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Verizon Wireless Confirms Plans to Throttle Heaviest Users

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Whats a nice way to say this...

DiamondPro

Feb 3, 2011, 2:16 PM
Verizon sucks! They are throttling and compressing data. This just shows how limited verizons resources are they have to slow your service for months so they can keep up wtf! 👿
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Overmann

Feb 3, 2011, 2:23 PM
Throttling isn't as bad as crafty hard disconnects like Comcast does.

T-Mobile does the same thing, and they have you less data (5GB instead of 10) before capping it.

VZW is apparently only doing this if the tower is saturated with bandwidth, so if you live in an area with just a few smartphone users, you may not see this data cap throttle. It will be more prevalent in the city.

That and it's rare that someone consistently breaks 10GB on a smartphone. That's less than 5% of the smartphone users on Verizon.
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CellStudent

Feb 3, 2011, 2:52 PM
"This has been a test of the Emergency Cellular Service alert system. If you regularly consume more than 10 GB per month of cellular data, please report to your nearest Sprint Wireless retail location for activation on an unlimited account immediately. Do not delay, your (short-term) financial future may depend on it.

"Had this been an actual Cellular Service Emergency, this alert would have been followed with instructions to visit the nearest Verizon Wireless retail location to procure a communications system that actually works, and works well, nationwide.

"We now return you to your regularly scheduled program: DiamondTroll. Thank you for your diligence."
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justfinethanku

Feb 3, 2011, 3:16 PM
YES!
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VZW611LA

Feb 3, 2011, 3:42 PM
Sprint? Hahahaha!
Sprint is starting to have problems with slow data and text coming in late. They will be next. CEO even said.
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pickles

Feb 3, 2011, 3:50 PM
*whoosh* is the sound a post makes when it goes straight over a vzw fanbois head. rofl@cellstudent
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AndroidRules

Feb 3, 2011, 5:42 PM
VZW611LA said:
Sprint? Hahahaha!
Sprint is starting to have problems with slow data and text coming in late. They will be next. CEO even said.


lol I agree. Sprint is toast and Clear wants their money. That $hitty 2.5ghz WiMAX signal couldn't even penetrate though a plastic bag
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Versed

Feb 6, 2011, 1:37 PM
AndroidRules said:


lol I agree. Sprint is toast and Clear wants their money. That $hitty 2.5ghz WiMAX signal couldn't even penetrate though a plastic bag


Dude, its a paper bag, god is in the specifics.
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gloopey1

Feb 3, 2011, 5:41 PM
...and they want their crappy Toyotas and Verizon network back!

Move on with the times buddy-- Verizon's network is outage central these days.
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CellStudent

Feb 3, 2011, 6:29 PM
Do you really think any of that was meant to be even the slightest bit realistic?

I guess the satire that's true hurts the most.

As for the outages, I don't keep statistics personally, but having acute outages that get resolved pretty quickly is a far better state to be in than wondering whether or not your call is going to drop every 4 to 6 minutes. Having stuff that either works or doesn't work is a lot easier to deal with than stuff that works 85% of the time.
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Theuninformed

Feb 4, 2011, 1:07 PM
Can you provide hard facts showing the unreliability of the Verizon Wireless network, on average, compared to the other large cell corporations?

I would find this very interesting to see. None of the information I've seen or found says that Verizon is "outage central".
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Azeron

Feb 4, 2011, 4:47 PM
Who needs facts when one can just make stuff up?
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HawkeyeOC

Feb 4, 2011, 5:26 PM
Azeron said:
Who needs facts when one can just make stuff up?


Please provide us with hard facts to back up your statement please? 🤣
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Versed

Feb 6, 2011, 1:39 PM
And lets be honest, every, every, every carrier has had downtime issues with data.
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HawkeyeOC

Feb 4, 2011, 5:21 PM
CellStudent said:
"We now return you to your regularly scheduled program: DiamondTroll. Thank you for your diligence."


Best response ever to an issue that never seems to go away 🤣 🤣 🤣
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Menno

Feb 3, 2011, 3:23 PM
Streamed data on your phone is compressed to optimize it for mobile presentation. You can see this if you access your programming menu on your device and check for the media streaming proxy.

Clear (wimax) will also throttle heavy usage data.
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