streakolean
join:2009-02-28
Oriental, NC
| exceeding 5 gig cap
got a verizon ad in the mail today and among other things it stated the fee per meg over the 5gig cap was reduced from .25 to .05. I'm curious, have any of you that were with alltel no cap and were taken over by verizon exceeded 5 gigs in a month since the take over? if so were you only billed 59. or did they charge you for the excess? i was over the cap in july but verizon was in charge only part of the month. i was over slightly in aug but havent recd that bill yet.
51. per gig over the cap is pretty expensive surfing, it does beat the 256. per gig over that they were charging. i hope my math is accurate.
.05 x 1024 = 51.20 .25 x 1024 = 256. |
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ShellMMG
join:2009-04-16
Grass Lake, MI | If you have a current Alltel contract for wireless broadband you will *not* be capped or hit with additional charges for going over 5G. You are grandfathered in. |
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streakolean
join:2009-02-28
Oriental, NC
| thanks for the reply, yep i'm aware of the "grandfathering" and i have material from alltel stating that my service wouldnt change after the sale. I was just curious if anyone had been billed for the excess in errror and how difficult or easy it was to have corrected. sorry, guess i wasnt too clear about that in my orig post. |
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anom1
@windstream.net
| reply to streakolean
It is more likely that Verizon Wireless would throttle your connections speeds down to near dial-up if you continually exceed 5GB of data usage per month. Verizon would rather have you dissatisfied than threatening to sue. Even if you wanted to file a lawsuit, you could not file one because you abdicated those rights when you agreed to become part of Verizon Wireless as a direct result of the merger. It's in the contract... |
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otter5555
join:2005-07-07
Athens, TX
| reply to streakolean
i have been with alltell for many years, dl'ing minimum of 20 gigs/month.
after verizon took over my speeds almost doubled up and dn but my phones started dropping calls. decent tradeoff 
i still dl 20+ gigs per mo, not a peep out of verizon.
sidenote:
travel a bunch and tether to my netbook going dn the interstate for 450+ miles. before the takeover i had evdo all the way. since the change, mostly 1x. |
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DixieSasquat
@bellsouth.net | reply to streakolean
11 gigs last month and not a peep from verizon either. |
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jbeenemd
join:2002-05-14
Willard, MO | reply to streakolean
Have you noticed any drop in ping times and download speeds? |
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DixieSasquat
@bellsouth.net | Actually my speeds have increased dramatically here recently since they finally converted the Alltel tower here to revision A Verizon a couple of months ago. |
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