Verizon Starts Throttling Heavy Data Users
Following theirannouncementmade in February that the company would bethrottling data for the top 5% of its users,Verizonhas officially started what they call “Network Optimization Practices,” just in time for the iPhone 5 launch sometime next month. These “Network Optimization Practices” consist ofreducing the data speedof the top 5% of Verizon users, a.k.a those who are on an unlimited data plan and use more than 2GB of data per month… Verizon sent the following email to its customer: “Beginning 9/15, we will start identifying customers who meet these criteria and will expand to others in the base after customer communications are completed....