Verizon will throttle customers

You think THAT'S upsetting.

You all outta start tracking your data useage. And I wouldn't be going by the Verizon app.

When i started OTR i had sprint and 4 gigs of data for 6 months. Only used up 2 each month. Then i switched to V with 4 gigs. That lasted 3 months then i started going over. Bumped to 8 and that lasted 3 months before going over. Went up to 16. And that was close for a few years. Then i went up to 32 and started watching some netflix on the lowest resolution.Towards the end of my OTR. Usually ended up at 35.

Got a local job and went back to sprint. BAck down to 3 gigs. Now i use my att hotspot at work. 2.5 gigs plus .75 with my sprint phone at home. Same internet useage for 7 years. Minus the 4 months of 32 gigs and netflix.

Netflix was my first useage of internet tv. And i didn't sign up for that till the last 4 otr months.

 

I have wanted to leave Verizon...but when I had an At&t company phone and a Sprint company phone working at a crane company actually putting up cell towers..my Verizon always worked...hit or miss with the other 2. I figured I have to put up with the crap to get good cell service.

 

I've never had Verizon screw with me. My only complaint is the cost, which is something I agreed to when I got the smart phone.
However my situation has changed considerately in the past two years. Since we are no longer able to travel, I couldn't care less if you can hear me now from California to New York. So we will be leaving them after this contract is up.

 

Around these parts. ATt has the bigger footprint. And works in more places then S and V.

Kind of a PITA to have to carry my att hotspot with me to use my phone.

 

I only switched to Verizon because Sprint's coverage in certain areas was non-existent, but I've been hit by the "prioritization not throttling" pretty hard in some places. I've been knocked down to a third of 2G speeds, 40kbps, on multiple occasions.

 

How would you honestly describe yourself as a data consumer? At what point do they knock you down? Do you roam regionally or all over the nation?

 

Yes. What you are seeing is the bandwidth prioritization schema that they are playing with. And not just Verizon - all of them.

Example:
What is does is "throttle driver Bob" who is currently at 32 GB for the month's usage and he is sitting in a truck stop in Phoenix watching Netflix right now with it. There is heavy usage by citizens in Phoenix at this moment on THAT TOWER server. Then, tomorrow, Bob is in Dallas and he has no throttling because the tower he is connected to has not reached its current bandwidth usage cap at this moment.

 

The problem is that Verizon oversold their capacity. They're far behind where they need to be for the number of users they currently serve. And prioritization would actually not be that bad if it was just throttling. The QoS they use will hold your packets near forever though, so you can have throughput, but it takes so long to get there it's useless.

 

Yes, in some areas. But so have the other "big 3" also. T-Mobile has made the most improvement in the last few years and is just behind Verizon except for pricing. But like, I talk to drivers across the county every day on all carriers. I get the same throttling and signal conversations across all of them. They will always take the money first before worrying about the capacity. All they have to do is not make a bandwidth or capacity "guarantee" in the contract that we all sign and they are legally covered.

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