Verizon CEO Says "We Will Hunt Heavy Users Down" 738
Zerocool3001 writes "In an interview with WSJ editor Alan Murray,Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg talks about how the FCC's broadband access studies are wrong (and the US is definitely 'number one, not even close'), how he had someone else stand in line for him Saturday to pick up his iPad, and how Verizon will soon hunt down, throttle and/or charge high-bandwidth users on its network."
What Kind of Huntin' Are We Talkin' About Here? (Score:5, Funny)
Verizon will soon hunt down
"The Most Dangerous Game hunt down" or the boring old e-mail notification? Because if it's the former, I might start seeding large sets of prime numbers labeled as "Natalie Portman sex tape" through my noisy neighbor's unsecured wifi network connected to his Verizon FIOS.
Re:Come to Verizon! (Score:3, Funny)
They'll get the Verizon guy, as well as his posse out for you.
http://nycom.com/images/network2.jpg [nycom.com]
And that map of the US with all that red? Those are targets.
Re:Come to Verizon! (Score:5, Funny)
Hah (Score:2, Funny)
Verizon: Do you hear me now, motherfuckers?
Communist! (Score:5, Funny)
This CEO is smarter and harder working than you as evidenced by the fact that he makes more money than you. You think you know better than your betters? If there was anything wrong with what he said, the magic of the Free Market would have prevented him from saying it! If you want the nannystate to do everything for you, move to a communist country like Canada or Europe with all the other collectivist socialists!!!!!!11!1!1oneone [/conservative]
Re:Oh No, you're using the service you paid for! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Come to Verizon! (Score:5, Funny)
Fixed that for you:
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_UjgyEXeDpYo/S74drJ79OpI/AAAAAAAAAR8/NERXd6BQXjk/s800/canyouhearmenowbitch.jpg [ggpht.com]
Re:Come to Verizon! (Score:3, Funny)
that is because the eropean ones are laden with coconuts...
Re:Come to Verizon! (Score:4, Funny)
Who cares about getting it right? That's like telling people they need to masturbate a different way. Hell, it's not even "like" it, it is that exactly.
Re:Come to Verizon! (Score:5, Funny)
This is Verizon we're dealing with, remember...
User 1: I'm Spartacus!
*BLAM*
User 2: I'm... I'm Spartacus!
*BLAM*
User 3: Um... I'm Spartacus?
*BLAM*
(User 4 just shakes nervously)
*BLAM*
*BLAM*
Soldier 1: That last one was just for fun! No more backtalk!
Soldier 2: Look at that! We're running out of users! They must be doing something illegal! Get our senator on the line!
Re:Come to Verizon! (Score:3, Funny)
*whew* /FiOS user
Re:Come to Verizon! (Score:5, Funny)
If an ad said "This car gets 400mpg", the average person would expect it to mean 400mpg averaged over a tank not an instantaneous value at some point in time.
So... you propose a new disclaimer for ISP services - "15Mbps downhill in a hurricane."
Re:Come to Verizon! (Score:5, Funny)
Queue the theme from Jaws:
Cue. It's cue. As in "This is my cue to pipe in the theme for Jaws". Granted, queue can make sense in a CS-type queuing up the theme, but....
Ah, fuck it. Go mangle the English language. I'll be curled up in bed, sucking on my language-nazi thumb.
Re:Come to Verizon! (Score:3, Funny)
The number of orders of magnitude is within an order of magnitude.
Re:Communist! (Score:3, Funny)
This CEO is smarter and harder working than you as evidenced by the fact that he makes more money than you. You think you know better than your betters? If there was anything wrong with what he said, the magic of the Free Market would have prevented him from saying it! If you want the nannystate to do everything for you, move to a communist country like Canada or Europe with all the other collectivist socialists!!!!!!11!1!1oneone [/conservative]
You forgot to mention welfare sponges, liberals, jews, the global warming hoax, and water fluoridation. Other than that, 9/10. :)
Re:Come to Verizon! (Score:1, Funny)
"Nazi" needs to be capitalized (it's a proper noun).
Better bite that thumb and draw some blood to wash away the taste of Fail.
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Reichsgestapo for Language Korrektness
Re:Come to Verizon! (Score:5, Funny)
This thread has peaked my interest.
So? They hunt down and charge low BW users, too (Score:3, Funny)
It's ridiculous how little BW I use on my Verizon account each month, and how much I get charged for it. So I'm not surprised the high bandwidth users will be hunted down and charged. They do that to low bandwidth users. They do it to everybody. They're not treating high BW users any differently from anybody else.
Re:Come to Verizon! (Score:3, Funny)
Emily Litella replies (Score:3, Funny)
Emily Litella: What all this fuss I keep hearing about Verizon's CEO wanting to hunt down heavy users? Why it's outrageous! Hunt down fellow human beings? Why that's murder! A man gains a little power and he thinks he can do whatever he wants! Any why single out the heavy users? They're slower and make bigger targets! Is he a cannibal? If he wants real sport he should be hunting the skinny ones! And it's a fine way to be treating customers anyway! He should be going after people who use Boost Mobile! If I hear one more person saying "Where You At?" I'll get a gun myself!
CT: Um, Ms. Litella..
EL: What, what?!
CT: Mr. Seidenberg was referring to heavy broadband users, not heavy people. And when he said "hunt them down" he was speaking metaphorically. He wants to charge people who use broadband all the time more than those who don't.
EL: Oh, I see. That's very different.
CT: Yes.
EL: Kind of a misleading headline.
CT: Well, we'll speak to timothy about that.
EL: Never mind. But this guy's still being a dick though.
Re:Come to Verizon! (Score:5, Funny)
100 Mbit is the lowest I could get even if I tried here in Sweden
Didn't you hear the CEO of Verizon? He says we're number one! That's us in the US, not some Vikings of the north. Stop clouding the debate with your "facts."
You know, it feels like time to deregulate again. It hasn't worked for the last decade and a half, but I'm sure it will work from now on. Too bad there are no countries on the Internet except the US or we'd be able to compare broadband policies and consider something different.
Re:Come to Verizon! (Score:3, Funny)
Only if they're GNU speakers...
Re:Come to Verizon! (Score:3, Funny)
Exactly, 90% of all the sites I go to are no faster on my home 20,000,000,000Mbps Ultimate speedboosted comcast platinum connection compared to the horribly slow 1024Kbps T1 line we have at work.
Slashdot loads at the exact same speed, In fact downloads go about the same speed, and VoIP works better over the T1 compared to comcast (comcast has nasty jitter and latency)
Until I see a site that actually loads faster on a ultra giggy mondo big-ass taco internet with electrolytes, It's stupid to pay for it. When my sale price runs out, i'm getting the low end DSL for $21.95 a month.. that's 2.4meg down and 512K up for me.... that's even good enough for Netflix HD streaming to an Xbox360.
Re:Come to Verizon! (Score:5, Funny)
WHAT DO YOU WANT, CUE?
Re:Come to Verizon! (Score:5, Funny)
He ain't no dummy, he know that AMERICA is the best country on earth!!! We don't need no commie Sweden universal healthcare, vacation time, infant mortality rate, life expectancy, or high speed web conneckshuns, cause we're number 1!!!! Start saying it, then repeat, over and over, repeatedly, with great repetition and redundancy, and you'll believe it too! Unless you hate America and freedom, you know we're NUMBER 1!!!!
PS: Don't forget that Verizon, GM, Coca Cola, McDonalds, Microsoft, Anheuser Busch, and Fox News have what you want and are AMERICAN - trust them, no matter what they say, and give them money. Unless u r a gay-loving commie terrorist. You do love your country,right????
Atlantic Broadband? (Score:2, Funny)
Does anyone here on /. have any views or experience with Atlantic BB along these lines? Meaning, have you ever head of caps per month, or received any type of warnings for such? I have to admit, I'm guilty of using torrents on occasions (far from 24/7 basis, more like 2 days a month), but I mostly just game online and browse.
Its becoming a bit of a problem, because I would like to downgrade my service but I don't want to deal with a cap or anything. The prices have been going up and up over the past two years, with nothing new to offer recently than Lifetime and E! in HD, so I would like to offset the cost of my internet cost while keeping all of my HD stations. $190 a month for 2nd tier internet access, HD package with HBO (only $5 extra), and two DVRs (its very necessary in our house to have them, with two girls under 10). Could potentially save a bit going with the basic tier internet, but I don't want to handicap myself without knowing what I'm asking for.
I'd hate to keep throwing money at them if they keep use it to add junk stations. Regardless, its hard to get a real view on their internet access because its quite hard to find someone else that uses Atlantic BB and knows what they're talking about. Most of my friends use Verizon DSL, and other people at work have Atlantic but just take the "Hey, thats what it costs so I pay" mentality. Anyhow, hope theres a fellow Atlantic BB'er out there who can offer a point of view!