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Verizon has been the only carrier to slow your throughput or send you a
termination letter for high bandwidth usage.
Sprint has true "unlimited" data (so far). Sprint also has slightly
better high-speed EVDO coverage for data, Verizon has a little better
coverage for voice and the slower 1xRTT data connection. I have used
Sprint EVDO as my sole internet for a couple years now (with a KR-1
router and multiple computers). What I tell people asking for
recommendations is, use Sprint if they cover the areas you need to
travel, otherwise go with Verizon. I don't believe any of the other
carriers come even close to Sprint and Verizon for high speed coverage,
AT&T/Cingular is rolling out their HSPDA, but at is way behind the other
two.
Cole
Jeffrey Siegel wrote:
>>> I would expect the cellular carriers to attempt to stop
>>> the ability for multiple computers to share a single
>>> cellular connection in the future.
>>>
>>>
>
>
>> ...is that speculation based on industry knowledge or a healthy
>> suspicion of corporate bean counter mentality?
>>
>>
>
> As wireless access expands, it starts adding real costs to the cellular
> providers or else everyone's performance decreases (or gets terminated).
> Because of this, all of the providers have started adding new provisions in
> the agreement that you agree to but never read. For example, here are a
> couple of goodies from Verizon's data card agreement (although I'm not
> picking on them - all of them are doing this):
>
> - "NationalAccess/BroadbandAccess is for individual use only"
>
> - "While most common uses for Internet are permitted by your Data Plan,
> there are certain uses that cause extreme network capacity issues and
> interference with the network. These are not uses intended by our Data
> Access plans and are therefore prohibited."
>
> - "If usage exceeds 5 GB per line during any billing period, we reserve the
> right to reduce throughput speeds of any application that would otherwise
> exceed such speed to a maximum of approximately 200 Kbps. These speeds are
> subject to change, in our reasonable discretion, in order to address network
> issues."
>
> - "Accordingly, we reserve the right to deny, modify or terminate service,
> without notice, to anyone we believe is using Data Plans or Features in any
> manner that adversely impacts our network or service levels, and we also
> reserve the right to terminate service upon expiration of the Customer
> Agreement term."
>
>
> This is from Verizon's 12/21/07 agreement.
>
> The first thing that will start happening is that applications like Skype
> will stop working over unlimited data plans. They can do that very easily
> and I've read about it happening already in some locations. It wouldn't be
> hard for them to limit network use to only a single computer if they wanted
> to.
>
>
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