The way I see it is those on an a UDP should feel lucky that Verizon let them keep it. I mean you are no longer in a contract with them for it and they no longer offer it. So they could have made you go to a tiered plan.
But we're nice and let ya keep it...I was on Verizon many years ago and heard they had plans of getting rid of the UDP and I dropped them and went to att also got tired of paying full price for my phoned when I wanted to upgrade...lol.
Those individuals must be using there phone as there main home Internet to use 100gb+ used data....I don't know how you can use that much just by using your phone....and if that is the case you are abusing there UDP do to the fact it was ment for use on phone only not as a home internet.
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I will agree with almost everything you've said, but I do want to bring to light that there are a very small subset of those users who are using their phones the way they were intended but due to their unique circumstances they use what most would say are exceptionally large amounts of data.
We have one member here that I know of for sure, who drives a truck for a living on long, cross country hauls. For those who don't know what that's like for drivers on the road, they spend often several days or more every week away from home, they drive what are called "sleepers", which are truck cabs with a living and sleeping compartment behind and above the driving compartment. Since they are on the road and in most cases they don't leave the truck other than for food, water and rest stops, they need a way to remain in communication with their families (including video calls and such), their companies, for basic entertainment, a way to keep connected with society through news and other programming, and in some cases they also run other companies from the road.
They are using the phones in most cases in a way that is within the TOS in that they may not be tethering the phones to computers, however even in those cases they could be pulling down 100GB+ per month. A Youtube movie could be from 1-2GB, but an HD movie, even at 720P HD can range from 3.5-5.5GB. In that example, just one movie a day and no other data consumption could easily push a member over 100GB in only 20 days. I wouldn't call that "abusing" the service.
Even those people who have no cable TV or home internet, as long as they aren't tethering, may actually be using the phones in a way that is in alignment with the TOS but still could exceed 100GB/month, since in their cases as well, they are doing things with their phones that most people do with their home PC desktops and laptops, and instead who have WIFI and they're only using the phone for high data content in the car, at the park, at school (when no WIFI is available), etc.
The issue may be there has been enough abuse by those who are in violation of the TOS that it has essentially created a problem and caused Verizon to clamp down. It's difficult, if not impossible for Verizon to determine if the data consumption is happening right on the phone or through a tether, so they only have the quantity of data as a measure of perceived abuse and to decide who gets the letter.
The good thing is that Verizon is making new pricing plans that give even those high-data users access to plans that can fulfill their needs and in many cases at the same or lower pricing, and they still will have essentially unlimited data available, albeit at throttled low-speed rates. So some of them may need to moderate their usage some, others will feel absolutely no pain or restriction in their use, and some may even feel some relief that they no longer need to worry about going over limits and potentially suffering disconnection or penalties.
