Verizon Purges Unlimited Data Customers, Targets Those Using 200GB (arstechnica.com) 196
If you're a Verizon customer on an unlimited data plan who uses more than 200GB a month, you will soon need to switch to a limited plan or be disconnected, according to Verizon. "Because our network is a shared resource and we need to ensure all customers have a great mobile experience with Verizon, we are notifying a small group of customers on unlimited plans who use more than 200GB a month that they must move to a Verizon Plan by February 16, 2017," Verizon spokesperson Kelly Crummey told Ars Technica today. Ars reports: Since Verizon stopped offering unlimited data to new smartphone customers in 2011, this change affects only longtime customers who were allowed to hang on to the old plans. Verizon could simply force all customers who aren't under contract to switch to new plans, but instead it has periodically made moves that reduce the numbers of unlimited data subscribers. This policy will apply to people who average more than 200GB "over several months," Verizon said. Customers who do not move to limited plans "will be disconnected," Verizon confirmed. On limited plans, customers get reduced speeds after they exceed monthly data limits unless they purchase extra 4G LTE data. Verizon previously purged its unlimited data rolls in August 2016. In that case, Verizon set a limit of 500GB a month, the company told Ars today. This is more specific information than we previously reported. Shortly before the August 2016 move, Verizon told us that it was targeting customers who were "using data amounts well in excess of our largest plan size (100GB)," but Verizon did not specify that it was only targeting customers using at least 500GB. With the threshold being dropped from 500GB to 200GB, the latest move will affect customers who weren't using enough data to be caught up in the last round.
Unlimited? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Unlimited? (Score:5, Insightful)
If you want to be obtuse: unlimited plans are grandfathered, kept for existing customer loyalty purposes but not offered to new subscribers. They could force everyone (out of contract, which is everyone on unlimited plans) to switch to their 100GB plan or simply terminate service - just because they offered the unlimited plans back in 2011 does not obligate them to continue to offer them in 2017.
Now, having defended the big red V, let me say that they are douchebags to do business with and I dropped them like a hot potato once I moved to a location where they weren't the only provider with decent coverage in my neighborhood.
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Not quite. There have been loopholes which allowed renewing unlimited plans - that would happen if you got a subsidized phone and didn't change plans. I'm still on an unlimited contract until later this year. But your point is taken, they could terminate unlimited even for people under contract if they wanted to, but those people would have the opportunity to leave without paying an early termination fee.
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It's unlimited right up to the moment where they no longer want you as a customer. It is truly unlimited. But they're letting you know that you only get one month unlimited before you'll be kicked to the curb.
If you offer "free electricity!" but someone comes and plugs in a hybrid car through an extension cord you can ban them and it doesn't make the electricity they used any more or less free.
Re:Unlimited? (Score:5, Insightful)
If they're under contract, per the contract terms, Verizon can change it at any time and make unlimited go away - but also per the contract, the user then has a choice. If they don't like it, they can leave without having to pay any early termination fee.Their choice.
If they're not under contract, what's the problem? There's no obligation for either party to continue.
Verizon has been very reasonable about allowing people to remain on unlimited plans, they could simply make everyone on one sign up for a current plan if they wished. But they don't - they're still letting people who use less that 2x the current maximum plan stay around, and at less cost than moving to that plan.
Re:Unlimited? (Score:4, Insightful)
Verizon hasn't been reasonable at all... They've had their asses kicked by the Obama FCC every time they tried to impose limits or restrictions. They've tried not to piss off the FCC, and now that Trump is about to gut the agency, Verizon no longer has anything to worry about, for the next 4 years at least.
Definition of Unlimited (Score:2)
in the USA... (Score:2)
In the USA... unlimited limits you.
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99% of our TV viewing is streaming from services like Netflix.
One month when we still had teenage kids at home we went through 1600 GB, yep thats right 1.6TB, no problems, no slowing down, no "fair use" warning, no blocking of any ports/services , all on VDSL 70/30.
I run my own servers from home, that not a problem, I have both POTS and SIP for phones.
I have access to maybe 20 different ISPs whom offer varia
Re:Unlimited? (Score:4, Insightful)
This is about mobile internet over cell, not wired/fiber internet to your home.
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What's the difference? If your only other option is unreliable 3 Mbit ADSL that drops out when it rains, you're damned right people are going to use this as a home Internet connection.
If Verizon thinks they have a problem with unlimited data users on the cellular network, they can easily fix it by bringing FiOS to the 97% of the customers in their monopoly "turf" who get no service at all from them, or only ADSL. This is a problem they themselves created.
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Cell phone providers really need to stop selling unlimited plans.
Pretty much all of them have but most of them also grandfather in old customers some of which have unlimited plans from back when the average bandwidth used was a lot lower than it is today. I'm actually surprised that they all have such generous grandfathering provisions when to my knowledge they are under no obligation to honor a contract that expired 10 years ago. Very few other industries do this. It's normal in other industries to get occasional rate hikes. For instance, unless there are specific l
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What the hell does net neutrality have to do with the data limits on cellphone plans?
Moving away from unlimited and into more expensive and limited plans pushes people towards provider-sanctioned services for which the bandwidth does not count towards your monthly usage. This goes against network neutrality, even if the topic is bandwidth usage instead of transfer speed.
What the hell does Trump's winning the US Presidential election have to do with cellphone data plans?
Trump is an opponent of net neutrality [recode.net].
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Three in the UK/Ireland has that little * that states they throttle you at 5GB.
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Really? That low? Just looked and their "all you can eat" data plan allows 30GB of it to be used as a personal hotspot, implying you can use more than that as long as it's not as a hotspot. Their highest limited plan is 30GB, so I doubt they'd throttle unlimited at 5GB?
Re: Unlimited? (Score:2)
Really? You don't understand the difference between 'unlimited' and 'unthrottled'? The unlimited plans we are discussing today have no actual defined data 'limit' you can consume as much data bandwidth as you like, only the first 100-200 or more Gigabytes of data are unthrottled, after you exceed the carrier-defined threshold your data rate slows down, but does not stop - if it stoppe
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Do you really need to watch a youtube video demo or will browsing regular webpages do? do you really need a video call or will voice/text do? Does it really need to be done right now or can it wait until I get back to somewhere with a fixed line? do you really need to watch cat videos to entertain yourself or could you play a game with minimal data usage instead?
That is the kind of question that people on limited mobile plans will be asking themselves, and in many cases the answer will be that they don't ne
Re: Unlimited? (Score:2)
There is a simple technical reason:
A) there is a limited amount of spectrum
B) technologically we need to use a non zero portion of spectrum per connection
C) we are close to capacity today
D). Given a zero cost per byte usage would skyrocket.
Ergo it has to be rationed. T-mobile rations via inconsistent connections and slow performance. Verizon rations via price.
Re: Unlimited? (Score:2)
As far as rural... rural is often shockingly expensive. Mostly no one wants rural customers without heavy subsidy. The subsidies and the desire for a more complete network is why rural gets service.
You are correct though that given low population density a genuinely unlimited (or very high limits) is possible.
Un limited (Score:5, Funny)
I have altered the deal
pray I don't alter it any further
Re:Un limited (Score:5, Informative)
If they let you have unlimited data during the time you had the plan, then they've fulfilled their contractual obligation. There is nothing in the contract which says they have to allow you to stay on that plan in perpetuity. And neither should there be. Otherwise your landlord could force you to continue to pay rent as long as he wanted, even if you wanted to move out.
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With the threshold being dropped from 500GB to 200GB, the latest move will affect customers who weren't using enough data to be caught up in the last round.
Funny way to say more customers will be affected by lowering the threshold.
What about limiting bandwidth? (Score:2)
So.. Are we moving beyond simple throttling and are throwing unprofitable but paying customers over the side because they use too much of their "unlimited" data transfer limits? You idiots, just institute progressive throttles on your "problem" paying customers until they start switching, but DON'T announce it to the world. Either that, or start raising rates for these customers.... Oh wait, you locked them into long term contracts? Live with it, pay them to leave or what have you, but it's YOUR mistake to
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So.. Are we moving beyond simple throttling and are throwing unprofitable but paying customers over the side because they use too much of their "unlimited" data transfer limits? You idiots, just institute progressive throttles on your "problem" paying customers until they start switching, but DON'T announce it to the world. Either that, or start raising rates for these customers.... Oh wait, you locked them into long term contracts? Live with it, pay them to leave or what have you, but it's YOUR mistake to deal with not your customer's...
Why am I not surprised this is Verizon? Hmm?
Short-term wins are all that's in most companies' minds. Of course there are smart ones that think long-term but when there's a battle and a finish line in sight, companies don't think because they want to be the winner. What I'm saying is Verizon didn't have a problem with unlimited because it was the "thing" at the time that was driving customers to other companies. Eventually, the other companies got rid of unlimited data, but didn't throw away (at least not publicly) the ones that survived (unlimited
First they came ... (Score:2)
First they came for 200 GB users, I was not a 200 GB User, so I did nothing.
Then they came for 100 GB users, and I was not a 100 GB User, so I did nothing
Then they came for 50 GB Users, and I was not a 50 GB users, so I did nothing.
Then they came for me, and millions like me, and we all cried like babies.
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...and we all cried like babies.
but not for very long because we hit our data cap
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Except Verizon wants to keep their customers, so they let them keep their Unlimited data plans, as long as they don't actually use them.
If you use enough data where it would be profitable to Verizon for you to upgrade, then eventually, Verizon is going to strong-arm you into upgrading.
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My Google Fi account says that I use about 0.4GB per month on average - but, then, I don't usually stream video except when in WiFi coverage, and I only stream Pandora to the car on weekend trips.
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My wife uses Facebook, and if she plays with posting videos while out of the house, she'll hit 3-4GB a month - 200GB a month, what are these people doing? Serving torrents?
WOW (Score:4, Insightful)
Not to be an apologist for a telecom company, in this case Verizon, but holy crap 500 GB is a lot of 4G/LTE data used in a month, even 200 GB on a single cell device is a lot of data. I personally can't imagine using that much data or spending that much time on a smart device. What uses would other /. residents find for that amount of data, unless it was your only access point, e.g. you had no wireless at home or were on the road as a full time mobile user ?
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Yep I think those all sound like reasons people are pulling 200GB/mo.
But it shouldn't matter, if it is unlimited it's unlimited. But beyond that, it doesn't matter it's like anything else, including wired connections, the switches will load balance anyway, you're only going to be getting this data if the network isn't congested, if it's full, it's full for you too. Download caps make no sense, if I am pulling 100mb /s over my verizon LTE at 3AM what does that matter if I am the only one up. If they had t
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I kind of struggle to see how you'd do it at all.
We often stream two programs at once here, I work from home half the time supporting projects where I have to push ISOs/patches, and I barely hit 200 GB a month.
I can only guess this is a cell device tethered not just to one computer but possibly to a larger network where it is the sole source of Internet connectivity and moving data at nearly the throughput limit of the connection almost continuously.
I think if it were mobile it'd be a stretch to get that 20
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I kind of struggle to see how you'd do it at all.
We often stream two programs at once here, I work from home half the time supporting projects where I have to push ISOs/patches, and I barely hit 200 GB a month.
I can only guess this is a cell device tethered not just to one computer but possibly to a larger network where it is the sole source of Internet connectivity and moving data at nearly the throughput limit of the connection almost continuously.
I think if it were mobile it'd be a stretch to get that 200 GB, since you'd have to factor in periods of mobility where the mobile device itself was the only thing using data.
Agreed. Le me put it this way to say why I agree - I can get 30mbps where I live for $49.99/mo (plus tax/state,fed fees/etc) or I can get 80mpbs using my phone and tethering. At night time when the network volume is down, I can get 110mbps over the air from ATT. So yes, I agree. If I were someone else who needed net access and the local service was unavailable or overpriced, I'd go with what's cheaper.
FTR, I get 16GB/mo with rollover. I don't use more than 10, tops (some months, less than 1). If I sta
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Have you found a compelling way, though, to use your phone with tethering to provide broader network access, though?
I made a half-assed attempt, thinking it would be reasonable on a short-term basis to use it as failover interface with pfsense. The challenge I have is getting the tethering network accessible to my LAN. I rummaged through my collection of access points and couldn't get one that would attach as a bridging peer to the phone's internal access point.
Phone would show a connected hotspot device,
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Have you found a compelling way, though, to use your phone with tethering to provide broader network access, though?
I made a half-assed attempt, thinking it would be reasonable on a short-term basis to use it as failover interface with pfsense. The challenge I have is getting the tethering network accessible to my LAN. I rummaged through my collection of access points and couldn't get one that would attach as a bridging peer to the phone's internal access point.
Phone would show a connected hotspot device, but the APs would never gain an IP address.
Sorry for the delay - These work. [ampedwireless.com] I've done it and it works, but I stopped because, you know, I have no economical or social reason to do it. Just tested. I now just use wired internet->wireless->repeater with said repeater.
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Well, HD (1080) video from Netflix is 2.3 - 3.0 GB per hour. If you assume 3 GB/hour, that translates to 4,000 minutes a month. A season of Star Trek is ~1,000 minutes (Orange is the New Black is clocking in ~800). So, I suppose if you're binging a season a week of some show, you hit that data limit without anything else. That's two hours a day, which is a lot, but not beyond unreasonable to the average American. Especially if you are viewing it while commuting/waiting in airports/some other time when
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Look, don't touch (Score:4, Funny)
Marketing:
We have an amazingly fast network capable of moving TBs of data a second!!! Download a movie in super-ultra-HD while boarding your plane in seconds!!! Buy now!!!
Contracts:
We will charge you 1 kidney per movie you download, and shame you in the public square. It is horrible to everyone else if you actually use the network.
Me:
F U. Worrying about getting reamed for data sucks the fun out of it all. Buys a pay-as-you-go phone and doesn't try to do anything "cool".
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Marketing:
We have an amazingly fast network capable of moving TBs of data a second!!! Download a movie in super-ultra-HD while boarding your plane in seconds!!! Buy now!!!
Contracts:
We will charge you 1 kidney per movie you download, and shame you in the public square. It is horrible to everyone else if you actually use the network.
Me:
F U. Worrying about getting reamed for data sucks the fun out of it all. Buys a pay-as-you-go phone and doesn't try to do anything "cool".
You make a good point, but don't forget the overall equation - they have the amazingly fast network capable of moving TBs in a second because no one is using it. Put 100 users on it watching movies, browsing the web, downloading/backing up/etc and the timing shifts at the controller and utilized air time take that amazingly fast network and make it a jittery really fast network. Wait, don't we already have that? ;)
200GB per month on a cellular connection? (Score:2)
How are people even doing this? Are they running their entire house through hotspot tethering or something? I rarely use that much on my hardline cable modem, the idea of using it over cellular boggles the mind!
Maybe people in rural areas who can't get better Internet are taking advantage of this...but then rural areas don't have high contention for cellular access, so Verizon really shouldn't be dicks to them.
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Our network can't handle this! (Score:3)
Unless we double your monthly bill of course.... then the network can handle it fine.... until... you know... next time it can't......
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Unless we double your monthly bill of course.... then the network can handle it fine.... until... you know... next time it can't......
Amen. Addendum: "..and come on. We are rolling out '5G'. We have to have somewhere to corral the non-contiguous and over-the-limit users."
Unlimited? (Score:2)
No such thing as Unlimited. It's always been limited.
Yeah... (Score:2)
I also hear that Verizon is doing away with contracts all together. This is how they will worm out of the grandfathered unlimited plans. They will say it only applies to contract customers once the contracts are gone so is the unlimited data. Problem solved.
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"This is how they will worm out of the grandfathered unlimited plans."
You speak as if they should offer unlimited forever, even if there are edge users using 500+GB/month. Are you also for rent control so someone who moved into an apartment in Manhattan in 1960 would still only pay $85/month? That doesn't seem fair. There is a reason they are called "grandfathered" customers. And like most grandfathers, they eventually die.
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I'm not suggesting they offer grandfathered plans forever. I am suggesting that they honor the plans for existing customers. This reminds me of the airlines and the frequent flyer miles. Instead of doing away with the program they just devalue the miles and make it more difficult to redeem them. Eventually the miles become essentially worthless.
The TelCo's are doing the same thing with "unlimited" plans. Keep bumping up the price and eventually the remaining grandfathered customers will drop out.
I'm not den
Purge Verizon then. (Score:2)
If Verizon wants to screw customers more, then keep that in mind when they have to reinstate unlimited data (and in a way that is accessible to the masses) to get access to 5G.
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If Verizon wants to screw customers more, then keep that in mind when they have to reinstate unlimited data (and in a way that is accessible to the masses) to get access to 5G.
Agreed. I can see it now:
I open a new phone for Xmas and am trying it for the first time after the "5G" roll-out.
Download SpeedTest... Check speed at my location with my nearby towers' levels to see what I get.
Find out I've already gone over my limit after the test.
New Verizon Math (Score:2)
Would be amusing in the wrongest of ways if they used Verizon Math to set quotas.
For example:
100 Gigabytes -> 0.100 Gigabits
It's not like they've done that before.
Shocking (Score:2)
Wow what a shocker. You mean unlimited doesn't mean unlimited? who would have thunk it?
Sweet! 60% decrease! (Score:2)
We'll be down to a bit under 10GB/mo allowed in 3 years if they follow this 60%/mo decrease pattern.
Credit (Score:2)
That's diabolical! (Score:2)
Wait, by lowering the threshold they'll snare more people? Wow, thanks for pointing that out Captain Obvious!
ITT: tons of VZW shills, some with mod points (Score:2)
Libertarian snark really does no favors here.
Re:Who cares? (Score:5, Interesting)
I know several people who have gone through any number of calisthenics to maintain their "unlimited" data plans on Verizon's network. This generally involves sticking with an updated phone or paying retail to buy a phone outright. Verizon really does have the largest network with the best overall coverage within the United States and there are plenty of places that there really isn't a better option.
For example, Verizon LTE service is often a better and more attractive internet option than marginally-available DSL or laggy, data-capped satellite internet for rural homeowners.
Granted, I'm not using 200GB/month through my phone either, but I certainly do recognize that this is a real problem for a lot of people, especially who aren't necessarily close to any other sort of fat data pipe.
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They've presented zero evidence that the network is suffering reliability...their commercials seem to indicate it's rock solid. The 'best' even.
This isn't costing them a viable economic business....they are still raking in profits hand over fist.
This is nothing but a pure money grab by violating their own terms.
Nobody would argue with throttling on specific towers WHEN congestion arises. It's funny how that isn't their so
Re:Who cares? (Score:4)
I would assume that the contracts are for a specific duration. I would also assume that the right to vary the contract is written into the contract.
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As far as assumptions, they are irrelevant. If a company signs a contract, they should have to honor it.
Specifically if they said 'unlimited' date.
I will of course be willing to trade unlimited cell contracts for the revocation of ISP's apparently 'unlimited' life franchise agreements. It's a 2 way street...
Re:Who cares? (Score:4)
Not in the US so I haven't seen your contracts. But my Telstra contracts all have an end date written in them. They are all 2 years from the date of the contract which then goes to month by month terminatable by either party on 1 months notice. So it does keep rolling for ever, but the locked down period is 2 years.
I agree that a company should have to abide by the terms of their contract. But as I said I would be amazed if they haven't reserved the right to vary the contract. Every contract I have has that escape clause.
Re:Who cares? (Score:4, Insightful)
Most contracts used to have a defined 1-2 year period, which rolled over to a month-to-month contract at the end of the 1-2 year period. When in the month-to-month time, either side can cancel. I think it is more common for all new wireless service contracts to be month-to-month now.
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Verizon did 2 year contracts when you got a new subsidized phone. After that contract term, it went to a month-to-month basis and either party could cancel on a month's notice. You seem to think that there was an inequitable relationship where the customer could end the contract when they wanted, but the provider couldn't. Your belief is incorrect.
"As far as assumptions, they a
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Even without a duration, pretty much any contract of this style (where one party has like 99.9% of the negotiating power) contains language to the effect that the company can unilaterally change the contract at any time and just like the original contract "negotiation," your only options are to bail completely or bend over with very close to zero middle ground.
Most of the time they'll require themselves to at least give advance notice (typically 30 days.) Of course, depending on the company and how sneaky
Re:Who cares? (Score:5, Insightful)
If a company signs a contract...they shouldn't be held to that contract?
Any unlimited contract has long expired and gone to a month to month plan, which the only reason Verizon didn't force everyone to change was in order to keep them as a customer.
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Among US Cell carriers, Sprint and some of its associated MVNOs are still offering fully unlimited data plans. It's definitely possible to get Unlimited LTE service in the USA, just not from Verizon, ATT or Tmobile.
Of course, then you're going to be on Sprint's weirdo CDMA network, but if you're in a a reasonably urban area, it's probably fine.
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That's just one of the things Sprint has to do to get/keep some customers, because their network is Inferior to any of the others'. You can bet your arse that if Sprint improved their network to the level of T-Mobile, ATT, or Verizon, their Unlimited offerings would disappear in short order.
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I'm guessing like many others, the GP is actually on a longer contract that they've managed to keep going by getting new phones before their contract expired. If this is the case, the change in contract would allow them to keep their phone without having to buy themselves out of it.
Re: Who cares? (Score:2)
Do you have a contact for the month or forever? Just like they can increase the price, they can end their current plan. You are not forced to continue to pay if you don't like the new terms.
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Contracts have expiration dates.
Oh they sign a contract (Score:2)
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If a company signs a contract...they shouldn't be held to that contract?
Yup, just like if you sign a contract to work for an employer for a year for $50k, you should be held to that contract: $50k a year forever, and you can never leave.
Right?
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First off Verizon's model is to take long term fixed costs and break them out as per byte costs. If you aren't willing to incur the full costs for the fixed cost model, for example 20 year contracts and being charged for heavy static usage you don't get to complain about the fact they aren't charging you based on other aspects of the fixed cost model like most bytes incur almost 0 cost to Verizon. You don't get to mix models to your advantage.
Nobody would argue with throttling on specific towers WHEN con
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They had to lobotomize the frogs to get them to stay in the water, humans aren't as smart.
Compu$erve loves you. (Score:2)
Sounds like you never knew of the restrictiveness of the Compuserve era.
Re: This is a great time... (Score:2)
Curious, which cellphone carriers are looking for users that consume 7-10 Gig of data per day?
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Or... Perhaps keep the same one but convert to a limited plan and be prepared to pay for overage charges...
Or . . . even better idea . . . stop doing stupid shit like watching movies and TV shows 13 hours a day on your fucking phone.
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Re: This is a great time... (Score:3)
If you are consuming 7-10 Gig/day, every day of every month watching your "favorite series, and the occasional movie" on your cell phones you are most definitely NOT an average cellphone user. Myself, I've never streamed a feature-length movie on my cellphone, and I suspect that is true for many/most cellphon
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It wouldn't be difficult to use that much data with HD streaming on a 90+ minute commute each way on public transit. Maybe that's not an average use case, but I wouldn't call it excessive.
Re: This is a great time... (Score:2)
Verizon disables the hot-spot feature for users on unlimited plans. Activating it starts separate metering for it under a capped plan. Was the case for my iPhone 4, still the case for my iPhone 7 Plus (recent upgrade, retained plan).
Of course, Verizon isn't offering credit for people who underuse their plans.
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How does this work? NAT-detection? Or is the phone notifying Verizon that it's running a hotspot?
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So the phone is 'in on the act', huh? Do all phones do this?
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And how do you enforce, that my phone uses this apn?
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Actually they do now. You get data carryover with their new plans.
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The context changed and this changed the meaning of what they were selling. At the time of EVDO it was almost impossible to use 1GB/mo. You had phones with very limited internet features using a terrible data network. The use case was infrequent internet for short bursts. From there there were use cases like Blackberry which had all sorts of compression features to limit data usage....
Today's phones have rich applications which can consume almost unlimited data and the network is quite good.
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The "unlimited" plans were not unlimited in duration. They were just letting people ride along with old plans for reasons of customer satisfaction. Clearly they have changed their view, but that doesn't mean anyone is getting screwed - they held up their end of the bargain and some.
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Are you arguing that if a company offers an "unlimited" plan that it should be available forever without any changes? Would it be ok if they allowed people to stay on the unlimited but only if they connect via 3G or whatever service was available when they signed up?
And to the person that said it was time to find a new service, I'm sure Verizon would love those people using 200-500GB/month to go elsewhere.
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Did you mean to reply to the parent? I'm arguing the exact opposite, that Verizon already fulfilled their side of the contract. The high usage people should congratulate themselves for finding a bargain while it lasted.
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I'm not certain will see another surge like we just went through but if we do then yes most likely the context will have changed and today's plans will contain clauses that in the new context don't make sense.
That's simply not true. The relationship be
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If they intended it to be 100 GB/month, why did they sell it as unlimited?
Roping in customers and competing with sales words that other companies were using.
Long-term fallout is that they have customers leaving and their bandwidth availability decreasing because of increased utilization. Wait, the other companies are the same!
I imaging the model like breathing - Verizon can suck up a bunch of customers but eventually will have to accommodate for the saturation; customers get pissed and leave to go to another company. Other companies then breathe them in with sales tactics and s
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There have been so many other articles on here showing that there is more than enough 4G/LTE bandwith and we are no where near approaching capacity in most urban areas. This has nothing to do with being a good netizen and more to do with money.