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To Verizon, "Unlimited" Means 5 GB

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sue-for-false-advertising dept.

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."

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  1. What?! by Donniedarkness · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Movies? Hell, with the size of patches in some of today's games (or, better yet, the sizes of the demos...it's not uncommon to see a 1gb demo any more), it's kind of hard to not go over 5gb in HALF a month. Them advertising the service as "unlimited" is just flat-out wrong with such a tiny amount of allowed data usage per month.

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  2. 5 GB not much by MarkRose · · Score: 1, Redundant

    So that's a DVD install of your favourite distro, some web browsing, a couple youtubes, and you're over the limit. Though Verizon has never been known as generous.

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  3. Re:What the hell? by Astrobirdr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So do I use the Unliimiited plan with my new Wii? ;-)