On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Leo Bicknell <bickn...@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 <tknch...@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)
