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Throttling! Coming soon to a VM (USA) phone near you
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agentc13
Daleks Über Alles
Well, I got the email today as well. They must be sending it out to everyone because I get nowhere close to 1gb, let alone 2.5gb. They probably want to make sure that every customer knows so they don't get a ton of complaints about not notifying people when it happens.
Exactly.
sharpe351
Well-Known Member
I got a text from VM today about throttling on anything above 2.5Gigs of usage. I don't think I will be affected by this change, due to the fact that I rarely go over 1 gig of data. The most I've hit is 1.8 gig and that was running Pandora nearly all the time at work.
Dr. Destructo
Newbie
I received my e-mail notification today... it is what it is.
Topic merged with existing discussion as it's a Virgin Mobile rather than device-specific issue.
benslgdroid
rockstar
I got the email too saying it will likely not effect me
hiwatt
Android Enthusiast
Wouldn't you go f'in blind using and looking at all that data? I know plenty of other Android users with fancier phones with bigger displays and even if I had say, a Photon, I wouldn't sit around watching netflix on it. Come on. I have no issues with this policy because I have HOME INTERNET SERVICE and I like my 20/20 vision. I use the phone for data a lot and still never even come close to 2.5GB. And I feel like the 900-1.3 down speed I reliably get is more than fair (and a far cry from the speeds I got with TMobile's Black Berry service). As a Scotsman once said: "Ya dun hafta cry aboot it!"
sushifor5
Android Enthusiast
Did anyone else get a text/email from VM describing the new "caps" they are placing on broadband usage? I got a message saying that when we hit 2.5mb usage (something like that), they will slow our speeds down to 246k for the rest of our plan month...
I guess "unlimited" isn't anymore?
I guess "unlimited" isn't anymore?
Leslie Ann
Android Expert
It's not a cap, it's a throttle.
Cap means, that's all you get, done.
Throttle means they just slow you down once you hit a a certain amount. It''s still unlimited, just slower once you hit that mark.
Cap means, that's all you get, done.
Throttle means they just slow you down once you hit a a certain amount. It''s still unlimited, just slower once you hit that mark.
Atma
Extreme Android User
AndyOpie150
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Topic merged with existing discussion as it's a Virgin Mobile rather than device-specific issue.
hiwatt
Android Enthusiast
There. Fixed
LMAO. There are so many merged threads in here that this topic now makes exactly as much sense as it should.
To recap:
This should not come as a surprise to anyone; VM has been throwing this around since last summer, if not earlier.
If it does come as a surprise to you, VM has now given you 2 months advance warning so you can decide what you're going to do.
If you're leaving VM, all the best to you.
If you're not leaving VM, stop complaining, don't tether (steal), don't watch 50,000 movies/videos, or whatever the heck else people are doing that uses so much data, and the throttling won't affect you.
The 3% of VM customers who abused this very reasonable and quite generous plan they offered up to this point are how we got here.
/thread? (probably not)
Petrah
Psychotic Female
Thirded.
In the near future, there will be no unlimited data on any carrier. You will have to purchase the gigs you want. Sure we can blame the data hogs out there but more and more people are going to be using more and more bandwidth as we continue into the future.
In this always connected world were people surf the web for hrs a day, stream radio for 2-8 hrs, watch and even download HD videos it is only a matter of time before unlimited goes the way of the dodo bird.
VM has given me enough time to download some kind of usage app to see what I am using. Personally, I might stream radio for a few hrs a day, but Im not a heavy video watcher, so I think this will not affect me. If it does, I will curtail my usage since $25/mo is a remarkable bargain imo. Most of my friends and colleagues are paying $60-100/mo.
MacFett
Android Expert
They are not putting in data caps, they are throttling data after 2.5gb as has been said in the thread at least once. A cap would mean if you hit 2.5gb you are done for the month. Throttle just means the speed of your connection will be slowed.
I go over 2.5 gigs from movies and music that I listen to when I'm not at home. I have home Internet. I live in New York and commute via train so I stream or download for the times when I'm out and about.
musiciansapp
Member
I got an e-mail from VM saying I can only use now 2.5GB a day. If I use that up in a day I'll get a text message from VM saying I've gone over my limit for the day and my download speed will not be the same. Based on VM's records on my daily usage I will be affected. ARG what about the "Unlimited" plan!?!?! I have a limited internet on my home computer so I use my phone for extra internet access. Is there anything that can be done? 
350X
Android Expert
yes and it should roll forward, so if you only use 1 gig one month, you can use 4 gigs the next month before you get throttled and so fourth. and you can roll it forward for up to 1 year then it starts all over.
frdmspoplr
Well-Known Member
You get 2.5 gb per month at full 3G speeds, then if you hit that, they'll throttle your speed to 256 kbps or lower until your new month starts. I rarely get 256 kbps anyway, so it won't affect me much. They probably put this on place because of people tethering and abusing the system.