Verizon Defends Throttling Plan
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No such speed promises
This whole idea of data speeds comes from advertising. When Verizon talks about data speeds of up to 50mbps, which anyone who knows phones knows that such speed can't be handled by a phone. You really only get something like 15 mbps to actually work with.
I currently work in the wireless industry for an indirect retailer. In all the years I've worked, never onece has any verizon contract promised any speed. Not when unlimited was still being offered years ago, not today with tiered data.
For those who want to talk about promises, they should read before they spew out their anti-corperate diatribes. No wireless company promises ...
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Verizon "required" me to upgrade my phones from the ones that I had when they acquired Alltel. I told them that as they were the ones making me change phones, I would walk if I could not keep my un...
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Keep your Unlimited and upgrade with a contract
Basically what you need is at least ONE line on the account that DOES NOT have unlimited data.
Verizon allows you to do alternate upgrades, or using someone else's upgrade for yourself. That plays a key role to this. Basically what you do when your line with unlimited data (Line A) is eligible for an upgrade, you take that upgrade and use it as an alternate to the line that doesn't have unlimited data (Line B). Then you do a device change on Line B back to its old device (usually a flip phone or someone on the account that has a limited data amount such as 2 G...
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Throttling vs. Net Neutrality
You can tell Wheeler came from the cable companies (he was a Comcast lobbyist), not the wireless industry.
Net neutrality is a good thing. Wheeler's proposed Net Neutrality legislation was exactly the opposite of Net Neutrality and effectively killed it. He's hardly "ok" with ...
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