AT&T Planning to Crackdown On Bandwidth Hogs
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Nothing new if you're a Sprint, Verizon, or T-Mo User...
Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless already do this. You have a soft cap of around 5GB on phones (this is a hard cap on data cards). If you're consistently downloading over that your account gets flagged for excessive use.
From my Sprint contract:
Sprint: "reserves the right to limit throughput speeds or amount of data transferred and to deny, terminate, modify, or suspend service"
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It's not easy to break 5 GB on a mobile phone, unless you are downloading a whole DVD image on a Windows Phone that has at least an 8 GB memory card installed.
Verizon's fine print says 200 kbps for you if you break 5GB on an Unlimited, although I haven't seen that happen before TBH.
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Unlimited text will never be unprofitable. Company's do not get charged for text usage, its just they feel to charge the consumer for the text message to make profit. So as long as they make you pay for one text message, its a profit. 😉
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Exactly SMS and MMS cost them NOTHING! Just pure cake. Why the lleh the FCC isn't investigating the raising of the PPU messaging increases I will never understand.
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Why should the government step in and tell a company what it can charge for providing a service? Last I checked the companies were private companies.
I guess next we'll expect the government to step in because little Johnny raised the cost of lemonade at his stand. Why would they let him charge $1.00 per cup, it only cost him $0.50 to make it!
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It's called price gauging, the oil companies were investigated for it.
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I have never heard of this with Verizon. Can you provide proof please?
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hes going based on data cards, not smartphones. its cool, we can all breathe 🤣
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Data Cards have a hard cap. I'm referring very specifically to the soft cap. Please read my post.
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