Verizon wireless unlimited data use

[Skylark]

News from Verizon wireless data use

Verizon Data Use

Optimization Plan

[docj]

jrp wrote:
Joel, its a variable factor determined by their software at each tower and constantly adjusted based on available bandwidth & number of users. Expect it to be at least 10% for those that throttling applies to, when its required.

If you mean that the effective throughput will be at least 10% of the available bandwidth then IMO this isn't much of a threat to my way of life. As long as you are willing to live with low-moderate video resolution I've successfully streamed on 3G connections with 1-2Mbps. So having VZW occasionally drop me back to those levels wouldn't be such a catastrophe.

[jrp]

Joel, its a variable factor determined by their software at each tower and constantly adjusted based on available bandwidth & number of users. Expect it to be at least 10% for those that throttling applies to, when its required.

[oldtrojan66]

It seems to me that the target audience is thinning out at best. I was told that no "unlimited" data plans are currently available. Only the older plans that were grandfathered in to new plans have this feature. I was also told that a bonus was given to sales people who talk renewal customers out of their unlimited plans for some over-hyped share everything plan. Not sure I really even like Verizon any more, but truth is, I suspect all companies have similar skeletons in their closets.

[docj]

But what's not known is what does throttling mean, speed-wise, for a 4G connection. If the connection has been running at >10Mbps there's a big difference between throttling at 10% (~1 Mbps) or at 1% (~100kbps). Most of the time I could live with a 1Mbps connection; you can even stream SD video on that. Anything less would be an issue for me, at least.

[jrp]

The news here, is that now their throttling will be extended to 4G. Previously it was only applied to 3G connections.

[MrWizard]

Nothing new here, the 5% thing has been around for quite sometime