Good news for Verizon unlimited plan holders....

Bill.Satellite wrote:
Doesn't that just mean they will cancel the unlimited plans as time moves forward instead?

No, they have already tried that and the federal courts have ruled against them as well as the FCC. The throttling didn't start till after Verizon lost in court. It was a coercion tactic to get unlimited plan users to switch to a metered more expensive plan.

One more note of interest........ My company has service through AT&T. We have UNLIMITED WORLDWIDE DATA as a feature for $54/mo on our phones. However, if 5gb is exceeded, we are throttled, but not cut off.

Well, they will do everything possible to try and pry people away from those plans. I believe there are no current options for upgrading handsets with discounts unless you surrender the unlimited plan for one of the newer offerings. Same with AT&T by the way.

They keep saying that only a very small percentage of users exceed 5gb per month, so I'm not sure what the problem really is. I suppose the goal is simply to try and mimimize the amount of video streaming that users are doing over cellular, which really chews up bandwidth.

Bill.Satellite wrote:
Doesn't that just mean they will cancel the unlimited plans as time moves forward instead?

Well! No soup for me.

Since 2011, Verizon has throttled 3G users who have unlimited data plans when they connect to congested cell sites if they fall within the top five percent of data users. That's 4.7GB or more per month.

Verizon will presumably continue throttling 3G users. There is "no change" in the 3G policy, a Verizon spokesperson told Ars.

Doesn't that just mean they will cancel the unlimited plans as time moves forward instead?

I dumped Verizon couple years ago because their data plan sucked.

I hoped the FCC would get involved in this... way to go FCC. Thank you.

I don't think there was any pressure. The FCC reminded Verizon that under the license for LTE, they were limited to what they could do and throttling the data violated one of those limitation. Just my thought on the matter.