Verizon’s good unlimited data plan is now three bad unlimited plans

Re:Verizon’s good unlimited data plan is now three bad unlim... by derekp7 on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @03:54PM (#15075805)

But the question then becomes, is it a good or bad thing? Is it better to pay $10 per GB, or is it better to not have to worry about gigabytes, with the caveat that video (which happens currently be a high bandwidth consumer) gets throttled? Then add onto it that the video quality for many consumers is still more than adequate for the size of screen they are dealing with.

Personally, I don't do video over LTE, but I would like to use the mobile hotspot feature on my phone more often without having to worry about going over. And as long as it is enough for me to use ssh, RDP, or VNC, then I'm good. Other people, of course, have different requirements.

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Re:Verizon’s good unlimited data plan is now three bad unlim... by awinder on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @05:07PM (#15076405)

Yep, everyone has different requirements. And I think we have tested the world where, those different requirements all being equal, has served customers well. And innovation for that matter -- if video had a shotgun to it's back during its formative technology years who knows what kind of crappy technology we'd be dealing with right now.

I'm kinda in the same boat where I'm not someone who is just churning through video bandwidth, im rarely hitting 5GB across 2 phones on a heavy month. But that said I also would like to get great quality for the videos I do watch, and occasionally I'll throw a video to a tv and there you can definitely appreciate higher bandwidth there. I mean, I don't see the problem with the world where you can let applications & operation systems present choices to users, who will then set sensible defaults / pick and choose / etc. Enforcing this on a network layer is a pretty extreme measure.

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Re:Verizon’s good unlimited data plan is now three bad unlim... by atonse on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @03:57PM (#15075832)

But RDP and VNC are essentially streaming video over the internet. How would they make that distinction?

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Re:Verizon’s good unlimited data plan is now three bad unlim... by rmwaite on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @04:44PM (#15076216)

You can identify traffic flows based on any number of characteristics, port number, protocol, and data payload to name a few.

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Re:Verizon’s good unlimited data plan is now three bad unlim... by derekp7 on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @04:32PM (#15076116)

As long as I can get 10 frames per second on a remote desktop, I'm good.

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