Tip UsA few weeks ago, Verizon implemented their “Network Optimization Practices” by throttling their top 5% of data users. AT&T started theirs back August, while Sprint still honorably believes in true unlimited data.
From Verizon’s perspective, optimizing their data network by throttling heavy users would allow all of their customers to have an enjoyable network experience by not having it choked down due to the heavy users. They made clear several times that this would not affect 4G LTE users, only 3G. However, we’re finding out that some 4G users are, in fact, getting the throttle treatment from Big Red.
In particular, one user broke through 55GB of data in 13 days before he ended up getting throttled down to “lower than 3G” speeds, according to him. Obviously, this is a lot of data, and it makes since for Verizon to make an exception to the rule with these kinds of users who abuse the network and such. Then again, another user reports that he has busted through a whopping 120GB in just 10 days and has not yet been throttled.
Could it be that the second user barely slipped by the monitoring gates, while the first user wasn’t so lucky? Obviously, hitting even 55GB on a 4G device (any mobile device for that matter) within a given month is very rare (and kind of ridiculous), so while this guy may have gotten his 4G speeds throttled, other normal 4G users probably won’t have anything to worry about.
via [Phandroid]
