Verizon Gripes About EVDO Sharing > this will be so slow...

reply to Karl Bode

Re: this will be so slow...

Of course, but their alternative is to cap, throttle, and generally be legal PITAs, which isn't too wise from a competitive or PR standpoint, IMO.

It was the same complaint cable companies had when Wi-Fi emerged, and we posted stories about cable lawyers sending legal threats to people with open hotspots. AT&T Broadband would even have engineers fly over neighborhoods looking for open hotspots in the early days.

They eventually learned to deal with it. As will 3G providers.

My father works for boeing, and when you work for boeing you get a HUGE discount on Verizon Wireless service, we were able to get an E815 EVDO phone for 14.99 free activation.

Anyways, because of the way cellular networks divy up spectrum, verizon has to have a TOS like that. As someone mentioned there are bursts of higher speeds but when more people get on, of course it goes slower.

I understand their viewpoint becuase bandwidth hogs make it difficult for them to give advertised speeds. EVDO aircards and $80 service are going to be business users who need VPN and maximum availability, not bittorrent users who have to have the latest download then and there, so most people will acutally use the service according to the terms of the TOS, only a select few will actually abuse it.