Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during wildfire

Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by gpm on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:23PM (#17813967)

This is what freedom mobile does in Canada. All their plans say in big letters "250MB" or "2GB" or whatever, and then buried in the fineprint somewhere is "if you go over nothing happens except that we reserve the right to throttle your plan to 256 kbps for the rest of the month, and if you continue using tons of data we reserve the right to further throttle to 32 kbps for the rest of the month".

I'm happily living on a 250MB plan.

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:37PM (#17814065)

Huh. I was gonna say it's weird that they'll throttle you a second time, because I don't imagine you could download much at 256kbps even in a whole month of continuous traffic, but I did the math and it turns out you could get about 85GB in 30 days. So I guess that makes sense.

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by userbinator on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:12PM (#17815712)

I still remember the times when a 256K internet connection was not cheap, and ironically also "unlimited" in the sense that you could saturate it 24/7 for the whole month and no one could care less. Many weeks spent waiting for downloads to complete... some from P2P too.

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by yreg on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @04:35AM (#17817252)

Same in Central Europe.

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