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[Nakrohtap]

Not just blocks, but a lot of companies monitor your Internet usage in bandwidth and data downloaded.

 

[qnet]

my last company had a really tough one.. would block all sorts of stuff.. I cant remember if online radio worked or not though.. I think it did through aolradio

At my job you can most of the time just get 3G and only Verizon gets it. That narrow 700mhz sometimes penetrates the walls and, I'll get LTE on my Xoom but, rarely.

 

[Heath276]

It's very easy to go over 10GB a month.

If you have an office job where you sit for 8-9hrs, it's very easy to queue up 5 1 hour long podcasts a day.

If you work out, streaming music at the gym with Pandora or another app goes without saying.

For longer sessions, Netflix on the eliptical is a must.

Youtube videos on lunch. Websurfing, RSS reading. I could go on and on.

My question is, how do you not use at least 2GB a month on these awesome devices?

I'm right there with u I have music streaming all day long in my office. Can't use the WiFi or my office computer because they watch everything we only get 15 mins of web a day it blows. So I run like 7 to 10gb a month. I'm also lucky I'm the only one in the place that gets good Verizon 3g because I have a out side wall office with windows.

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[VickMackey#AC]

And what are you gonna do? Leave to another provider where you'll still be limited to 2GB data? I mean c'mon I understand you're frustration, but there's no solution. It's an industry wide trend. We have to accept the fact and adapt. Pay for only 2GB of data and use Wi-Fi as much as you can.... or pony up the dough for more data. It's that simple.

Every heard of Sprint?

 

[VickMackey#AC]

how does anyone with sprint use more then 1 gb of data? you must live in the one place in the country where they have usable 3g.. or perhaps you are in one of the dozen places where they have wimax.

edit: can you printscreen your last months data usage? I'd love to see that you actually used 10gb..

Wimax is decent. 3g speeds are abysmal though.

 

[bphelminski]

It's very easy to go over 10GB a month.

If you have an office job where you sit for 8-9hrs, it's very easy to queue up 5 1 hour long podcasts a day.

If you work out, streaming music at the gym with Pandora or another app goes without saying.

For longer sessions, Netflix on the eliptical is a must.

Youtube videos on lunch. Websurfing, RSS reading. I could go on and on.

My question is, how do you not use at least 2GB a month on these awesome devices?

I've never gone over 2GB of data. I stream ESPN radio on my morning walk to work. Atwork my signal isso weak that I can't really stream anything. As for working out, I go to an MMA gym so no headphones there. I'll be hard pressed to ever go above 2GB, at least until this job ends.

 

[Nakrohtap]

Every heard of Sprint?

Someone in my office has Sprint with a Photon 4g. His reception BLOWS. He has to place his phone in his guest chair in order to receive his text messages.
You won't have to worry about going over your data limit with that kind of service.

 

[voodootomato]

Every heard of Sprint?

Sprint's download speeds are horrible at best even on Wimax.... there is a reason its unlimited. It would take forever to download 1 gig on there network. I just switch to Verzion from Sprint(in a 4G area)
When i was on Sprint i average about 1.5 gigs a month just because the download speeds were unbearable. Now that im with Verzion im 4 days into my 1st billing cycle and have used almost .5 gig its just as fast for me to look up stuff on my phone then the network here at work.

Sprint is unlimited for a reason!!!!!

 

[JoeUserTX]

Someone in my office has Sprint with a Photon 4g. His reception BLOWS. He has to place his phone in his guest chair in order to receive his text messages.
You won't have to worry about going over your data limit with that kind of service.

I just can't grok to the mental picture of putting the phone to one's face to make a call, after someone visited the desk and inadvertently sat on the phone... lol

 

[VickMackey#AC]

Sprint's download speeds are horrible at best even on Wimax.... there is a reason its unlimited. It would take forever to download 1 gig on there network. I just switch to Verzion from Sprint(in a 4G area)
When i was on Sprint i average about 1.5 gigs a month just because the download speeds were unbearable. Now that im with Verzion im 4 days into my 1st billing cycle and have used almost .5 gig its just as fast for me to look up stuff on my phone then the network here at work.

Sprint is unlimited for a reason!!!!!

different strokes. I value quantity over speed. I admit sprints 3g sucks, but I get 6mbps down with Wimax. That's a good enough trade off for my needs.

 

[Thadrow]

Everyones different when it comes to using data.

When im bored i usually websurf with occasions of youtube videos here and there.

When im at work where we have alot of downtime thats where i pop in netflix, youtube, websurfing, music, video chatting for long time. A month i can easily exceed 10gbs+. If you have unlimited, use it. I dont tether. I hate when people scold people who use 10gigs a month. If they have unlimited its fair play.

The way apps nowadays are everything uses alot of data, its just the time were living in..so yes im a heavy data user.

 

[Gratificulous]

3) If this happens Nexus may be my last Smartphone with Verizon after 16 years with them.

Same

Sprint is looking mighty appealing if they keep the unlimited plan and expand their 4G capabilities.

 

[E.T.]

It's almost like Google wants to promote one vision of how devices should use data and the carriers responsible for delivering the data are not in step.

^This. Absolutely true. I think that's why Google originally tried to use the Nexus brand to get around carriers entirely. Too bad it didn't work.

 

[Premium1]

^This. Absolutely true. I think that's why Google originally tried to use the Nexus brand to get around carriers entirely. Too bad it didn't work.

Same with apple promoting the cloud.

 

[tony bag o donuts]

Same

Sprint is looking mighty appealing if they keep the unlimited plan and expand their 4G capabilities.

But they do throttle though correct?
I wouldn't mind actually if for the 30.00 it was 5gb soft cap like used to be (I say it was) but it is no longer in your contract fine print.

4-5gb a month is reasonable.

 

[Premium1]

But they do throttle though correct?
I wouldn't mind actually if for the 30.00 it was 5gb soft cap like used to be (I say it was) but it is no longer in your contract fine print.

4-5gb a month is reasonable.

Most likely it wouldn't be though since 95% of people use less than 2gb according to vzw.

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

Most likely it wouldn't be though since 95% of people use less than 2gb according to vzw.

They spoil me. Their coverage is so good, I don't ever turn on wifi. Never roamed and frequently am in 4g area. I had sprint and I roamed in my apartment at work (which means 1xrtt speeds). I was in a sprint 4g market and I can assure you, you can't keep a signal while moving with wimax. It was a joke really.

 

[tony bag o donuts]

Most likely it wouldn't be though since 95% of people use less than 2gb according to vzw.

True.....but see I am always around that 2-3 mark....and it's only because FIOS has stopped being rolled out and DSL is maxed with my uploading photos every day lol.....I need like two home networks for all the wifi devices.

 

[tony bag o donuts]

they spoil me. Their coverage is so good, i don't ever turn on wifi. Never roamed and frequently am in 4g area. I had sprint and i roamed in my apartment at work (which means 1xrtt speeds). I was in a sprint 4g market and i can assure you, you can't keep a signal while moving with wimax. It was a joke really.

nice avatar!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Deltaechoe]

So guys, all i can tell you is that last I heard from my buddy who owns a pet groomer where a friend of the cousin of the godfather of the brother of a verizon retail store rep who knows VZW laura's friend shops said its coming out on the 8th

so, credible source >.>