[143737] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Verizon Business - LTE?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Wieling)
Tue Aug 16 10:37:42 2011
From: Eric Wieling <EWieling@nyigc.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:37:05 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20110816142406.GA13074@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
As I understand it, data on a smartphone is "unlimited", but data on a non-=
phone device (called Broadband Access) is capped at 5GB. =20
At one time if you went over 5GB on a "broadband access" account they simpl=
y terminated your account. This happened to me.
Then a class action lawsuit happened. I got a check from VZ and they stopp=
ed terminating people for going over 5GB. Instead, they charged some huge =
overages fees. IIRC if you used a total of 10 GB (5GB over your allowance)=
it cost around $250.
Last time I checked, Verizon reduced their overage fees to something around=
$10/GB. Cellular data service such as 1xRTT, EVDO, LTE, etc is great when=
your only other options are dialup or consumer satellite internet service.=
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-----Original Message-----
From: Leo Bicknell [mailto:bicknell@ufp.org]=20
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:24 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Verizon Business - LTE?
In a message written on Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:34:50PM -0400, Christopher =
Morrow wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:28 PM, chris <tknchris@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've apparently hit some kind of magic bw limit. My 4G LTE is now=20
> > magically fixed at max 1.5mbps
> >
> > Last month's usage was about 200gb.
> >
> > cmon verizon seriously :(
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> they've been fairly public about 'unlimited' !=3D "unlimited"
I have no issues with a cap, however I have huge issues when a company is a=
llowed to call a capped service "unlimited". I think it's straight up fals=
e advertising, and I really wish some state AG's would take up the issue.
But what's more interesting is that Verizon's contract for LTE has _the exa=
ct same cap as 3G service_, 5Gb. If Chris is really getting 200Gb before b=
eing capped, that is impressive.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2373767,00.asp
PCMag did the math, you can use up the 5GB alotment in 32 minutes with LTE.=
Seems like as the speeds get faster the cap should get larger, doesn't it=
?
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Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440
PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
