[X4U] Re: Verizon Wireless Internet Service

[Geoffrey Loeffler]

  My present provider is StarBand run by Spacenet, their limit is 1  
Megabyte a week on a rolling average. Basically 4 Gigs a month,  
really less as they  throttle you at about 600 to 700 MBs in a week  
at 750Kbs Down Load and 125 Kbs upload. I am paying $89 a month, a  
lower home level rate is available for $49.00 which gives you 500 Kbs  
Downloads and the same, 1 Megabyte a week on a rolling average of 600  
to 700 MBs a week.

Basically 4 Gigs a month, but really hit 600 to 700 and your  
throttled down to 100 Kbs until you fall below the 600 MB rolling  
average in 7 day average.

StarBand offers a higher rate for 139.00 you get 2 megs a weeks at  
1.6 at D/L but so far nobody is really cooking, this is the Nova 1000  
and 1500 models, which is only for new customers, not present ones.  
The few who have got there new modems for about $300 and a $150  
rebate have not got service really going.

Standard broadband agreements for Verzion and every other satellite  
or wireless operators that I know, have a Fair Access Policy or FAP.

They try to say it is set up so someone can't hog all the bandwidth.  
Sometimes the wireless broadband sellers can be loose with it, to  
attract customers. As the new customers arrive, the transponders on  
the satellite fill up and to keep from using more transponders, they  
start enforcing the the FAP which is way hidden. Nobody at Verizon  
knew about it and said oh that's if you run a server or something  
because the airtime is free and it is. However, When I pointed out 5  
Gigabytes is a monthly limit, they were all surprised. I suppose most  
people use it as a back up.

What it really does is limit the user to a certain amount of Band  
Width per month. In Verizon's case it's 5 Gigs is nothing. You have  
to dig deep to find it in the contract , but having been on satellite  
for 3 years, I know it's a big issue. 100 Megs these days is nothing.  
I do believe that the cell phones will eat the satellite services up,  
they had their chance but Cell is already half the cost for more  
speed and larger download limits,




Geoffrey Loeffler
geoffrey at alaska.net



On Jan 31, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Jerry K wrote:

> You mean an SLA (Service Level Agreement)?  That's typically done  
> at a business level, and there are typically fees associated with  
> an SLA.
>
> Are you doing something like this with your provider on a personal/ 
> home level?
>
> Jerry
>
>
> Technophobic_Tom at comcast.net wrote:
>> Geoffrey wrote:
>>> Verizon offers a 5 Gig plan...1.6 to 1 m.b. down load....
>>> Just wondered if anyone had used Verizons Broadband
>>> service for internet use and had any feed back on it.
>> If you try it, make sure you get an agreement such that if it  
>> doesn't perform to some criteria, which you specify, they must  
>> void the contract and return all your money. It can be so arranged.
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