it don't eat up any of your 22gb per line limit before they throttle you.
We now have 6 unlimited lines and pay 220 a month plus taxes and it comes out to like 232 a month all in and our service absolutely destroys TMobile everywhere we go.
I have so many friends saying they wish the stayed on verizon.tmobile keeps blabing about it's 600 mhz band that is not up and running and won't be for like another 2-3 years let alone the phones out now don't support that band while Verizon has had it's 700mhz band for the last 15 years and is fully deployed and up and running.
Walk into any freaking building on TMobile and watch how you go from 60mb lte down to absolute dog **** 2mb 1x.
You people on TMobile know it but for some reason think it's worth saving 10 a month for it
We have had 3 lines on grandfathered unlimited plans and 1 2gb line and 1 flip phone line.
We we're paying like 290 a month and we kept that plan as long as we could until TMobile had the deal where you would get like 300 a line gift card for switching.
We went to TMobile and went over everything and we're going to go over it with everyone on the plan and see if everyone agreed to it.
That weekend is when Verizon introduced there new unlimited plan.thank good we didn't leave Verizon.
There new unlimited plan was the way it is now with 720p limit (TMobile was 480) and they gave us 12gb tethering (later upgraded to 15 at no charge) per LINE and it was 20 bucks a line with 4 lines or more.
They are giving you an option if you want 4k downloads for 10 bucks and are not changing the original contract of 720p and hello if you watch at 720p it don't eat up any of your 22gb per line limit before they throttle you.
We now have 6 unlimited lines and pay 220 a month plus taxes and it comes out to like 232 a month all in and our service absolutely destroys TMobile everywhere we go.
I have so many friends saying they wish the stayed on verizon.tmobile keeps blabing about it's 600 mhz band that is not up and running and won't be for like another 2-3 years let alone the phones out now don't support that band while Verizon has had it's 700mhz band for the last 15 years and is fully deployed and up and running.
Walk into any freaking building on TMobile and watch how you go from 60mb lte down to absolute dog **** 2mb 1x.
You people on TMobile know it but for some reason think it's worth saving 10 a month for it
Sorry for the delay. I've been under the weather.
www.att.com -> Shop & Support -> Wireless -> Talk, Text, & Data Plans
Click "Explore Plans" under Mobile Share Advantage.
Click "Choose a plan" at the top. Enter your zip code and click Submit.
Under the "AT&T PREPAID" tab, at the bottom, is an option for unlimited talk & text for $30/month ($25 with AutoPay).
I’m not sure what you mean by that. Even if you are streaming at 720p on your Verizon plan, it still very much counts towards your deprioritization limit. It just won’t happen as fast as if you were streaming at 1080p.
Also, T-Mobile is a GSM carrier so there’s no 1x.
Both, really. Bandwidth is a problem. I hate the BS tactics they use, but the selfish side of me is happy the unlimited users are getting screwed because I've got a limited plan and am sick of waiting forever to load a webpage.
They could just choke the user down to whatever speed when they detect someone trying to get around the bandwidth management, and that would surely provide a worse experience than not using the VPN.
