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

Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by dagw on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @09:38AM (#17818569)

You can download as much data as you want over the 32 kb/s connection we provide you :)

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by unnouinceput on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @03:19PM (#17821209)

I have 1Gbps (125MB) unlimited. I've never had any throttle. And down service is like max. 5 hours per year. Sometime I just put 100GB worth of torrents in queue, go eat lunch in kitchen and comeback and they are all finished. Welcome To Romania where unlimited is the norm here. Oh, and costs ~$15/month

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by nkrisc on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:48PM (#17830589)

But when you're not throttled at the start of the month and you are after reaching a certain amount of data usage (dare I say, a limit) then it is not unlimited.

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by dagw on Friday August 24, 2018 @03:33AM (#17833396)

I suppose someone could argue that you're always 'throttled', by network congestion if nothing else, and all they're doing is changing the throttle.

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