Comments on: As of Yesterday Verizon Started Throttling its Top 5% Data Hogs, Doesn’t Affect 4G LTE or Tiered Data Customers

By: Jonathan-David Clark

Jonathan-David Clark — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:51:00 +0000

I’m being throttled, I live in a rural area and only have 4gb of use. This has made me mad. I don’t pay 115 bucks a month to get throttled after 4gb. Time to switch to another company.

By: Rashad Hill

Rashad Hill — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:55:00 +0000

Due to VZW throttling, they have now falsely advertised to its customers about the practicality or fuctionality of their 4G LTE phones and network. Vzw advertised that with the new more efficient network of the 4G LTE, streaming videos to a 4G LTE phone would be effectively possible. My throttled Razr Maxxx is now slower than what my old 3G Droid when it comes to data speed. I’d seriously rather things go back the way they were before without the 4G LTE. I smell a lawsuit coming. Companies like VZW, AT&T and T-Mobile are raping their loyal customers, because with the new broader bandwidth of the 4G networks, these companies are using less resources and money to operate what they can do now on a 3G network scale, but now charge customers the same for a throttled data speed thats practically worthless for streaming videos and too damn much for a tiered data plan. Me personally it would cost me a good $200 in data fees to do now what i have had for years since pda phones were a thing.

By: Will Wiggins

Will Wiggins — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:34:00 +0000

Mine has been like that for months, and I’m not even using a freaking gig.

By: Oops10gigs

Oops10gigs — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:57:00 +0000

their* and didn’t realize this was 9 months ago lol.

By: Oops10gigs

Oops10gigs — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:55:00 +0000

I’ve been stuck at my parents’ house for 3 days and have used 10 gigs ’cause they’re Internet sucks. Paid for unlimited I should get unlimited I agree. Oh and I have 3G -_- crazy.

By: One pissed off American

One pissed off American — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:57:00 +0000

I think this is complete garbage. It’s everyones right to get what you pay for, this “network optimization” was not part of my contract when I signed up for service. I hate to be selfish, I dont care how many other users I should be concerned about sharing bandwidth….they are not paying my cellphone bill. A rip off at $130 a month. VZ should take the millions of dollars they are ripping off their customers and put it towards an upgraded network infrastructure. Not ceo, cto, board of directors multi-million dollar retirement bonuses etc.

By: mjoinsd

mjoinsd — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:56:00 +0000

Love your feminine pink theme here….. That was sarcasm.

By: speed3aller

speed3aller — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:18:00 +0000

By: drpains

drpains — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 06:31:00 +0000

Again and again isp’s want to steal from paying customers and customers online. also isp’s want to hinder inovation. The idea that your account you pay for is a community account. This type of thinking is nonsense. You pay for internet as a account addressed to you. if a isp wants to offer a speed up/down, the speed up and down should be able to run 24/7 365 as the customer chooses to access it. Bandwidth caps and throttling aka network management is not fair use its actual false advertising and not being realistic with. with internet need and usage for customers, business online and inovation online. It disgusting that isp’s want to cheat customers and force customers back to advertisment tv like cable and satelite. government pays for roads and should fund. internet building to expand abilities and allow any atartup isp to offer internet. instead of the current monopoly that wants to halt liberty freedom and inovation online.

By: FivePercenter

FivePercenter — Tue, 22 May 2012 07:06:00 +0000

The problem with this “first comments first” system is that no one will read this. Having said that:
I am currently using Verizon 4G LTE on a Droid Bionic with a grandfathered unlimited plan. I was experiencing slow buffering on YouTube videos to the point of not being able to view them. I ran the SpeedTest app and found out that my downstream was .48 Mbps on 4G. Switched to 3G; 2.00 Mbps. I know it’s not an outage of any sort because my 4G upstream was 6+ Mbps.
I don’t doubt that I would be in the top 5% of my towers’ users, but I don’t think at 3 AM there is a huge demand on the Verizon infrastructure.

If Verizon claims to not throttle 4G, they are lying. I’m a Verizon 4G LTE customer with speeds that are a fraction of their 3G speeds. I am the 5%.

By: RB

RB — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:29:00 +0000

That’s horseshit. I would much rather be able to travel the whole country and have Verizon service everywhere I go (with no roaming charges), than have slightly better connection speed in the small area I live in.

By: Nunyadamnbusiness

Nunyadamnbusiness — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:44:00 +0000

Most of the civilized world has vastly better cell phone servive than the US. That likely includes the country that you’re in and the country that you’re from, especially if they’re in Asia. Service costs less, phones cost less, and they don’t have any of this nonsense of companies monopolizing bandwidth – so the coverage itself is better. LTE can be pretty fast, but with all of this throttling nonsense, who cares? Besides, many countries have faster networks anyway! The bottom line is this: it’s idiotic to demonize consumers for using their devices for what they’re clearly designed for. If television providers limited how much TV you could watch because, “You are in the to 5% of TV users,” how would you react?

By: datahog99

datahog99 — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:37:00 +0000

Geez. I guess im a hog. I am at 72GB and this is only my 16/30 day of the month

By: Jkeyser21

Jkeyser21 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:00:00 +0000

The reason they shut the unlimited phones down is so they can make money by “allowing” the limited plans to go over….. just like as they team up with the free apps programs that require “a lot of data usage” for a simple app. It’s all about you going over your allowed plan so they can charge you overages!!

By: Mo128

Mo128 — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:34:00 +0000

I dumped Comcast because I watch a limited amount of TV — like only CNBC and BBC. I obviously have a phone, and Verizon 4G was jumping up and down saying the unlimited for 4G was indeed unlimited and without “throttling.”
This weekend I began to feel the throttling. If it persists I will drop them like a hot rock as I did Comcast. I have been a VZW customer ever since Cingular bought AT&T Wireless division in the PacNW. We sold millions into that company, and suddenly I had no service on their own campus! Next day I was a VZW customer.
There is no loyalty on Earth. Only family, and then ???
Marty