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Verizon claims to deprioritize on busy towers rather than hard throttle you after a certain number of gigs. Same thing happens for T-Mobile, AT&T & Sprint. Wit
by mehhh 7y ago
Verizon claims to deprioritize on busy towers rather than hard throttle you after a certain number of gigs. Same thing happens for T-Mobile, AT&T & Sprint.
With a hard throttle there is no way a user could burn 200GB a month over LTE, but with deprioritization you still get full LTE speeds on most cell towers.
- skavi 7y agoDoes an MVNO like Fi have that kind of control though?
- mokus 7y agoDoes being unable to offer something justify mischaracterizing what they can offer as if it were that thing?
- jrochkind1 7y agoI have found my phone on Cricket (owned by AT&T) is surprisingly usable after data cap is reached and you are throttled. Like, email and even google maps, no problem. Facebook perfectly usable although with some lag. I didn't bother trying to watch videos. I have been curious if the usability of "throttled" speeds differs between carriers.
- Pfhreak 7y ago> surprisingly usable > I didn't bother trying to watch videos. Uh-huh. Missing video means the service is unusable.
- jrochkind1 7y agoOh, is that what people are complaining about? Fair enough, but not important to me. Are all the carriers "throttled" rates good enough to do most things but watch videos then?
- FireBeyond 7y agoDuring the California fires emergency services found that Verizon's "MAY throttle you, on BUSY towers, in periods of HIGH traffic"... Actually meant "WILL unconditionally throttle you after 1 bit more than your quota, even in an evacuated area at 3am, to 128 or even 64kbps".
- mehhh 7y agoMore Everything data pools get hard throttled to that speed after the data pool runs out, not deprioritized like newer plans. Still a shit thing for Verizon to do...