Well, you order "unlimited" bandwidth. That shouldn't mean "unlimited unless it's over 10 GB". If their threshold is 10GB then the plan should be that.
The market will win on this one. Cable companies killed themselves early in the bandwidth race by thwarting popular usage behavior. My gamer friends liked DSL because they could host game servers and multiple computers from one connection. Draconian terms of service agreements (as exhibited by cable companies in the early days) that prohibit normal behavior will suffer from market forces. If a carrier blocks users from surfing the sites they use when connected by other means, like at home, then they will jump ship and find a carrier that lets them surf how they want. Verizon, Sprint, Tmobile, Alltel, Cingular, Ampd, Disney Mobile, Fred's Hip New Wireless MVNO, etc. We have a lot of choices. Sprint and Verizon are at the head of the line for 3G data right now. That doesn't mean some upstart carrier will say all-you-can-eat means all-you-can-eat and take the lead in this tiny, but growing market. Patiently awaiting a letter, Mike PS: I believe we are seeing similar trends and corproate behavior patterns to those when dialup first started entering the home. Back around 1995, AT&T Internet got huge flack for limiting the number of minutes you can stay connected with their monthly unlimited dialup program - People jumped ship to places like Earthlink, who didn't limit anything or care how long you were connected. -- Mike Outmesguine President, TransStellar, Inc. http://www.TransStellar.com Author, Wi-Fi Toys http://www.wifi-toys.com Chairman, Southern California Wireless Users Group http://www.socalwug.org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tollfree: (866)778-TECH Direct: +1-818-889-9445 x102 Fax: +1-818-337-7420 AOL-IM: SOCALWUG Yahoo-IM: mikeoutmesguine VOIP-Skype: mikeoutmesguine Say: /OUT-mess-geen/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stan Slonkosky Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 8:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [SOCALWUG] Verizon terminating EVDO accounts for excessive usage A number of Verizon users have recently received a letter, which states, in part: "As you know, the terms and conditions that govern your NationalAccess and/or BroadbandAccess account, which were provided to you at the time of service activation and which are posted on VerizonWireless.com, only permit Internet browsing, email, and intranet access. All other activities, such as streaming and/or donwloading movies and video, are expressly prohibited by the terms and conditions. A copy of the terms and conditions is enclosed. "We recently reviewed your Verizon Wireless NationalAccess and/or Broadband Access account and found that your usage over the past 30 days exceeded 10 Gigabytes. Your usage was more than 40 times that of a typical user. This level of usage is so extraordinarily high that it could only have been attained by activites, such as streaming and/or downloading movies and video, prohibited by the terms and conditions. Based on these facts, your extraordinarily high levels of usage conclusively demonstrate a violation of the terms and conditions, and your account will be terminated on 5/30/2006." Sever users at http://www.evdoforums.com/about2366-0-asc-15.html reported that. Others have reported that their termination date is to be June 5. Also see the article "Use SlingBox, Get Your EVDO Terminated" at http://www.evdoinfo.com/Tips/PC_5220/Use_SlingBox%2C_Get_Your_EVDO_Terminate d_20060601753 and the related item http://www.evdoforums.com/about2548.html . So far there are numerous reports of Verizon getting their accounts terminated but only one from a Sprint user getting his account terminated. -- Stan Slonkosky --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SOCALWUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SOCALWUG SOCALWUG website: http://www.socalwug.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
