Re: Verizon Business - LTE?

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org> wrote:
> In a message written on Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:34:50PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:28 PM, chris <tknchris () gmail com> wrote:
> > > I've apparently hit some kind of magic bw limit. My 4G LTE is now magically
> > > fixed at max 1.5mbps
> > >
> > > Last month's usage was about 200gb.
> > >
> > > cmon verizon seriously :(
> >
> > they've been fairly public about 'unlimited' != "unlimited"
>
> I have no issues with a cap, however I have huge issues when a
> company is allowed to call a capped service "unlimited".  I think
> it's straight up false advertising, and I really wish some state
> AG's would take up the issue.

ya see that little * next to the 'unlimited' in the ad, right? :(

> But what's more interesting is that Verizon's contract for LTE has
> _the exact same cap as 3G service_, 5Gb.  If Chris is really getting
> 200Gb before being capped, that is impressive.
>
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2373767,00.asp
>
> PCMag did the math, you can use up the 5GB alotment in 32 minutes
> with LTE.  Seems like as the speeds get faster the cap should get
> larger, doesn't it?

airtime is still the same price for the carrier...

-chris

(note that i believe almost all of these arguments are complete bs...
and said as much at the mic in denver)