Verizon Wireless Confirms Plans to Throttle Heaviest Users
Queation for VZW, Do You Hate Your Customers?
Now this, "throttle the users" seriously just how close can you say that you are going to "choke the crap" out of your customers without actually saying it?
I swear if your executives thought to put alcoholic chain smoking bi polar monkeys that threw their own poop at existing customers as they walked into the store to your corporate retail stores. I'd think you would go for it as that idea is on the same level as throttleing your customers.
Come Feb 10 your network is going to be placed under its maximum de...
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As for you, you're either are a die hard VZW customer or you're a VZW employee... just curious which is it?
In a nutshell this means that for any reason a wireless carrier can limit, change or cancel your service if you "abuse" their network, impact other subscribers or you cease to be profitable based on your plan cost and how you are utilizing the services ie data, roaming , etc.
Most cases they will warn you in a formal letter then most likely if it continues after your play nice warning they will send you a letter advising you that they can no longer meet your needs and cancel your services effective the end of the billing cycle. They may or may not charge you the applicable termination fee or fees.
BTW most carriers cover themselves with a you c...
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Yes they can term you after a warning, they can't hit you up for the ETF. But the few this happens to, is well worth their loss. Sprint did this in the past.
If you want unlimited data, you either need to accept throttling or higher fees across the board to feed that 5%. If you want cheaper plans and unthrottled data, you're talking tiered plans. Period, end of story.
And don't bring up Sprint/Clear. They actually need to turn a profit before their method is viable (and Both already practice throttling)
Secondly.. if you're knocking them for developing LTE... just Shut up. You have no idea wha...
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Do not mistake my cynicism or jocularity towards VZW's business and billing model as unitelegent banter.
Of course the throttleing applies to new acts and upgrades only anything else would be a material change to the service agreement and would allow all affected subscribers to bolt on their contracts without penalty of course the change has to be subscriber initiated. But this is the eventual direction the VZW is heading for all subscribers.
LTE is fast, no argument there! But it is inconsistent and unreliable. Spikes and irregularities in signal will push users right over the edge into overages wi...
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Heck, I Like sprint, but I don't get to say it that often because I don't like being associated with idiots like Diamondpro, and others think I'm some raving Verizon fanboy because I dare to not hate everything they do.
Throttling wouldn't be a material change since Verizon never promised (one way or the other) what they would do with high usage users. You said it yourself, they have a...
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But even if they do, their entire 4G network is being built out by Clearwire, a company that's trying to sell off spectrum to stay solvent, and even that might not be enough.
Wimax get's prohibitively expensive the lower the population density is, or the harder the terrain is. This means that the network will become more expensive to built out as time goes on, and it's already more expensive than LTE is.
And as an aside, Wimax is not stable, at all. the spectrum they chose (which allows for faster max speeds) has poor building penetration, distance/weather issues, etc. It's too ear...
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Please be advised that all carriers do have back office media and net review teams that monitor blogs, post, chats about the wireless industry. Their purpose for doing this is to measure public reaction to press releases and act as trolls for damage cotrol. To seek out users that may be internal employees that may be leaking proprietary sensitive information.
Maybe you should slow down on downloading pr0n on Bittorrent on your phone so much. Then you won't push that 10GB threshold so easy. Seriously, unless you are streaming video all day or constantly downloading large files, it's not that easy to hit 10GB on your phone.
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