To Verizon, "Unlimited" Means 5 GB

Jason writes "For years there have been stories about people getting their unlimited Verizon EVDO Wireless accounts terminated because of excessive data usage, but Verizon never explicitly said that there is a limit. Now if you dive into the terms of the Unlimited Data Service plan they have put a section in that specifically states that anything over 5GB of data usage in a one month period is considered prima facie evidence that you must be downloading movies, and you will be cut off."

Ah memories...

[PC-PHIX]

Reminds me of some time ago when I got my first hard drive with "unlimited" capacity... and then accidentally filled it up with 5GB of movies in the first few days of using it.

I vowed next time to get a hard drive with at least twice unlimited capacity.

Well, in Canada...

[lavid]

In Canada just pay .02 cents per kB. What a great deal!

new idea for advertising

[bazorg]

Unlimited* Internet Access for only US$29.999

* - Bullshit!

Verizon "unlimited"

[harvey the nerd]

"Unlimited", 5 GB means old V lawyers have a 32 bit overflow "feature" in their vocabulary, rounded up, 2^32 = 4294967296. V is also for Verizon.

shhhh!

[mungtor]

You'll get in the way of a lot of perfectly good ranting about how corporations suck, Verizon in particular sucks, lawyers suck, and the government sucks for allowing them all to get away with their crimes against humanity. If people don't vent their anger here it will just build up until they snap and finally walk outside. That's the last thing anybody wants.

Re:.ca

[aicrules]

You hit 120GB a month? Do you remember what the outside looks like?

This is 2007.

[MarkByers]

Paying for movies is so old-fashioned. I don't think people do it any more. If you are downloading more the 5GB then you are definitely a pirate.

But take comfort in the fact that you are helping stop global warming.

Re:.ca

[Gordonjcp]

Do you remember what the outside looks like?

Of course he does, he's got all these movies of it...

Re:There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch

[hotdiggitydawg]

Unlimited [reference.com] is not a term that is ambiguous in any sense. If you can take it to mean anything other tha "without limit" then you aren't speaking English.

Re:assumed legitimate traffic.

[Gr8Apes]

Someone who's IM'ing 13.5 GB/Month won't be in college long...

But if you're using a video IM at 640x480 @ 30fps to chat daily with your sick grand aunt....

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Re:What the hell?

[bberens]

A true geek would write a script to forward all of their e-mails to themselves after 29 days so that the e-mail all remains fresh.

Re:What the hell?

[jimstapleton]

No, a true geek would set up something involving standard tag lines, so that people could have the email auto-shunted to certain folders.

It would then allow sign up, and send 1.8GB-1.9GB of email per month distributed evenly over each day.

Make sure verizon is /forced/ into providing their promised deal.

New! The "Infinity Plus One" plan from Verizon!

[jpellino]

Even better than unlimited - this one goes to 11 !

You get the idea.

"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the America public." - H. L. Mencken

Re:Ah memories...

[aadvancedGIR]

No matter its size, when correctly used, a HD can have only 3 states: still in the box, almost full and dead.

Re:What the hell?

[Anonymous Coward]

A true geek would write a script to forward all of their e-mails to themselves after 29 days so that the e-mail all remains fresh.

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Re:If it has a fixed cost, it has a fixed limit

[teh_chrizzle]

People just want truthful advertising.

truthful advertising... that's a good one. it's also an oxymoron, like "political integrity" or "reality television".

Re:I once got paid to quit

[crabpeople]

Yeah we all saw that episode. Was your friends name homer simpson?

They might argue that...

[Arceliar]

Unlimited could be short for UNbearably LIMITED...

And anyone with gspace installed could easily get past their 5G limit using only email in under a week.

Re:Ah memories...

[clambake]

No matter its size, when correctly used, a HD can have only 3 states: still in the box, almost full and dead.

Hey, "almost full" and "dead" are NOT mutually exclusive!

Re:What the hell?

[ncc74656]

No no, a true geek would just get an email account from another provider.

The true geek runs his own mail server.