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Verizon 3g choking old "unlimited" customers?

mandown

Poopdeck Repost
Jun 1, 2004
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I'm still on an old 3g unlimited plan, but my phone is constantly having issues with web connections. When I stream Pandora, I get about 30 seconds of a song before it cuts the connection and jumps to the next song, and it does this for every song. WTF?
 

binary visions

The voice of reason
Jun 13, 2002
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Verizon would have to be choking 80% of their customers. They just aren't doing that.

They stated that they were going to start throttling the top data users but that was like the top 1% or something pretty small.

Is Pandora the only app you're having trouble with?
 

woodsguy

gets infinity MPG
Mar 18, 2007
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I have had good luck with last.fm (I also think last.fm has a better/larger library than Pandora) and radio hub. The only time I had trouble was on a back road in NH where the signal was very weak/absent. But I have AT&T with only 2g of data. For me its good for about 55 hours a month of streaming music.
 

mandown

Poopdeck Repost
Jun 1, 2004
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Transylvania 90210
Verizon would have to be choking 80% of their customers. They just aren't doing that.

They stated that they were going to start throttling the top data users but that was like the top 1% or something pretty small.

Is Pandora the only app you're having trouble with?
FB is puking up too. I also get a no-connection warning from time to time in other apps.

Will try other music apps.