Updated Data prioritization policies list of cell phone carriers

[Joe1]

The popular Reddit posting has recently been updated. It lists the data prioritization for most popular cell phone and MVNO plans. Data prioritization comes into play when towers are congested with traffic.
I was on a Verizon QCI-9 MVNO plan and found the data unusable quite often. I changed to a Verizon MVNO on QCI-8 based on this list and my data performance improved significantly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoContract..._prioritization_policies_of_the_carriers_and/

 

[eljefino]

I was at a track meet with my wife-- Imagine nearly 1000 bored people showing up at a field in the exurbs.

She has Visible+, I have regular Visible. Supposedly she has a higher priority but we both got exactly the same terrible service. We had to click a QR code link to buy tickets to the event, and there were dozens of others at the gate trying to get service as well. They wouldn't take cash. What a disaster!

I went to McDonalds and used their wifi, took 30 seconds, had my tickets.

 

[Quattro Pete]

I've got one semi-dumb phone on RedPocket, which supposedly uses QCI9, alas, it's primarily used for voice calls, so the whole data priority thing doesn't really matter.

 

[bullwinkle]

This is why I don’t really rely on mobile data with TF or Tello-I know they’re both buried so deep on the priority list as to be virtually unusable. Phone calls & WiFi only, with an occasional SMS (NO MMS) text thrown in. Or I could spend $1000/year EACH on service I don’t really need!

 

[andrew_j]

I am the bottom tier of Verizon on their Welcome Plan at $30/month/phone.

5g helps with conjestion. It’s awful on LTE in crowded places. Was at 250 kid HS graduation with all families and able to stream daughters announcement to parents .

 

[willbur]

I was at a track meet with my wife-- Imagine nearly 1000 bored people showing up at a field in the exurbs.

She has Visible+, I have regular Visible. Supposedly she has a higher priority but we both got exactly the same terrible service. We had to click a QR code link to buy tickets to the event, and there were dozens of others at the gate trying to get service as well. They wouldn't take cash. What a disaster!

I went to McDonalds and used their wifi, took 30 seconds, had my tickets.

I think they would have to take cash- it says something like "this is legal tender for all debts, public and private" on the bills.

 

[SC Maintenance]

I think they would have to take cash- it says something like "this is legal tender for all debts, public and private" on the bills.

Private businesses are not required to take cash.

I use a card 99% of the time, but refuse to do business with places that will not take cash. But in fairness - kids track meet would likely be an exception for even me.

 

[mk378]

There is no "debt" because no sale has been made yet. The type of payment is an allowed reason to refuse to sell to someone.

 

[SC Maintenance]

There is no "debt" because no sale has been made yet. The type of payment is an allowed reason to refuse to sell to someone.

I bet car dealers using CDK wished they were set up to take cash last week.

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[John105]

I was at a track meet with my wife-- Imagine nearly 1000 bored people showing up at a field in the exurbs.

She has Visible+, I have regular Visible. Supposedly she has a higher priority but we both got exactly the same terrible service. We had to click a QR code link to buy tickets to the event, and there were dozens of others at the gate trying to get service as well. They wouldn't take cash. What a disaster!

I went to McDonalds and used their wifi, took 30 seconds, had my tickets.

or what if you were at a stadium where your mobile tickets had a rolling code that changed every few secs....

 

[John105]

I am the bottom tier of Verizon on their Welcome Plan at $30/month/phone.

5g helps with conjestion. It’s awful on LTE in crowded places. Was at 250 kid HS graduation with all families and able to stream daughters announcement to parents .

I'm at $55...why?

I was at $45 and the plan was eliminated, so my choice was pay $6 more a month for no benefit, or $10 more a month for ultrawideband 5G. I looked at the $4 delta, not the $10/mo more which I was not happy about.

The reason I can't do the $30 plan is I have monthly payments on my iPhone 13 Pro 256 (relax everybody it was $309 brand new without trade, but the catch is the discount to bring it down to $309 is spread over 36 mos). That plan is not allowed on my purchase....

5GUW has hit downloads of 1.3 gbps, nuts (this is beyond what I thought the theoretical is, maybe speedtest was wrong). BUT--upload has never been faster than 70 mbps.

net net is I never hit that so-called congestion deal. How great does it feel? Not very lol

My employer does BYOD so I need it for work. They gave me $140/mo in 2010, but only give me $40/mo today as a stipend. They also provide a hotspot--that has 60gb/mo unlimited, before throttling down.

 

[SHOZ]

I'm on Consumer Cell with ATT tower. I can almost count on limited data service and many times no phone service between 11am and 2pm. I use a 4g Hotspot for internet and it uses the same tower. It's weird as sometimes I can still get internet but no phone service. And if the internet is really slow on the phone, I find disabling the Hotspot WiFi and using the phone data signal works better even at a half a bar phone signal.

 

[willbur]

There is no "debt" because no sale has been made yet. The type of payment is an allowed reason to refuse to sell to someone.

So I guess they they dont want to make sales then. Just standing around

 

[SC Maintenance]

So I guess they they dont want to make sales then. Just standing around

The vast majority will just pay via card instead.

Handling cash for a retailer is a huge cost as well. Employee theft of it is rampant. A friend of mine owned a bar / restaurant years ago. Said that was his biggest issue - employees steeling the cash, especially the bartenders.