anyone got in trouble for using 100gb/month on VZW Galaxy Nexus?

[anon(41073)]

Just Imagine if every customer used that much data imagine how crippled the network would be. For once I am in favor of the carriers putting an end to unlimited data so stop the abuse such as this. No need for a few people to mess it up for everybody. I am against increasing the price of plans though.

 

[anon(883913)]

Just Imagine if every customer used that much data imagine how crippled the network would be. For once I am in favor of the carriers putting an end to unlimited data so stop the abuse such as this. No need for a few people to mess it up for everybody. I am against increasing the price of plans though.

Really?! You're gonna complain about us actually USING our unlimited plans? Verizon advertised them as being truly unlimited a few years ago and they must keep their word as long as we pay the bill every month and pay full price for phone upgrades. Verizon also has THE best network in the US and they could easily take the load, its not like we're talking about AT&T here! lol I have used 40Gb/month of data for 2 years now and I know people in my area that use multiple times more, but yet I can still get 35-50mb/s on Verizon's 4G LTE no problem. How can you call this "abuse?" We aren't hacking the network or purposely trying to crash the network, we are just using the network under the terms of our contracts and terms of use, both of which allow for us to use all the data we would like to. You're saying they should stop offering unlimited data, what if there was an emergency and you had to have your phone for data intensive purposes,(I'm gonna use the situation we had a few weeks ago when hurricane Isaac went by my city in Fl and we had tornadoes and severe weather) whether it be to check local weather stations for severe weather alerts, let family and friends know you are ok, stream local radio stations for weather updates, etc? If you had a tiered plan and were scared to not check the weather because it would use the extra mb or stream that station for an extra few minutes to keep from going over your limit, you could get extremely hurt or even killed because you wouldn't of been warned about possible tornados, bad weather, etc. I realize this would only occur on rare occasions but boy, those are some mighty important situations!

 

[youngzayiles]

Really?! You're gonna complain about us actually USING our unlimited plans? Verizon advertised them as being truly unlimited a few years ago and they must keep their word as long as we pay the bill every month and pay full price for phone upgrades. Verizon also has THE best network in the US and they could easily take the load, its not like we're talking about AT&T here! lol I have used 40Gb/month of data for 2 years now and I know people in my area that use multiple times more, but yet I can still get 35-50mb/s on Verizon's 4G LTE no problem. How can you call this "abuse?" We aren't hacking the network or purposely trying to crash the network, we are just using the network under the terms of our contracts and terms of use, both of which allow for us to use all the data we would like to. You're saying they should stop offering unlimited data, what if there was an emergency and you had to have your phone for data intensive purposes,(I'm gonna use the situation we had a few weeks ago when hurricane Isaac went by my city in Fl and we had tornadoes and severe weather) whether it be to check local weather stations for severe weather alerts, let family and friends know you are ok, stream local radio stations for weather updates, etc? If you had a tiered plan and were scared to not check the weather because it would use the extra mb or stream that station for an extra few minutes to keep from going over your limit, you could get extremely hurt or even killed because you wouldn't of been warned about possible tornados, bad weather, etc. I realize this would only occur on rare occasions but boy, those are some mighty important situations!

Well just know that u guys are the reason they are changing that. People using 100gb would cause me to phase out unlimited too as a business decision. So when they figure out a way to pull us off our grandfathered plans and they will. Please don't complain because your one of the reasons why.

Sent from my galaxy nexus running jelly bean!

 

[mhans311]

I hope Verizon starts throttling at 5 or 10.

 

[jasongeiger]

I'm on my phone constantly and never used more than 3gb. I don't tether much though. I turn on wifi a lot when I'm home.

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[enik]

anyone got in trouble for using 100gb/month on VZW Galaxy Nexus?
(on the phone and/or via wifi tethering)

my personal experience is about 90gb to 95gb a month and haven't
heard anything from VZW over the last couple of years. (never
lower than 78gb per month during all this time)

the only problem is that the continuous wifi tethering has casued the
Galaxy Nexus to heat up a LOT, especially when the batter is being
charged at the same time.

Why don't you setup torrents on your phone too & let us find out.

My friend once used almost 1 Terabyte in a month, but that's when the EVO 4G just came out on Wimax.

Pics or it didn't happen I can't buy that

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[imtoomuch]

Op either has a serious porn addiction or is involved in suspicious activities. I could never, on my own, download 100GB of legal stuff per month. Unless this is an extreme, but legit case. Either way, you shouldn't be relying on tethering for this amount of data.

It's people like you who ruined unlimited data!

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[Mellimel22]

No Verizon killed unlimited because they saw they can get more money out y'all chumps without unlimited data blame the company not the consumers. I and a buddy of mine use 25gb per month but sprint is still unlimited lol

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[bryann22]

I do torrents online games, manage my stocks, Netflix, and music editing on mine,i use maybe 5-6...dude that's crazy lol

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[Mellimel22]

I download and flash roms stream amw Netflix and YouTube job apps and music downloads

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[reidoreilly]

The problem is you people are not using your unlimited data plan for your phone, you are using it for your computer with tethering, that's the problem. No way in hell do you use 100gb of data without tethering.

 

[jphillips1963]

Hell I don't use 40 gb in and entire yr and I tether my xoom tablet thru foxfi also. But I will gold onto my unlimited plan till forced off it or I die.

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[anon(883913)]

The problem is you people are not using your unlimited data plan for your phone, you are using it for your computer with tethering, that's the problem. No way in hell do you use 100gb of data without tethering.

100GB without tether is still easy! Ever heard of the Wed Dock and Lap Dock for the Droid Razr? I got one last week and within a week I went from only using a Gb or 2 on Youtube to over 12GB not including Netflix, and the actual work I got done on the Web Dock. I absolutely love this thing but it can CHUG down data, especially on 4G LTE. Now I do tether but only when neccessary, most of my data goes to Pandora / iHeartRadio and then Netflix followed by Youtube. Each of these are well above 10GB each!

P.S. I'm not counting from Verizon's official data counter because that counts the FoxFi usage, for some reason the built in data counter on my Droid Razr doesn't count the tether and theres only a discrepancy of about 5GB between the two which is only a fraction of how much I use month to month.

 

[mhans311]

How do you guys have time to even sit there and stream this stuff? Do you have a job where you can stream movies all day? I want that job

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[anon(883913)]

How do you guys have time to even sit there and stream this stuff? Do you have a job where you can stream movies all day? I want that job

Bionic'd from my tapatalk.

Im in high school and have free periods plus since its such a small school (theres only 50 students in both 9th and 10th grade, its a Pre-Collegiate Academy so theres only 9-10 grade) that we are basically aloud to do whatever we want all day. Whether it be face-booking, tweeting, looking on Android Central, YouTubing, etc. our teachers dont care as long as we get the work done and maintain our grades! I typically just have iHeartRadio / Pandora or some random Netflix show streaming in the background all day just to listen to while doing my work. Also, when I get home I use the Web Dock instead of using my Laptop for homework because its faster and I can do everything on my big screen at home rather than my small 15 inch MacBook Pro. Of course this is all done on 4G LTE because my home WiFi connection sucks.

 

[TauntingBull]

No Verizon killed unlimited because they saw they can get more money out y'all chumps without unlimited data blame the company not the consumers.

^^^This^^^

 

[anon(883913)]

I just forwarded a link to this thread to a buddy of mine at Verizon!

Sent From My EVO 4G LTE!

Why would you do that? Trying to get the illegal tetherers in trouble?

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[Bond32]

Those of you complaining are acting like a bunch of kids. We get it you lost your unlimited data because the rep told you to change your plan or you upgraded your phone and you aren't smart enough to do with about it.

To the OP, there was a guy on a different board who tethered 3 things to the phone and rang up 400 gigs regularly.

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[anon(41073)]

Unlimited data was when everybody used data pertaining to the device that was registered to that plan. Now that people are tethering a boatload of devices to that device it is overloading the network. So if a carrier has lets say 60million subscribers , it was meant to be unlimited for 60 million devices. So if you count the amount of devices being tethered, the amount of devices straining the network is probably triple at the least if now quadruple. How is the network suppose to sustain that? I don't work for any of the carriers, but lets just use some common sense here. I am sick of the bad apples(AAPL too) messing up for everyone.

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Those of you complaining are acting like a bunch of kids. We get it you lost your unlimited data because the rep told you to change your plan or you upgraded your phone and you aren't smart enough to do with about it.

To the OP, there was a guy on a different board who tethered 3 things to the phone and rang up 400 gigs regularly.

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Some people just don't get it.

 

[Bond32]

Unlimited data was when everybody used data pertaining to the device that was registered to that plan. Now that people are tethering a boatload of devices to that device it is overloading the network. So if a carrier has lets say 60million subscribers , it was meant to be unlimited for 60 million devices. So if you count the amount of devices being tethered, the amount of devices straining the network is probably triple at the least if now quadruple. How is the network suppose to sustain that? I don't work for any of the carriers, but lets just use some common sense here. I am sick of the bad apples(AAPL too) messing up for everyone.

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Some people just don't get it.

Pretty sure that's not accurate. Consider almost everyone with a smart phone on Verizon had unlimited data. There were still people tethering, racking up a lot of data usage. Now with lots of people, and the average person for example wants a smart phone so they make a plan that limits data. Now there is a huge drop in the actual amount of people with unlimited data. There is a remaining small percentage of people that actually still have unlimited and you're saying that small percentage is weighing down Verizons massive network?

I'm not buying that.

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