Anyone know how does Verizon react to amount of data used on my phone?

[dylanthecat]

If you have a Moto Droid you can not get a tethering plan, at least not yet.

 

[BigMcGuire]

If you have a Moto Droid you can not get a tethering plan, at least not yet.

EXACTLY....... <sigh>

 

[RichSmithSWM]

If you have a Moto Droid you can not get a tethering plan, at least not yet.

You know, I didn't think of that. I wonder why I had to tell the woman that sold me my Droid that I wanted to discontinue tethering on my plan. I guess they would have continued to charge me the $15 a month without a Verizon approved way of using it.

 

[justin82]

i am over the 5 gig a month here lately...and i tether very little.. (just enough to push emails on a buddies i pod touch twice a month or so and that is it.. and i was at 6 gig last month.. do listen to a lot of pandora and been downloading roms and stuff with phone when i do not have cord with me to hook it to laptop.. No problems yet from verizon

 

[jsh1120]

If you have a Moto Droid you can not get a tethering plan, at least not yet.

You know, I didn't think of that. I wonder why I had to tell the woman that sold me my Droid that I wanted to discontinue tethering on my plan. I guess they would have continued to charge me the $15 a month without a Verizon approved way of using it.

Given the extremely confusing information provided by Verizon with regard to "mobile broadband," "corporate email," and "tethering," it's hardly surprising that VZW staff don't understand what is going on. And yes, they would have happily continued to charge you an additional $15 per month on your phone unless you (or someone else) notices the problem.

I happen to know this because I paid an additional $15 a month for almost two years on my last phone to support "corporate" email when I could/should have been charged only the $30 per month broadband charge. VZW eventually admitted the error and refunded almost $300 in charges.

At this point, the situation appears to be as follows.

() The $29.95 charge on your account entitles you to unlimited download/upload on your Droid.

() All separate "mobile broadband" plans have a 5 gigabyte limit.

() There are "mobile broadband" plans specifically designed for "android" devices. They range in price from $10 to $30 per month but (a) there is no clear indication of why the prices differ and (b) although the VZW site indicates they are plans for "Android" devices and you can apparently add such a "service" to your Droid, there is no indication that such plans are actually designed for or apply to the Droid.

() All in all, the entire situation reeks of corporate indecision about what to do. I'm sure that someone somewhere in VZW understands what a mess the issue has become but they aren't talking. And until there is a clear corporate policy, there will be inconsistencies and contradictions for those trying to be "legal."

() For those who are not "abusing" their data plans, i.e. downloading so much material that it raises the question of how you could possibly be supporting other life activities other than looking at your phone, I strongly suspect that the corporate mess trumps any effort to levy an additional charge for your data use.

 

[RichSmithSWM]

[I happen to know this because I paid an additional $15 a month for almost two years on my last phone to support "corporate" email when I could/should have been charged only the $30 per month broadband charge. VZW eventually admitted the error and refunded almost $300 in charges.

I had the same "corporate email" situation for about 18 months before I realized it. When I called them about it I was told that (not in these exact words) it was my responsibility when I signed up for the plan to make sure I had the correct one. No refund for me.

 

[dylanthecat]

When I got my Droid (coming from BB) in November they said the Droid could not be tethered yet and they took tethering off my plan right away. They also reduced the monthly data from 45 to 30 since I did not get to go through BES anymore. $30 a month savings and a much better phone.

 

[ILovemyDroid]

dont have to worry about paying money for teethering verzon game up and doe not have to pay the 18000. so i guess its ok now

 

[dylanthecat]

dont have to worry about paying money for teethering verzon game up and doe not have to pay the 18000. so i guess its ok now

Tethering violates the contract you signed, so it is not OK. What is the 18000?

 

[taz1458]

Not really you pay unlimited until 5 gigs. Alot of tethering will send you high above that. Causing big red to grow suspicious.

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not true. i used almost 10 gigs on my last bill and it was no different.

 

[aminaked]

dont have to worry about paying money for teethering verzon game up and doe not have to pay the 18000. so i guess its ok now

Tethering violates the contract you signed, so it is not OK. What is the 18000?

Verizon forgives Dover man’s $18,000 cellphone bill - The Boston Globe

 

[Big Cam]

I don't know why I do it, but I keep reading these silly threads about getting caught tethering. I'm not worried about getting caught cuz I actually pay for the right to tether.

But someone mentioned that Verizon might have the ability to throttle down my bandwidth if they sense that I am using too much trafic and it occured to me that this may explain something that has bugged me for a while...totally unrelated to tethering, I might add.

I have a GPS app that I use for off roading and alpine hiking. It is called Trimble Outdoors. The app downloads map tiles as you move around. If you zoom in it has to download map tiles for that zoom level. So with 10 zoom levels you end you with 10 seperate map tiles for the same location. It stores these map tiles on the SD card so that it doesn't have to download them the next time you visit that same location like Google Maps does. And since the map tiles are stored on the SDCard you don't have to be connected to the network to use them the next time.

So in order to be prepared for off-roading where I won't have network coverage I sit in my living room panning around the state so that I have a map tile for every square foot of Nevada. I then zoom in one level and do it again. I currently have about 800 mb of data in my map tile cache directory.

I noticed that I can pan around for about 2 hours downloading tiles pretty quickly and then it slows down to a snails pace for about 15 minutes and then it just stops working. So I put the phone back on the wall charger (downloading these tiles consumes a lot of battery power). The next day I can get another two hours of zippy downloading followed by 15 minutes of sluggish downloads and then it stops again.

Is Vz throttling my bandwidth becasue they think I am downloading movies? LOL

OK...call me paranoid. But it got me to thinking. If I am paying for the rights to tether and I have an unlimited plan (130 per month)...wtf?

Nate

Why do you keep mentioning tethering when tethering is not part of your problem?

You are downlloading data to your phone, not tethering.

An easy solution would be to connect to wi-fi while at home, I never use 3G in my house when i already pay for internet service at home.

 

[Ghostwheel]

i dont see how anybody can use 5GB without abusing vzw services anyways. i abuse it by using imusic to download a song or two a day. but to use more then 5GB? u gotta be up to no good. and if u are using 5,10,15GB of data in a month then u deserve to have ur account suspended. because ur probably on ur phone way too much anyways.

This is all completely 100% true.

Also, if you abuse privacy by closing your bedroom window curtains, it means you must be up to no good and deserve to be raided at 3:00AM by the FBI.

Stop the abuse, people! :icon_ banana:

 

[ILovemyDroid]

i just got rid of my internet. I went to verizon and they told me i can use pda net with out worry. thanks verizon for helping me say 40 dollars a month. i was told because its in the market it free to use.

 

[BigMcGuire]

That's what I was told too - if it is approved on the market then it is ok to use (even if it is tethering).