Something this country was founded on

Various colonies were founded on religion, but this nation certainly wasn't.

dude seriously what in the fuck, does everyone have a UID >5M now?

300 kb/s sustained 24/7 on your cell phone is a fucking lot of data, man. I wouldn't call any level of use "dickish," but that's a lot of usage. A lot of people in this discussion keep acting like the plan is a home Internet plan. It's not. We're talking about smart phone data plans as per the OP.

As they are frequently in a monopoly situation, I deny that they are either ethically or legally within their rights to cancel a user.

Verizon is ethically and legally required to provide cell phone service to everyone. Got it.

Also, no, wireless carriers are pretty much never in a monopoly situation. Where in the US can you only get cell phone service through Verizon??

The point is, if you get cut off after reaching a limit... it really isn't unlimited, is it?

They aren't getting cut off under the unlimited plan, though. They're being told there is no unlimited plan anymore, so either move to another plan or service will stop. Slashdot has for the entire time I've been a member here been asking for literally this exact thing: truth in advertising. Well this is truth in advertising: there is no more unlimited going forward, so if you don't get a different plan, you will be cut off.

I suppose if you pay for an all-you-can-eat restaurant, you should be allowed to never leave, right? Just camp out there for a year? You've chosen a stupid analogy for your worthless point.

The sig literally refers to a "downvote button." Has Slashdot added one of those recently? I haven't come so often since about 2008 or so, so I am not sure, but isn't it literally impossible to use a downvote button on Slashdot?

It's not a market failure. Frequency bands are a naturally limited resource. A limited resource means inelastic supply, which means as demand goes up, price goes up.

They can cut you off in the middle of a two-year contract.

Which is 100% irrelevant to the subject we're talking about here. Please don't confuse the issues. It ruins the discussion.

And those people are no longer under a long-term contract but are paying month to month. Verizon is well within their rights legally and ethically to cancel a month-to-month agreement at any time. I don't fault them for this at all. It is wholly different from throttling, which is "you get unlimited! except you're not!"

I know you're just joking, but they are giving unlimited. Now they're saying "we aren't going to give you unlimited anymore and we aren't going to charge you anymore." This is a lot more reasonable and totally different from "we're calling it unlimited but not giving you unlimited," which is what the cable companies do.

Your witty statement does not appear on point. Care to explain it?

So, what's their "satisfaction" and will it change daily? Sounds like a contract so bad Netflix shouldn't sign it.

*haughtily makes broad and unsubstantiated assumptions about the text of contracts he's not privy to*

My wife and I are a surgeon and a corporate lawyer. We take some baller vacations. I'd still call $1500 an expensive vaction. I wouldn't call it an expensive vacation abroad because that's really on the low end of things if you're two Americans going abroad on vacation (you're looking at, in a dream of dreams, $1,000 just on the cheapest tickets you can find to a country you picked just because it's the cheapest destination right now, and that's without including food, housing, and things to do—certainly for two people to fly across an ocean for vacation, they'd really have to penny pinch to come in under $1500 total). But it's certainly an expensive vacation if you're just talking about vacations in general.

$5/mo gets you Sling TV, which includes ESPN and something like 15 or 20 other channels streaming online.