U.S. carriers aren’t offering truly limited data packages, most of them did previously but over the past couple of years they have been trying to get them off of the unlimited data plans and towards tiered options. AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint all throttle users on unlimited plans who consume heavy data but Verizon has confirmed that it won’t be doing what its rivals are doing.
This announcement from Big Red comes merely a week or so after it confirmed a $20 price hike for customers on its unlimited data plan, it was yet another move by the carrier to try and get people off the grandfathered unlimited data plans which it’s no longer offering.
Verizon chief financial officer Fran Shammo confirmed in an interview that Verizon won’t be slowing down heavy users on its unlimited data plans, “For a customer who signed up for unlimited, they’re going to get unlimited,” he said, adding that Verizon is “not in the habit” of throttling customers.
That said, the threshold set by the likes of AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint is quite high before users on unlimited data plans start to get throttled. Usually it kicks in after 20GB of mobile data has been consumed in one billing cycle, that’s significantly more than what the average user consumes in one month.
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