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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. Re:Forgive my statistics, but... by dlevitan · · Score: 0, Troll

    75% is p2p? It's much higher than that. My (rather large research) university began charging for data transfers few years ago (I graduated last year). Each user was given 2 GB free/month. This number, according to them, was more than almost every student was using. At first, it seemed small to me, but after monitoring my own usage monthly, it turned out that I was coming in at way under 2 GB usually. That's with a lot of web surfing, AIM, and a lot of transfer to my off campus servers. I only ran over a few times (after the first year, the rate for data over 2 GB/month was actually lowered because there was so little demand for it).

    Your claims are BS and have no basis. The vast majority of users who do not run p2p apps do not use much data. Note that this doesn't mean I agree with Verizon's policy, but I frankly consider 5 GB/month for a mobile product to be very reasonable for 99% of users.

  2. Re:This is 2007. by NatasRevol · · Score: 0, Troll

    What if I did buy that movie, but my kids scratched the hell out of it, and now it's not watchable.

    Is it legal for me to download that movie?

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  3. Re:Whoa! by Trailer+Trash · · Score: 1, Troll

    I think most of you have missed something here: This is NOT for home internet. This is for a cellphone. Yes, you could plug your laptop into your cellphone and download that way, but that is NOT what Verizon is marketing this for. It's designed for text messages and WAP browsing. For the usage it's designed for, it's a large enough limit that there is no practical difference between the limit and unlimited.

    We need to get a "-1 cluefuck" moderation option. It's not for a cellphone; they give you a pcmcia card to plug in to your laptop. Holy shit, dude, have you not heard their stupid radio ad with a "hotel in hollywood" and all that? This is an internet service that you can use with your laptop anywhere there's verizon coverage.

    Moderators, please do your job and give this guy "-1 overrated" in the absense of the proper "-1 cluefuck" option.

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