[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] newuser134:
"A little more complicated"? Please! Do you really know how wireless transmission works? Have you ever been limited by your router's bandwidth limitation when you're using your home internet? Most 802.11 g routers have a 50 mbps limit, most home internet services until recently were limited to 10-20. Recently you can get 50-100 Mbps residential service, and newer N routers can easily handle 150 Mbps (each WiFi channel is about 10 MHz wide and can handle 50 Mbps or more, cell towers have way more spectrum, not to mention LTE has multiple connections at once, hence why it's so fast) I promise you you will saturate your line before you do your WiFi router, so wireless bandwidth is not as big an issue as you think, and how often do you even saturate your residential service line? If you notice, what makes you reach the "limit" is not how much data you use, it's how fast you're using it, you're instant transfer speed. Copper lines or fiberoptic lines don't have a max data/month limitation, they have a max speed capacity limitation. If you use all your data past midnight to 5 am every day, when no one else is using it, it would never bog down anything, so that should tell you how stupid data caps are. They can measure how much data you use, but not your instantaneous transfer speed, that's why they use data amounts. A truly good tier model would be to charge you for the speed you have, not for how much data you use. It's just a way to charge people more money, it is not a true measure of anything, it is not comparable to kWh of electric energy you use with the electric company, you're not paying for the energy you use here. Have you ever heard your cable company claim that you're making their line bog down cuz you use 5 gigs in one month? No one said anything is an infinite resource, but if you're gonna tell me the land line is limited, get a grip of what that limit is, don't just say things without understanding it first.

If you say Verizon has to negotiate landline bandwidth with local line providers, and your solution to "irresponsible" cell data use is to use WiFi, wouldn't that WiFi traffic use the SAME local landline once the data reaches your router? Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of freeing the "limited" landline?

Verizon may have you convinced "abusive users" are the reason they may have optimizations on their network use, but brainwashed users are the reason they get away with the bull**** to begin with, how does it lower the cell site or landline load if you pay them more?

If you really trust the choices Verizon makes, how do you explain the locked bootloader, taking away our 50 GB of free dropbox space, the "upgrade fee", paying for detailed billing, or other stupid little fees? That all must really help take the load off of their network too, right? You trust their honest judgement, right? Isn't it obvious they're trying to make more money from you in every possible way they are able to? If nothing else, the bootloader story should really show their true intentions and how most of the things they tell their customers aren't really correct. I just don't see why anyone would join this forum if they think Verizon's practises are so wonderful.