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RE: Verizon Business - LTE?
From: Eric Wieling <EWieling () nyigc com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:37:05 -0400
As I understand it, data on a smartphone is "unlimited", but data on a non-phone device (called Broadband Access) is capped at 5GB. At one time if you went over 5GB on a "broadband access" account they simply terminated your account. This happened to me. Then a class action lawsuit happened. I got a check from VZ and they stopped terminating people for going over 5GB. Instead, they charged some huge overages fees. IIRC if you used a total of 10 GB (5GB over your allowance) it cost around $250. Last time I checked, Verizon reduced their overage fees to something around $10/GB. Cellular data service such as 1xRTT, EVDO, LTE, etc is great when your only other options are dialup or consumer satellite internet service. -----Original Message----- From: Leo Bicknell [mailto:bicknell () ufp org] Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:24 AM To: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: Verizon Business - LTE? In a message written on Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:34:50PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote:
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:28 PM, chris <tknchris () gmail com> wrote:I've apparently hit some kind of magic bw limit. My 4G LTE is now magically fixed at max 1.5mbps Last month's usage was about 200gb. cmon verizon seriously :(they've been fairly public about 'unlimited' != "unlimited"
I have no issues with a cap, however I have huge issues when a company is allowed to call a capped service "unlimited". I think it's straight up false advertising, and I really wish some state AG's would take up the issue. But what's more interesting is that Verizon's contract for LTE has _the exact same cap as 3G service_, 5Gb. If Chris is really getting 200Gb before being capped, that is impressive. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2373767,00.asp PCMag did the math, you can use up the 5GB alotment in 32 minutes with LTE. Seems like as the speeds get faster the cap should get larger, doesn't it? -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
Current thread:
- Re: Verizon Business - LTE?, (continued)
- Re: Verizon Business - LTE? Christopher Morrow (Aug 17)
- Re: Verizon Business - LTE? Joel Jaeggli (Aug 17)
- Re: Verizon Business - LTE? Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 16)
- Re: Verizon Business - LTE? Cameron Byrne (Aug 16)
- Re: Verizon Business - LTE? Christopher Morrow (Aug 16)
- Re: Verizon Business - LTE? Lynda (Aug 16)
- Re: Verizon Business - LTE? Måns Nilsson (Aug 17)
- Re: Verizon Business - LTE? chris (Aug 17)
- Re: Verizon Business - LTE? Owen DeLong (Aug 16)
- Re: Verizon Business - LTE? Joel Jaeggli (Aug 20)
- RE: Verizon Business - LTE? Eric Wieling (Aug 16)
- Re: Verizon Business - LTE? Joe Greco (Aug 16)
- Re: Verizon Business - LTE? Charles N Wyble (Aug 14)
- RE: Verizon Business - LTE? Ryan Finnesey (Aug 14)