![]() So I dug deeper and discovered that my file transfers were only being throttled when binge-on was enabled. ![]() Some time ago I was irate that my file transfers would start very quickly and then decreased to a crawl (a tell-tale sign of artificial throttling). At face value, it sounds like a cool perk, but it’s somewhat deceptive because when it’s on, what tmobile actually does it throttle bandwidth 24/7 at mediocre speeds This can be turned on and off by the user. Tmobile plans have a twist, something they call “binge-on”, to let users watch lower quality streaming video without it counting against their quota. When they use up their quota they can’t skype with us and even the web is painfully slow until the next billing period (think dialup in this day and age). It’s worse for my parents because they have no residential broadband services at home. When it happens, internet usage becomes intermittent and you wonder if it’s just a cellular issue until you check the bandwidth usage and see that it’s over the limit. For my last trip, I had to borrow my wife’s phone when I ran out. At home mobile internet is mostly redundant, but when I travel I reach that 6GB limit extremely quickly. On my tmobile plan I get throttled after 6GB. It isn’t packet prioritization/QOS as in normal network jargon. Tmobile’s “unlimited” plans have a 50GB limit before throttling. “Deprioritise” is their code-word for throttling. We accept that throttling is “to protect the network”… but we see no actual data on this… also as I understand T-Mobile in the USA doesn’t throttle but deprioritises your traffic over a limit meaning you often still get full speed except during peak hours. To be clear, I don’t mind limits, but for the sake of truthful advertising this needs to be declared up-front! Bandwidth is expensive, I get it, but if a carrier can not afford to offer unlimited bandwidth for the whole billing period then they’ve got no business selling plans labeled as “unlimited”. For average joe nobodies, verizon’s policy of dealing with high usage on “unlimited” packages is termination. Let’s be real, the only reason it’s “a mistake” is because of the terrible optics of hurting firefighters. She said Verizon is reviewing the situation and “will fix any issues going forward.” In a statement to CNN, Verizon spokeswoman Heidi Flato said the company made a mistake. ![]() The document included an email chain that showed that the fire department had been working with Verizon to solve the throttling problem before the Mendocino Fires started and that Verizon did not lift the data caps until the fire department paid for a more expensive plan. But man, Verizon’s really got some balls to screw over the government itself with a limited “unlimited government plan”… It’s long been the case that carriers could get away with falsely calling plans unlimited when it is blatantly false, the government just looks the other way. These reduced speeds severely interfered with the OES 5262’s ability to function effectively,” Bowden wrote. “In the midst of our response to the Mendocino Complex Fire, County Fire discovered the data connection for OES 5262 was being throttled by Verizon, and data rates had been reduced to 1/200, or less, than the previous speeds. The department had an unlimited government plan with Verizon, but the company would slow, or “throttle,” data speed once the agency crossed a certain threshold, Bowden wrote.
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