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To Verizon, "Unlimited" Means 5 GB
Jason writes "For years there have been stories about people getting their unlimited Verizon EVDO Wireless accounts terminated because of excessive data usage, but Verizon never explicitly said that there is a limit. Now if you dive into the terms of the Unlimited Data Service plan they have put a section in that specifically states that anything over 5GB of data usage in a one month period is considered prima facie evidence that you must be downloading movies, and you will be cut off."
*Disclamer*
Of course, I know nothing about this, and only overheard someone else talking about it. I LIKE spending 10 dollars a pop at the theater, because there is nothing like having to squeeze past the fat chick in the aisle to fetch a 5 dollar coke for your spouse. I am helping to provide theater jobs for young folks, because I am a good person.
I hope you actually read my full post in which I conclude (and cleanly state): "That's STILL 461MB per person, per day, of assumed legitimate traffic." followed by a multiplication of 30 (that's the number of days in a month) to equal out to 13.5GB per month per person.
Lern2doMath. 700 is not what I was taking a percentage of, rather the total monthly transfer.
Right.
So it would take 4 or 5 days for me to go over the limit.
Ok, so I streamed TV to my machine last night from the ADSL interface since it's a service my ISP provides. Sue me, I'm a criminal.
I'm glad we still have sane ISPs in Europe (or at least in France, could be that a few are still capped in the UK).
So what's the best way to have decent Internet service in the US these days ? Dial-up to Canada ?
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
So in other words the stupid idiots forbid access to any server hosted application with a steady data flow. On an "unlimited" plan marketed to business people.
Looks like the Verison imbeciles wish to have "business" customers who would fork money over for these EVDO accounts and then use them to ... browse static or nearly static corporate web pages. But watch out for AJAX or anything that actually transmits ... oh horrors! ... data back and forth!
"Verison EVDO! The first network designed just for Pointy-hair Bosses! Sign up now and you will get a coupon for 50% off the price of your Lobotomy!"
And of course mobile online gamers or any other "non-business" user with 1/2 a clue who would need an "unlimited" account is the mortal enemy. Such a bastard might actually want to get what they advertised to lure him to Verison.
Mouth breathing, slack jawed, spittle spewing cretins indeed. Greed rotted their brains to the core.