Verizon Plans to Throttle Its Heaviest Data Users
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Verizon Plans to Throttle Its Heaviest Data Users
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Re: Verizon Plans to Throttle Its Heaviest Data Users
#2I wonder what kind of activities constitute the top 5% of data users? Anyone know of data usage stats and associated activities?
Re: Verizon Plans to Throttle Its Heaviest Data Users
#3"may reduce your data throughput speeds periodically for the remainder of your then current and immediately following billing cycle to ensure high quality network performance for other users at locations and times of peak demand."
"Verizon says it will only do this if you fall in the top 5% of the company's data users"
To me this sounds fair to users and good for business. I'm part of the 95% and would prefer to do business with a company that puts my needs ahead of the 5% heaviest users.
Re: Verizon Plans to Throttle Its Heaviest Data Users
#4I think the worse news is the transcoding proxies they are announcing, not-so-transparently lowering the quality of any JPEG and MPEG files you download. This is why the Internet needs end-to-end encryption on by default.
Re: Verizon Plans to Throttle Its Heaviest Data Users
#5Talking to a co-worker, who used to work in customer service at a different US wireless carrier, this is common practice. His example was customers who use terabytes of data a month would get throttled for the remainder of the period, similar to what Verizon's proposing.
It'd be interesting to know how much data the top 5% of users use.
Re: Verizon Plans to Throttle Its Heaviest Data Users
#6Oh Canada!
Re: Verizon Plans to Throttle Its Heaviest Data Users
#7"may reduce your data throughput speeds periodically for the remainder of your then current and immediately following billing cycle to ensure high quality network performance for other users at locations and times of peak demand." "Verizon says it will only do this if you fall in the top 5% of the company's data users" To me this sounds fair to users and good for business. I'm part of the 95% and would prefer to do b…
Good for business?
Yeah, and when those 5% of users quit the service, you can get rid of the next 5%. Keep repeating until you have no customers.
Re: Verizon Plans to Throttle Its Heaviest Data Users
#8Oh good, Verizon Wireless. I have other reasonable choices than Verizon Wireless.
Re: Verizon Plans to Throttle Its Heaviest Data Users
#9The fact that they're going to continue throttling through two billing periods modifies this from "network management" to "unjustifiably punitive conduct".
Re: Verizon Plans to Throttle Its Heaviest Data Users
#10Here is the problem with the message..
On Mobile Networks its not bandwidth usage that impacts other users..
its heavy bandwidth usage on a network of cells that are overloaded. So basically this is move by Verizon to manage network growth by lying to the consumer.
Now if Verizon said we are throttling heavy usage in the Chicago metro area than they are in fact not lying to the consumer.
Its a plain BS move