As the first response said, you're only supposed to get throttled. I think it's supposed to drop to 128 kbps. My wife called and confirmed that a user gets throttled and not charged for going over. That would be a major conflict of interest if they automatically charged someone. Everything Verizon does on their data is related to the fact that they rent their frequency from the govt and can't get away with some of the things they tried to do.

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Posted by UltimaParadox

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Posted on 2/12/17 at 12:19 am to airfernando

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Everything Verizon does on their data is related to the fact that they rent their frequency from the govt and can't get away with some of the things they tried to do.

Every wireless carrier buys their spectrum at auction. Besides the net neutrality rules, and the rule that forced Verizon to allow tethering. I am unaware of any restrictions that were placed specifically on Verizon by the FCC.

The only reason Verizon no longer charges for overage is because of all of their competitors stopped doing it.

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Posted by mdomingue

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Posted on 2/12/17 at 9:08 am to airfernando

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Everything Verizon does on their data is related to the fact that they rent their frequency from the govt

Everyone does that for frequencies in the commercial spectrum. I don't think the government regulate how you charge people to use your licensed frequencies.

I haven't look at my data plan recently to see if it changed but I originally signed an agreement with Verizon stating that if I exceeded my agreed upon data limit, I had to pay $15/G for excess data used. And anytime I am approaching my limit I get notified with an option to up it by 2G for $10.

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