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Verizon CEO Says "We Will Hunt Heavy Users Down"
Zerocool3001 writes "In an interview with WSJ editor Alan Murray,Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg talks about how the FCC's broadband access studies are wrong (and the US is definitely 'number one, not even close'), how he had someone else stand in line for him Saturday to pick up his iPad, and how Verizon will soon hunt down, throttle and/or charge high-bandwidth users on its network."
I use Verizon DSL.
The rate is reasonable ($15), and I've never been throttled, or received notice that I used too many gigabytes. (In theory I could download 233 gigabytes each month, if I bittorrented 24/7, which I usually do.)
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
Summary and title are misleading; article refers to the smartphone data service explicitly, not DSL/FiOS internet users.
He is saying that we have more capacity and usage then even Japan, which wouldn't surprise me as we have about 100X the number of people.
Japan has about 127 million people. Has the US increased to 12.7 billion some time recently?
> Ah, fuck it. Go mangle the English language. I'll be curled up in bed, sucking on my language-nazi thumb.
Under the flourescent lights, no doubt. Some might say that your a looser! Their wrong, in a worser way than normal. You're comment inspires they're ire but you can likely find the compliment to it in any forum these days. It's pandemic.
Phew,I'm glad to have that out of my system. :-)
For the wannabe language-nazis:
It's fluor, not flour. A fluorescent lamp is coated with a fluor.
"Your" is possessive. "You're" is contraction of "you are", i.e. Your belt might be loose or looser. But you're probably going to be a loser if you gamble in Lost Wages.
Worser is not a word. Never has and I hope it never is. Things go from bad to worse to worst.
Their/they're/there: "Their" is possesive, i.e. Their car is green. "They're" is a contraction of "they are", i.e. They're there already.
A compliment is a nice thing said about you: "You look marvelous" is a compliment. A complement is a match or counterpart (in the literal sense) for something. A Philips screwdriver and screw complement each other. Or it refers to a roster: The platoon is at full complement.
"It's" is contraction of "it is". Its wrong to use it's in any other way.
Well, those are my pet peeves anyway. :-)