Individual files can’t exceed 10GB, and you can only upload 50GB per day. Verizon will continue to offer its group unlimited plan for $19.99 per month for up to five people, who each get their own cloud storage account.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23962337/verizon-cloud-unlimited-individual-plan

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Verizon really doesn’t know what it’s getting into do they?

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At 50gb a day/10gb file limit, I doubt they are worried about abuse. Theyll just find some reason to cut service furst

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Pretty sure they already throttle the connection to 60 kB/s if they know you’re using it as a Hotspot.

I pay extra for the high speed Hotspot plan but I think it only gives me 10 or 20 GB then it throttles again.

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*Challenge accepted*

3 days later

Headline - Verizon now implements significant data caps on their new unlimited plans

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There’s always going to be language in the usage agreement that says “unlimited” is interpreted as being “within reason” at the discretion of Verizon to determine what’s reasonable.

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3 days is too much tbh…

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They have a very strange definition of “unlimited”, because those are some pretty significant “limits”… for an “unlimited” plan…

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I mean for most people this should work fine but it seems they have no initial cap. So it is pretty likely it will take days or even weeks for many people to fully transition (or years when you are a data hoarder). Also I think a weekly or monthly limit would be better as it is pretty likely IMO that will occasionally need more than 50GB even as a rather casual user.

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Cool. Let’s check back in in 3 months.

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50GB x 30 days = 1.5 terabytes per month x 12 = 18 terabytes per year x infinite number of users = updated terms of service that states “unlimited storage BUT NOT LIKE THAT YOU UNWASHED HORDES OF HOARDERS”.

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