to me, this is just indefensible on VZW's part. regardless of which number of users calculation you accept (whether czerdrill or UNC's), the analysis is the same: Did you pay $200/$300/more to VZW for a phone? Yes. Did you sign a contract with VZW? Yes. Did that contract provide for unlimited data? Yes. Have you paid $200 a month for the past X years (like i have)? Yes.
but now, VZW can choose to unilaterally alter the terms of the agreement, solely to accomodate potential VZW customers who are not under contract, and who have not yet paid VZW a single penny?! is VZW going to correspondingly "throttle" back the bills it sends to its affected customers?! under no reasonable definition do i find this to be "acceptable" or "understandable".
if i told my existing clients, who i am under contract to serve and who regularly pay me, that i will be providing them less service than i originally agreed (and for what i've been paid) because i have a really big potential client that i am trying to bring on board, would anyone find that appropriate??
that's not what's happening though. why do people fail to see this? you are 100% correct, they can't just change your contract out of the blue like that. and that's not what theyre doing. for all intents and purposes you have unlimited data. this month you can use 1MB and next month you can use 125GB if you wanted. You'd still pay $29.99 for unlimited data. Verizon can't just charge you overages for using more data then what they want you to use.
here's what they can do, and what they
are doing. The contract clearly states that they can, at any time, for any reason throttle your data. does that completely suck? yes it does. is there anything that can be done about it? no, there's not. the contract that was agreed to didn't mislead the user and say "you will unequivocally have unlimited data, unlimited speeds, and the ability to use our network for whatever you see fit"...there was no data guarantee, no speed guarantee and no other guarantees in the contract except what i mentioned above.
you have unlimited data. but verizon can throttle your data whenever they want however they want for whatever reason they want.
and i think its foolish for anyone (not talking about you husker, just quoted you) to think that 50% of smartphone users are going to be throttled. how do people not realize how utterly ridiculous that sounds?
verizon, in their own corporate boardroom somewhere will set a threshold that they consider "extraordinary" usage. they will make the customer aware of this. if a customer goes over that usage, the top 5% who go over will be throttled. i mean it's spelled clear as day in that article, and everyone here is going crazy about it. and guess what? they are also allowed to do this because of the contract that everyone signed. it's in there. in black and white. ignorance of that fact is not an excuse.
90% of the people here will probably not even be affected. and it'll be 5% of the 10% that are left who get hurt by this. a very, very, very small amount. and yes...if an iphone user is in that 5% they will be throttled. you've gotta be kidding me if you think verizon is going to give free reign of their network to you just because you have an iphone and punish you if you dont...
