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78036364 (banned)
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Re: un-intended consequences

said by catchingup :

Or 3. throttle users if and only if the tower is congested and throttle them within speed limits based on what capacity is left not a set speed limit.

which is EXACTLY what they intend on doing. And you'd know that if you actually read up on what their plans are instead of just reading headlines and listening to FUD
Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO

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What they intend to do is only go after unlimited people. Which is the issue and does nothing to help them against people like me that have a 6gb plan and will use more than their arbitrary bandwidth hog definition.
78036364 (banned)
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78036364 (banned)

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said by Skippy25:

What they intend to do is only go after unlimited people. Which is the issue and does nothing to help them against people like me that have a 6gb plan and will use more than their arbitrary bandwidth hog definition.

You would at most use 1.3 GB more or be charged HUGE data overages. An unlimited data user could use 13 GB 130 GB 1.3 TB. HUGE difference.

I'm on a 10 GB plan but we have 5 phones on that plan. Should I be throttled? Why? 10/5=2.
Skippy25
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Doesn't matter and regardless of what I may or may not be charged it doesn't resolve the congestion issue which is their entire claim in why they are doing it. Cost to the subscriber is irrelevant and thus should apply to everyone on the congested node.
78036364 (banned)
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you didn't answer my question. Should I be subject to throttling on my 5 line 10 GB plan or not. and why.
sonicmerlin
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Uh... If Verizon couldn't put up an additional tower or small cell site then yes... If you are using those 6 GB during peak hours you're contributing more to congestion than someone downloading 100 GB at 4 AM.
Raides
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No. Verizon is throttling only unlimited data customers, not everyone else.

More to the point, the data caps are not because of network congestion. Any network engineer with sense knows it will not solve the problem that every time a World of Warcraft patch is released nodes get saturated and speeds get destroyed.

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said by 78036364:

which is EXACTLY what they intend on doing. And you'd know that if you actually read up on what their plans are instead of just reading headlines and listening to FUD

Exactly, which means they're not doing that now. That is the whole point.

Blah blah blah.