Sprint To Impose 5GB Monthly EVDO Cap

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Sprint To Impose 5GB Monthly EVDO Cap
300MB per month when you're off the network...
09:03AM Tuesday May 20 2008 by Karl
tags: business · wireless · bandwidth · caps · Sprint Mobile Broadband
Tipped by drew

When comparing Sprint and Verizon's EVDO service, Verizon usually came up short, given their 5GB monthly cap, and terms of service that restricts everything but browsing and e-mail. However, with Sprint suffering through a rocky financial stretch, it looks like their CEO has decided that customers were getting too much, for too little. drew directs my attention to a leaked memo posted to the Sprint users forum, which says monthly caps are coming:
Sprint reserves the right to limit throughput speeds or amount of data transferred and to deny, terminate, modify, or suspend service if usage exceeds 5GB per month in total or 300MB/month while off-network roaming. Check your subscriber agreement rights on Sprint.com.
There's no word yet just how tough enforcement will be. You may have to cross the bandwidth gestapo at Sprint several times during the year in order to have your wrist slapped. Sprint's CEO, in a meeting with employees, apparently told them he believes the caps will only really impact about 1% of their EVDO user base.



I guess they are on par with Verizon now........

 

[bfncbs1]

Sprint To Impose 5GB Monthly EVDO Cap
300MB per month when you're off the network...
09:03AM Tuesday May 20 2008 by Karl
tags: business · wireless · bandwidth · caps · Sprint Mobile Broadband
Tipped by drew

When comparing Sprint and Verizon's EVDO service, Verizon usually came up short, given their 5GB monthly cap, and terms of service that restricts everything but browsing and e-mail. However, with Sprint suffering through a rocky financial stretch, it looks like their CEO has decided that customers were getting too much, for too little. drew directs my attention to a leaked memo posted to the Sprint users forum, which says monthly caps are coming:
Sprint reserves the right to limit throughput speeds or amount of data transferred and to deny, terminate, modify, or suspend service if usage exceeds 5GB per month in total or 300MB/month while off-network roaming. Check your subscriber agreement rights on Sprint.com.
There's no word yet just how tough enforcement will be. You may have to cross the bandwidth gestapo at Sprint several times during the year in order to have your wrist slapped. Sprint's CEO, in a meeting with employees, apparently told them he believes the caps will only really impact about 1% of their EVDO user base.



I guess they are on par with Verizon now........

More on the Sprint 5GB cap.........

Amazing......The one edge they had over VZ was the truly unlimited plan....Sucks to be a Sprint customer now. I swear they are on the verge of falling apart. I guess VZ or ATT will be buying them soon!

Sprint Defends New 5GB EVDO Cap
What are you, some kind of freakish bandwidth glutton?
06:36PM Tuesday May 27 2008 by Karl
tags: business · wireless · bandwidth · Sprint Telecom

Sprint EVDO wireless broadband used to have a competitive edge over Verizon Wireless, because Sprint offered unlimited data consumption. Last week Sprint lost a lot of good will when it was revealed they'd be mirroring Verizon and employing a 5GB monthly cap. Sprint is apparently soothing angry customers by telling them that if they consume more than 5GB worth of data per month, they're a statistical freak. Says the company to BetaNews:
"The vast majority of our current users (about 99.5%) shouldn't be affected. Whether it's the 300 MB roaming limit or the 5 GB limit on total data usage, that's enough data to meet the regular monthly usage habits of almost all of our customers."
More details of the cap are also coming to light. Sprint will check your EVDO consumption every three months, says the company, and only customers who exceed the limit in two out of three consecutive months face account termination. Sprint says they'll be offering users a usage meter starting June 9 -- allowing you insatiable bandwidth vacuums the ability to track your gluttonous ways without running afoul of the Sprint bandwidth gestapo.

 

[clevalley]

Unbelievable... I will drop them immediately if this happens.

 

[Floyd2004]

Unbelievable... I will drop them immediately if this happens.

Come to Verizon if you do. Then you would be "In"

 

[bcp]

I dropped sprint when I realized that they had no service anywhere I went.

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

More on the Sprint 5GB cap.........

Amazing......The one edge they had over VZ was the truly unlimited plan....Sucks to be a Sprint customer now. I swear they are on the verge of falling apart. I guess VZ or ATT will be buying them soon!

Sprint Defends New 5GB EVDO Cap
What are you, some kind of freakish bandwidth glutton?
06:36PM Tuesday May 27 2008 by Karl
tags: business · wireless · bandwidth · Sprint Telecom

Sprint EVDO wireless broadband used to have a competitive edge over Verizon Wireless, because Sprint offered unlimited data consumption. Last week Sprint lost a lot of good will when it was revealed they'd be mirroring Verizon and employing a 5GB monthly cap. Sprint is apparently soothing angry customers by telling them that if they consume more than 5GB worth of data per month, they're a statistical freak. Says the company to BetaNews:
"The vast majority of our current users (about 99.5%) shouldn't be affected. Whether it's the 300 MB roaming limit or the 5 GB limit on total data usage, that's enough data to meet the regular monthly usage habits of almost all of our customers."
More details of the cap are also coming to light. Sprint will check your EVDO consumption every three months, says the company, and only customers who exceed the limit in two out of three consecutive months face account termination. Sprint says they'll be offering users a usage meter starting June 9 -- allowing you insatiable bandwidth vacuums the ability to track your gluttonous ways without running afoul of the Sprint bandwidth gestapo.

I can eat up 5GB a night. Eff Sprint.