> It all comes with some form of slowdowns, either right off the bat or at certain usage thresholds The majority of the throttling from carriers only happens o

> It all comes with some form of slowdowns, either right off the bat or at certain usage thresholds The majority of the throttling from carriers only happens on over-saturated cell towers, at that point, someone's data is going to be delayed, and honestly choosing the person who already used a lot of data seems more fair than just calling rand(), or even worse, degrading the experience horribly for everyone. The new wording in Verizon's plans sounds like they will first degrade people on the "Go Unlimited" plans, then degrade people on Beyond Unlimited who are over 22GB. It is unfortunate that they bucketed people into two categories of who gets slowed down first, but they do have to choose somehow. (And if the tower is incredibly saturated, everyone is going to experience degraded performance, that is how RF works, the laws of physics don't care what cell phone plan someone has!) The video resolution thing is nasty though.