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Verizon Wireless' "Unlimited" EVDO Data Plan Is... Limited
Filed in archive Mobile by jeff goldman on July 26, 2006
Verizon Wireless' "Unlimited" EVDO Data Plan Is... Limited

ConsumerAffairs.Com' Joseph S. Enoch notes today that Verizon Wireless' "unlimited" BroadbandAccess service is, well, limited.


"When consumers use this service like they would any other broadband connection, Verizon cancels the account," Enoch writes. "ConsumerAffairs.Com discovered this when Verizon, with very little warning, cancelled our account."


According to Enoch, a letter from Verizon stated that the company had "found that your usage over the past 30 days exceeded 10 Gigabytes.... This level of usage is so extraordinarily high that it could only have been attained by activities, such as streaming and/or downloading movies and video, prohibited by the terms and conditions."


Enoch notes that at $59.99 to $79.99 a month, Verizon's "unlimited" wireless broadband costs roughly twice as much as a residential DSL or cable Internet account -- and the company's terms and conditions brochure only has one brief reference to any restriction, stating that the service cannot be used for uploading, downloading or streaming of movies, music or games -- or for VoIP, which could put a wrench in the works of PeerMe's plans (see post below).


"It's unlimited amounts of data for certain types of data," says Verizon Wireless spokesman Jeffrey Nelson.


As Enoch points out, that seems like a restriction that's left over from older, slower networks -- at 400-700 Kbps, Verizon's going to be spending a lot of time kicking users off its network if the rule continues to be enforced.




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