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Verizon Wireless Data "Optimization" or Throttling Has Begun

Unlimited data is no thirster truly unlimited with Verizon Wireless, which has started slowing down data speeds for its biggest 3G data users at congested electric cell sites.

Verizon revealed its choking plans with a wispy announcement in February. Now, the company has posted a Net page with details for unlimited information users. Speeds will tardily down for the top 5 percent of 3G data users, which currently equates to approximately 2 GB per month. Accidentally, that's also the lowest data tier in Verizon's new limited plans. Verizon says it may update the threshold sporadically.

Verizon says this "network optimization" is different from strangling because it only takes effect when the network is low connected bandwidth. "Once you are no longer connected to a congested site, your speed will rejoi to normal," Verizon says on its Site. "This could mean a matter of seconds or hours, depending on your location and time of twenty-four hour period."

The postman says reduced data speeds volition vary depending on congestion, and isn't releas into specifics. Verizon will not slow users of its 4G LTE net, provided they invite out unlimited plans.

Throttling Picks Up Steamer

As smartphone gross revenue explode, choking is becoming a popular way for tune carriers to curb data use. AT&T will start throttling its top 5 percent of information users on October 1. T-Moveable reduces speeds for "unlimited" plans once users have exceeded their data limits. Virgin Mobile cuts speeds to 256 kbps for "bottomless" data users after they hit 2.5 GB of monthly information expend.

For AT&T and Verizon, throttling is also a way to prod power users toward tiered data plans, which are more expensive than unlimited plans but aren't subject to slower speeds. AT&T charges $10 per additional GB beyond its base 2 GB for $25 per month plan, and Verizon has tiers of $30 for 2 Great Britain, $50 for 5 GB, and $80 for 10 GB per month.

Although throttling is unskilled news for unlimited data users, and the phrase "network optimization" is basically PR spin, Verizon still deserves some accredit for explaining its policies in plain Side on a Web foliate. AT&T has not done the Lapp.

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