Verizon Lies About “Unlimited” Plans

Here’s something that can kill the mobile media revolution quickly.

Epicenter, Wired’s business blog, is reporting that Verizon limits data transfers to 5GB per month on all broadband plans that use their third-generation EV-DO network.

This applies to laptop plans that let you access the Internet from anywhere, not cell phone plans. Of course, Verizon can limit their service all they want, but they lie and still sell the service as “Unlimited.”

Look at the fine print: Epicenter notes that “Verizon’s ‘unlimited’ plan also bans streaming audio, streaming video, online games, webcam communication, file sharing, and use of the EVDO connection as your primary means of Internet access.” In other words, anything fun.

This highlights just how fragile Verizon’s network is for streaming video, which is why broadcast mobile TV can’t come soon enough. (Broadcast mobile TV signals can be sent to millions of phones without any increased load on their network, but it means we’ll all need to get new phones).

Verizon’s “Unlimited” EVDO Accounts Limited to 5GB/month [Epicenter]

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