Verizon Officially Unveils 'XLTE' Speed, Capacity Upgrades → yawn.

Yea they break the 700mhz rules all the time. nexus 7 LTE? well good luck with that one.

Or they don't throttle, YouTube says other wise.

Verizon does what ever it wants, they didn't give all of NYC FIOS they those so called "rules" told them to, so why on earth does anyone think they wouldn't break the speed limiting one or any of the other 700mhz rules. Who can prove that they are really are breaking them?

You could use 1TB on that 50GB plan at $15 per GB and use that at peak times to screw every one else over. T-Mobile has folks using 300+GB and they are the fastest 4G LTE network speed test wise. How can that be?

110 mill VS 40-42 mill ok so 1/3 of the customers, smaller foot print able to use unlimited data for $30 a month VS $40 for 1GB on Verizon's share plan. Tell me how Verizon is slower and sells LESS data for MORE how does this make for such a gap?

It's because Verizon doesn't care a dump about speed at this point, only a nice little map that is total BS.

I know if/when they kill my unlimited, I will quit because there is no point for some one in city to sign up for such small caps at rip off pricing when they could get unlimited for less than the freaking 1GB plan. I don't even want to see there other pricing.

Despite spending money on spectrum and deployment they managed a 51% profit margin. That $3.6 billion was nothing to them, merely the cost of doing business in an insanely profitable market.

They've actually been incredibly slow at deploying more spectrum. They won't shut down their 2G network until the end of the decade, and who knows how much spectrum they're squatting on.

Your bolded text only says Verizon can't prevent people from inserting an LTE SIM card into a compatible device and using that on Verizon's network. It says absolutely nothing about network management.

well from what i've read, a lot of this is determined by local municipal ordinances, many of which heavily restrict the ability to install new towers of any sort. i think city/state governments usually despise them for appearance reasons.

but in theory, i think this is the right solution. if your network is congested to the point of degrading users' experience heavily, it should be the network managers' task to provide more throughput in whatever way possible. limiting/throtlling users is a stopgap for a bigger problem.

Unlimited is only reason I stick with Sprint as I'm using over 10GB/month. Would rather have 3-5Mbps unlimited than 100Mbps with a cap. Though am now getting 30-40Mbps on Sprint Spark more regularly now, at least between home/work. They need to get Spark on _every_ site and then should be in good shape.

Not gonna happen lol.
That's why I'm happily on MetroPCS paying $60 for completely unlimited talk,text and data

What's even stupider is that there aren't even any phones that support this.

Wish they covered my area... and let me byod

How quickly can you hit your cap now? 15 minutes?

I can just see it.

Inside the board room. "We can increase speeds so our customers will go over their caps even faster. Imagine the profits!"

I've noticed a lot of the 4G devices that can't do XLTE are greatly discounted or being given away free.