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Throttling data???

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jhrIII

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Quoted from CNN:

"Both carriers' policies claim to affect only the top 5% of data users. However, Verizon's approach is more draconian: Verizon will throttle a customer's data speed not just for the current billing cycle, but for the following month, too".

Basically, if you are a "grandfathered" unlimited user and (heaven forbid), use a heavy amount of that "unlimited" data, they are going to slow your data speeds for that month as well as the next. What D-bags. They should have never offered unlimited, only to come back and restrict it. Sounds quite "limited" to me.
 
People can't really complain about this. It will only affect users who are using their phone to tether which is a service that VZW offers. They can do this if they want. The more people who consume that much bandwidth just make it harder for VZW to maintain their network.
 
IIRC verizon throttles after 5gbs, I have passed that a few times without tethering, PANDORA RADIO, or any streazming audio service for that matter. Or even just heavy browsing and downloads. But usually i still dont pass 5gigs and top out on average around 4 even when i use pandora a good bit while on the road. But this is OLD news and theyve been doing it for a while now.
 
I guess I just don't use my phone that much. I stopped streaming and started using Spotify in offline mode. Online when I forgot to add a song to my offline playlists. If I do a ton of downloading and I'm near WiFi I connect to that, it's faster anyway.

It surprises me how much data people will use on their phone.
 
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