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[–] A6-EGO 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Although this is definitely a dick move on Verizon's part, what the fuck are people doing when they are going through 200 gigs of data on their phone?

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[–] Rakosman 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

What does it matter? They're not going to use up all the internet or something dumb like that. If there was a (ideally outside party) study demonstrating that it was actually impeding other people's ability to use the network, then I could agree that it's a reasonable move. Until then, it's just another example of greed at the expense of the consumers.

The Internet is reliant on instantaneous throughput, not aggregate data transferred over a period of time. It should be irrelevant how much data someone uses. You'd probably have to be in the multi-terabyte range to have a reasonable argument that you're congesting the network, as that would be constant transfer at high speeds.

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[–] A6-EGO ago 

Oh I'm not blaming the users in any way, if they are paying for unlimited data then they should certainly get it. I just fail to understand how someone can use that much data on their phone. I'm on a 50 gig plan and the maximum I've managed to use is 22 gigs.

I agree entirely with what you are saying, I just don't understand how someone can use that much data.