Verizon wants to charge websites for the privilege of carrying their packets.
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[quote]Think of all the things that tick you off about cable TV. Along with brainless programming and crummy customer service, the very worst aspect of it is forced bundling. You can't pay just for the couple of dozen channels you actually watch. Instead, you have to pay for a couple of hundred channels, because the good stuff is scattered among a number of overstuffed packages.
Now, imagine that the Internet worked that way. You'd hate it, of course. But that's the direction that Verizon, with the support of many wired and wireless carriers, would like to push the Web. That's not hypothetical. The country's No. 1 carrier is fighting in court to end the Federal Communications Commission's policy of Net neutrality, a move that would open the gates to a whole new -- and wholly bad -- economic model on the Web.[/quote]
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Sounds just like Verizon. I pay $100 a month just to have a basic cell phone. Fuck them.
Shit like that would never fly in Europe.
[QUOTE=Van-man;42169720]Shit like that would never fly in Europe.[/QUOTE]
Hopefully it doesn't fly here.
[QUOTE=duckmaster;42170055]Hopefully it doesn't fly here.[/QUOTE]
Considering how rampant lobbying is in the US compared to Europe, you might as well be pessimistic.
Unless Google or similar decides to open the big spending wallet.
Well for once I'm glad on AT&T, (not really they treat people on Gophones like crap but I don't have to deal with shit like this)
Literally Hitler.
They should be fighting to remove shitty cable regulations, not good network policies.
I was gonna post how my family has like a $400 something monthy bill for 4 smartphones on Verizon, but then I remembered that my sister uses like 2-3GB a week (on a 8GB shared data plan) so we always go over.
I have no idea how someone manages to use 2GB of data a week, I once barely broke 2GB in a month after a bunch of heavy downloads on my first android.
[QUOTE=dwt110;42170846]I was gonna post how my family has like a $400 something monthy bill for 4 smartphones on Verizon, but then I remembered that my sister uses like 2-3GB a week (on a 8GB shared data plan) so we always go over.
I have no idea how someone manages to use 2GB of data a week, I once barely broke 2GB in a month after a bunch of heavy downloads on my first android.[/QUOTE]
Facebook.
I barely use 1GB a month, and that's with listening to Pandora while I drive.
[editline]12th September 2013[/editline]
But I've got WIFI at home and WIFI at work too. I used to come pretty close towards the end of the month at my last job. Spent a whole lot of time browsing Facebook out of boredom. :v:
Why the hell aren't you guys T-Mobile $30 plan + Nexus 4 master race?
Because I signed a contract, and that plan didn't come out until a few months later.
And unless T-Mobile has gotten better than when I had them a couple years ago, their service is awful.
Guys, they're [B]not[/B] talking about Verizon wireless, but [B]Verizon as an ISP. This includes FiOS[/B]
[editline]12th September 2013[/editline]
It would obviously affect wireless, but it's both wired and wireless internet provided by Verizon
[QUOTE=Dacheet;42171630]Guys, they're [B]not[/B] talking about Verizon wireless, but [B]Verizon as an ISP. This includes FiOS[/B]
[editline]12th September 2013[/editline]
It would obviously affect wireless, but it's both wired and wireless internet provided by Verizon[/QUOTE]
As of 2014 it will be a division of Verizon Communications. At the moment they are a 55% majority shareholder, but they announced a plan to buy out the other 45%.
So either way, it's essentially the same company.
Simple solution, get Google, Amazon and all the major sites to demand huge payments from Verizon in return for providing their content to Verizon users, unless Verizon drops this stupid plan.
Verizon used to be a pretty decent company, then came the fucking data caps (6 GB for $80 a month) and now this.
I've blown through 20gb on my T-Mobile when the shitty Comcast internet went out in our area. Currently under HSPA 42 you get a solid 28-30mbps which is more than Comcast's midtier plans, it's unlimited data too. On the LTE networks around here you supposedly get around 40mbps which is more than you can get with Comcast in these parts thanks to our horribly dated infrastructure. Verizon and Sprint while having excellent [b]2G[/b] coverage all over the boonies and the areas you spend maybe 0.5% of your life outside the city, their 3G/4G/LTE/Wimax coverage and speeds suck ass. On the HSPA 12 hardly making 10mbps I generally get better speeds than Sprint/Verizon do on their full speeds. No thanks. Verizon Fios? Who cares, they haven't laid that really anywhere still and ended up selling it all off to Pioneer or whatever since they couldn't turn a profit with it.
Across 5 lines, cutting out the monthly payments on a Nexus 4 on our plan we pay $130. So like $26 a phone, this includes 3 data plans, unlimited texting, unlimited roaming, ect. We have like 750 minutes, who knows we've never even used half of them. The only possible way to run up any sort of overage or added fee is international calling or texting and running over the minutes. T-Mobile doesn't charge anything for roaming data, roaming calls or any bullshit like that. Nothing unexpected happens and the only thing which runs up fees is International stuff which they have a $10-20 addon for that if you really need it.
AT&T is anti-consumer, have shit phones and their networks are slow as shit too.
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All you can do is cancel with companies like this and email up their CEO telling them their service is shit, and they should be shamed of themselves for their anti-consumer practices. Be sure to wish them well into Chapter 11 as they gut the company for every cent and bail.
Then Verizon customers won't be able to access any services on our network. Sucks for the customers, until they switch to a better ISP.
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