Verizon Wireless Throttling Unlimited 4G Data Hogs

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I'm at 11.8 GB this cycle. I use my iphone on my runs and have mapmyrun and pandora running for the entire hour plus I run or bike. It adds up quick. I don't have verizon though. Not having unlimited data is why I won't switch to them. It's just to costly to get 10+GB of data through them.
 
I'm with Verizon and I pay by the GB so this seems fair to me. Wish I would have been with Verizon and signed up for the unlimited plan back then...
 
I'm one of the few still holding on to my unlimited. This is just another way to make more money, plain and simple. Rather than invest into their network, they'd rather cut your service, charge you more, and make it seem like they're doing you a favor. It's absolutely ridiculous that we're letting the service providers get away with this. It's not just the phone providers either, comcast and the likes putting datacaps in place. What a joke.
 
just wait for net neutrality to go away, it's funny that the 5% is what bring their network to its knees and they just happen to be the ones not paying enough. I bet you can pay for 1Tb of bandwith no problems so long you are paying.
 
So how is this new policy different from the old one? If there's limited bandwidth in a given area, did Unlimited users get priority over Tiered users if the network was congested?
 
Wow, its like these cellphone carriers are competing to see who could piss off their customers the fastest just to see who would remain loyal.

First they make us pay for data on a smartphone even if we do not use their data. (free WIFI at work, your own WIFI at home and if your a Cable subscriber there are free WIFI hotspots throughout the cities.)

Now they want to throttle those with unlimited data?

How about fair data rates!!! Why is it a company can charge $30 for a 3GB monthly data plan but at the same time charge $20 for 300MB a month data plan. If you convert the numbers, its 3072MB for $30 or 300MB for $20. An extra $10 should not give you 2772MB of extra data!!!
 
If I had a unlimited data plan I would probably use it a lot, I would download all kinds of stuff, I would stream. However since my plan is only 500mb I just use it for browsing and chatting. Which really is plenty especially if you go from wifi to wifi. Because of my low data usage I only pay € 8 a month on sim only which really is not that bad.
 
I still have unlimited. On my Nexus I'd pull about 5gig monthly. I upgraded my other line to a G3 and transferred it to my unlimited line. Holy crap. With XLTE giving me 50M down in my house and 20 + out and about..I burn through data. I've used 5gig this week alone.
 
We need more competition in the space. Tmobile and Sprint need to merge to have the size to fight ATT and Verizon. Google and/or foreign providers should be let in. Etc...
 
I pull 12-16GB monthly on my Galaxy Note 3 on legacy unlimited plan. I'm in IT and pull data from numerous medical company FTPs as well as our own FTP in addition to carrying around periodic copies of our own FTP. Most of the offices I go to have internet speed that is significantly slower than my phone (5-7mbps average versus 40-75mbps on my phone) and it's faster to pull the data through there, copy it to a flash drive via OTG cable and plug it in.

I have a seperate business iPhone and I don't use it for anything but calls because we have 12 users on a 10GB limit which is the highest they will go for us.
 
"Heavy traffic". How the heck can anyone load up a tower to the point of needing to throttle when you can hit your whopping, overpriced, $40, 4GB monthly data cap in less than an hour at 4G LTE speeds? The whole data-cap/throttling is non-sense to squeeze out overpriced underwhelming data packages. Sorry kids, we used up all the Internet today.
 
How is this not illegal? Its bias, discriminatory and unjust. Verizon is literally discriminating against unlimited data users. SUPER ILLEGAL!

Verizon is claiming that they don't have to wire NJ with a Fiber solution because their Wireless network is an alternative to DSL and Cable. How can they justify any of the following statements. A teired data plan with a THROTTLE CAP to replace a cable or dsl installment??

This should be a Class action lawsuit. This is just another ploy by verizon to dupe customers and get the upper hand. They make RECORD Profits year after year and we are talking like 30+Billion a year in profits.

Yet they dont upgrade their networks, takes them half a year and makes netflix pay for hardware into their servers. Its like how, HOW is this company still around with all the SHADY business practices and deception! Let me guess, too big to fail, right?
 
I'm one of the few still holding on to my unlimited. This is just another way to make more money, plain and simple. Rather than invest into their network, they'd rather cut your service, charge you more, and make it seem like they're doing you a favor. It's absolutely ridiculous that we're letting the service providers get away with this. It's not just the phone providers either, comcast and the likes putting datacaps in place. What a joke.
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Why would they invest in their infrastructure when the infrastructure is more than sufficient if data hogs are throttled? You do realize that data is not free and network towers do not grow on trees. Every byte of data uses a quantifiable amount of energy and energy cost money. So are you saying they should just continue to give people more bandwidth and lose money?
 
just wait for net neutrality to go away, it's funny that the 5% is what bring their network to its knees and they just happen to be the ones not paying enough. I bet you can pay for 1Tb of bandwith no problems so long you are paying.
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Net neutrality and throttling bandwidth hogs are two unrelated topics.
 
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I go through 8 GB in a month easilly, just from Pandora, Netflix, and Hulu when I am jogging and/or at the gym.
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Why are you jogging and watching movies at the same time? If it is a visual pleasure problem, then please consider jogging outside.


Wow, its like these cellphone carriers are competing to see who could piss off their customers the fastest just to see who would remain loyal.

First they make us pay for data on a smartphone even if we do not use their data. (free WIFI at work, your own WIFI at home and if your a Cable subscriber there are free WIFI hotspots throughout the cities.)

Now they want to throttle those with unlimited data?

How about fair data rates!!! Why is it a company can charge $30 for a 3GB monthly data plan but at the same time charge $20 for 300MB a month data plan. If you convert the numbers, its 3072MB for $30 or 300MB for $20. An extra $10 should not give you 2772MB of extra data!!!
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I do not see a problem with charging per gigabyte. As I said earlier, data uses a quantifiable amount of energy and energy cost money. Do you think paying per kW/h at your home is unfair? Do you think paying per gallon of gas for your car is unfair? Do you think paying per gallon of water you use at home is unfair? Why should bandwidth be any different? It uses energy, so you should pay per unit of energy used.

I do agree that their data rate prices are ridiculous. However, have you ever considered that their prices are ridiculous because you are footing the bill for high bandwidth users?
 
They make RECORD Profits year after year and we are talking like 30+Billion a year in profits.
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Some people feel entitled to everything. Why not start your own telecom business if you don't like how much another company makes, then give all your profits away,.

I've never heard so much entitlement complaining in recent years over the telecom industry and what THEY choose to provide YOU. People who are whining about throttle caps and getting charged too much for data use on THEIR network probably need to unplug from virtual society more and get out and enjoy the real world like they used to BEFORE this tech existed.
 
Lets not pretend that the telecom industry is in any way a representation of a free market. It is a market full of collusion and useless regulations to prevent any real competition. From what I can see, the telecom industry is very much like the insurance industry; only allow customers who never use the service to pay in for "service".

Anecdotally, most people never use more than 500 MB a month. Being in the top 5% is hardly a challenge for anyone who legitimately uses the service they pay for. With that said, I think people who use 5-10 GB of data would feel less outraged if the market as a whole had a fair price structure, but it doesn't, so forget about believing terms like "data-hog" are illegitimate or thinking that we should be paying more. Rather, the people who only use a measly 500 MB a month should be outraged they pay the prices they do!
 
YAY throttle those bandwidth hogs! You think Verizon cares about the 5% data hogs, NOPE and I don't care about them either. Make way for customers like me who actually pay for what we use.
This is similar to an issue we had with water here. You used to have unlimited supply of water for your lawn and didn't have to pay for how much you used. I would see people leave their hoses on just running water down the gutter. I would see people running their sprinklers in the middle of 90 degree weather, it was just ridiculous and no one cared how much water they used because they didn't pay for it.
Well things changed and they started charging for how much water you used and it was amazing how people would conserve. Yards stopped looking like rain forests and actually started looking more like the desert we live in...
 
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