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by p90x 5609 days ago
"may reduce your data throughput speeds periodically for the remainder of your then current and immediately following billing cycle to ensure high quality network performance for other users at locations and times of peak demand."

"Verizon says it will only do this if you fall in the top 5% of the company's data users"

To me this sounds fair to users and good for business. I'm part of the 95% and would prefer to do business with a company that puts my needs ahead of the 5% heaviest users.

1 comments

Good for business?

<Sarcasm>Yeah, and when those 5% of users quit the service, you can get rid of the next 5%. Keep repeating until you have no customers.</Sarcasm>

You might just end up with less than 20 customers. It realy all depends on whether this is the ceiling of 5% or the floor of it. What is 1.3 customers, anyway?