On the day the iPhone went on sale for Verizon Wireless customers, the carrier delivered a warning to its heaviest data users: Verizon reserves the right to slow down your access speed.
For the subscribers that fall within the top 5% of the network's data users, Verizon said it may reduce their download speeds for the current and subsequent billing cycles, according to a memo on the carrier's website. The company said the slow-down would most likely be periodic and during peak hours.
"Our proactive management of the Verizon Wireless network is designed to ensure that the remaining 95% of data customers aren't negatively affected by the inordinate data consumption of just a few users," the memo said.
But that 5% isn't just a "few" customers: Verizon has 21.5 million smartphone customers, which means the top 1.1 million data users will have their speeds throttled down each month.
Verizon declined to comment, saying the company will let its comments to other news outlets to do the talking. A spokesman told The Wall Street Journal that Thursday's announcement had nothing to do with the iPhone pre-sale that launched on the same day.
"This is clearly something we've been looking at for some time and introducing now," Verizon Wireless spokesman Jeff Nelson told the Journal. "There's nothing magic about the timing.
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