ZDNet, September 18, 2011
By James Kendrick

Smartphone customers in the U. S. must be wearing a "slap me" sign on their backs if the latest notification from Verizon is any indication. When Verizon went to tiered data plans that allowed overage fees, those with existing unlimited plans were feeling good as they got grandfathered in. Verizon figured out how to coax those folks onto the tiered plans by promising to throttle the network speed for unlimited plan customers who are in the top five percent of data usage.

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