5GB Limit. Really?
Synexis
Newbie

Does anyone know if the 5GB cap has a legitimate purpose? Is there not enough bandwidth for everyone to share? If that's really the case then I can be OK (albeit unhappy) with the policy. But if it's just so Verizon can make a fortune on 5 cent per MB overage charges then that's another discussion. Just wanted to share my 410KB worth.

Cheers.

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yeeheecom
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I have only one thing to say Road Runner 4G Mobile broadband and it is only $34.95 a month for unlimited bandwidth.  Why can't verizon do this? Its like most companies these days, GREED. It will eventually be there downfall.

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Zehan
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It's because Road Runner has more bandwidth than Verizon, and since it's home service, they allocate bandwidth regionally, not nationally. Verizon has only so much bandwidth for the entire country, and because it's mobile, it costs more to maintain. This why you can get home phone service for $30 unlimited, but wireless plans cost more for a limited plan.
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yeeheecom
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"It's because Road Runner has more bandwidth than Verizon, and since it's home service, they allocate bandwidth regionally, not nationally. Verizon has only so much bandwidth for the entire country, and because it's mobile, it costs more to maintain. This why you can get home phone service for $30 unlimited, but wireless plans cost more for a limited plan."

 

{please keep your posts courteous} Road Runner has Mobile now and it is unlimited . You get a usb modem just like verizon offers and it is zooming fast. and it is only $34.95 a month.   More bandwidth than verizon. lol what a joke.  You don't have a clue what your talking about.

 

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Not applicable

You should switch to Road Runner then.

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yeeheecom
Newbie

"You should switch to Road Runner then."

 

I did. and its great. {please keep your posts courteous}

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Zehan
Contributor - Level 2

{No personal comments, please}

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Not applicable

I don't work for Verizon.  I'm just a very satisfied and loyal customer.

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Zehan
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I'm sorry, my mistake. I was unaware Road Runner offered that service. If it's as great as you say it is, then I'm happy you found an alternative that works for you. Upon doing some research as you so politely suggested, I found that Road Runner does not offer service in all areas, and their speeds vary from place to place. In fact, when comparing Verizon's map to Time Warner's, Verizon has a much larger coverage area. With Time Warner, you will need to sign a 2-year contract with an activation fee just like Verizon. Also, in order to be able to have Roadrunner mobile broadband, you must be subscribed to one of Time Warner's home services, and they DO NOT have service in all areas, as our rural friends will tell you. So, for where you can use it and IF you happen to have home service with them, Time Warner's mobile broadband seems like a good solution. Although, I like a larger coverage area, and once you factor in the cost of the home services, the cheaper Roadrunner rate suddenly seems to be rather expensive.... Thanks for telling me to do some research; I think I'll stay with Verizon. They're developing their own 4G network anyway.   {please keep your posts courteous}

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Deamorei
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There are some unlimited wireless broadband companies out there.  This http://datajack.com/ is just one of them. The American public is getting fed up with data providers cellular or non capping our usage. Again these wireless companies are soaking us for our money. Just look at there profits and earnings. Look at how they trap customers into outrageous 2 year contracts with extreme ETFs. It's really only a matter of time before Verizon gets a reality check that AT&T and Microsoft got a few years ago. I live in a HUGE county in Ohio and the population for the entire county is 45000+. The majority of this county is rural populations. Do you actually think that we aren't a targeted group nation wide? We are BIG targets. There is no competition for us to choose from regretfully.

 

We have the same desires and wants from broadband that city dwellers have access to. Our families deserve to have that same service. The tower I use is 3 miles from my house. I doubt the 4 houses per square mile which IM guessing less then 25% have mobile broadband in their homes is soaking the network for all its worth. Verizon in effect is limiting my access to the web. I can burn through 25mb of surfing in one hour with ease. In fact in one hour and 18 minutes me and the wife have used 35mb of data. We use our internet service just like we always have and we haven't downloaded squat in this hour and some change. More then likely we will exceed the 5GB cap this month since were off for the holidays.

 

I personally and going to cancel my service and pay the ETF when one of these other companies go unlimited data which will happen the near future. It's all about supply and demand. If you can't supply us with what we desire then another smart business will. Again wireless is the future of all things. Its ALOT cheaper then wired is all around. And Verizon didn't build a lot of these towers people try to use for justification in pricing. In my area they are leased towers owned by tower companies. Keep writing elected officials because some actually do listen and act. The more that complain the more actions that take place. Happy New Year with hopes of unlimited broadband for all.

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Zehan
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I really wish some people would actually do some research into why wireless companies impose a cap on data usage instead of just chalking it up to "greed." And for those in rural areas, well, Verizon didn't make you live there and it's NOT Verizon's responsibility to ensure you have cheap, unlimited internet services. Quit complaining.
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reallyniceguy
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I miss my alltel data card, it was trully unlimited.
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Deamorei
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The reason the so called caps are in place is because the service is way oversold namely in cities.. Heck AT&T had to stop selling the Iphone in NY. Excessive useage is highly impacted by subscribers living in certain area's IE highly populated cities not urban America but Verizon cant write locational policy based on population without legal issues. Verizon is also a monopoly. They can do what they want right now.to include taking our country backwards connectively compared to the world as a whole.

 We all own part of Verizon through part of our tax dollars that they use to expand.. What good is blazing fast speeds to consumers that can't use it? A person has no need for anything above 256k if all they so is surf and check email. I get 2mbps on my MIFI. I get this above average speed because of no demand on the tower. Verizon knows wireless is the future now and is why they sold ALOT Of there hardline networks to include some FIOS locations. And ot the remarks of where we live. 

As to the silly remark about " Well Verizon didn't make you live there comment",  City users don't have a high demand for mobile broadband when they have hard wired in just about every location you visit.  People in cities long to go on vacations to get away from cities. I don't have to go anywhere i'm always where they want or dream to go while being 35 miles from a very large city. http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/03/1926206 Verizons says it will supply rural America with 4G starting in 2010 of course city folk get first dibs for what? 3G is fast enough for emailing and surfing even VOIP. I wish they would stop selling us speed something we aren't allowed to use much of. Speed means being able to do MORE it always has not LESS..

 

I think the wireless and it's providers are in for some shocking changes this year to be honest. Net neutrality will pass, etc, etc

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You should switch to AT&T.

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Zehan
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Okay...no. Caps are in place to discourage overuse of the data network much like what happened with AT&T and the iPhone. Verizon is NOT a monopoly, though they may be the only wireless provider in certain areas. The same can be said about all carriers. They are NOT taking us backwards; when most of the world (including AT&T and T-Mobile) is running on a dated, limited GSM network, Verizon (and some other countries as well) is pushing CDMA which has better quality, network capacity, and reliability. I'd say those are steps forward, not backward. Also, the last time I checked I paid taxes to the GOVERNMENT, not Verizon Wireless. Verizon can't spend your tax money; not really sure where you got that from... Finally, city users get preference because THERE ARE MORE OF THEM. Verizon isn't going to waste money supplying a few hundred people with service when they could get more money by supplying hundreds of thousands or even millions of people for the same cost. They can then take that money and spend it on less lucrative rural ventures. And who is to say urban dwellers have less need for wireless internet? That's just an assumption whether it's true or not, and anyway it's irrelevant. I'm not saying the country is a bad place to be (I grew up there), but I will say that when you CHOOSE to live there you ought to understand that there are certain services that may not be available to you, and it is not the responsibility of Verizon or any other provider to cater to your specific needs. It would be nice if they did, but one can hardly blame them for not wanting to lose money doing it.
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bbbert
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Did you know that you can be grandfathered into the UNLIMITED service!!! If you had a card with the old unlimited service they can give you unlimited on the mifi.. BUT if they change your number you lose that optition. Like if the Verizion guy wants his little commision they will change your numbet and you lose....It happened to me that way and my neighbor was just grandfathered cause he knew my problem...Cost me $190.00 the first month...What a rip........

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Zehan
Contributor - Level 2
Shady reps suck. They give every carrier a bad name.
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supitsmike
Specialist - Level 2

I'm here to assist what Zehan has been repeating over and over. Lets start off with some napkin math, shall we?

 

1 GB = 1,024MB of space.

5 GB = 5,120MB of space.

 

Assuming that say, I don't know 250 people all have a Mifi/Wifi/whatever card, and reached their cap, that would mean that

 

250 People * 5 GB cap = 1,250GB of bandwidth. Based off this math, one could determine that 1,024 GB of space/bandwidth equals 1 Tetrabyte(Or is it Terabytes? I forget >.>) of space.

 

On average, Google's page goes through 50 Tetrabytes of traffic on a day-to-day basis. Lets, hypothtically double that 5GB cap to 10 and see where that takes us:

 

250 People * 10 GB cap= 2,500GB of bandwidth. Which is already clearly over 2 Tetrabytes of bandwidth.

 

With Verizon being the lead company in pretty much everything, and seeing as how anyone can assume that more than 250 people use Mifi/Wifi cards you can see how it becomes rather expensive and hard to maintain:

 

  • Over X amount of people constantly connecting to towers for internet.
  • Keeping the internet at satisfying speeds.
  • Keeping the internet connection well, and healthy at all times so you have no issues connecting.

 

What strikes me as appauling here no one has really complained of the quality of the service, and neither has anyone complained or put into aspect that per GB you aren't getting the service you need.

 

All I'm reading here is that people are getting tremendously greedy.

 

lolwhat?

 

 

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Not applicable

Your post make absolutely no sense.  You're trying to calculate how much bandwidth 250 people would use in a month if they used their 5 GB allocation twice.  Then you're comparing that to Google's usage in one day.  Those numbers are meaningless, but good try.

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supitsmike
Specialist - Level 2

jimfitzgerald wrote:

Your post make absolutely no sense.  You're trying to calculate how much bandwidth 250 people would use in a month if they used their 5 GB allocation twice.  Then you're comparing that to Google's usage in one day.  Those numbers are meaningless, but good try.


 

Being blinded by greed, when the statement I was making was obvious only makes ^This^ comment as **bleep** as this well...

 

Thread.

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Not applicable

Maybe, but to throw up a bunch of meaningless numbers that don't support your point makes you look silly.

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supitsmike
Specialist - Level 2

jimfitzgerald wrote:

Maybe, but to throw up a bunch of meaningless numbers that don't support your point makes you look silly.


 

The "numbers" (because face it, making it seem like that was complex math is silly) supported exactly what I was saying. If you can't read between the lines, not my problem.

 

And especially since I was supporting what you have been stating this whole time. Anyway, I'm done with this thread, and preventing an argument with you that you won't win.

 

Cheers,

Mike

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