Bundle Of Joy Reviews Verizon 4G LTE, Doesn’t Such As 4G Outages
Babies don’t like 4G outages any more than adult Verizon customers. At least that’s my recent experience with my son, who does a pretty good job of expressing his feelings toward Verizon when 4G disappears for no apparent reason. People have every right to be upset when Verizon as its 4G LTE service has gone down nationwide four times in less than a year and sporadically disappears from some neighborhoods.
Verizon’s speedy wireless services is absolutely fantastic when it’s working. But outages like the one we saw today are simply too common. Customers who’ve come to rely on the speedy network for both work and play are left in a lurch when they’re not able to use the service they pay for.
Take for example my latest negative experience with Verizon 4G LTE. The other night my son and I were waiting for my wife in a Whole Foods parking lot in Noe Valley, a San Francisco neighborhood that’s blanketed in wireless coverage from all carriers and home to many workers from all the big name Silicon Valley companies, including Google. It was nighttime and my son wanted to watch Goodnight Moon on YouTube. He’s only 10 months old, so he didn’t explicitly ask to watch the video, but I was able to figure it out based on his routine and and the fact he grabbed my Galaxy Nexus and started tapping at the screen. I hit play on the video and waited for quite a while for it to start playing. When it finally did start to play it stuttered. This is when I noticed that we didn’t have 4G service and were relying on Verizon’s 3G service, which wasn’t fast enough to stream YouTube videos at the time.
As you can see in the above video, my son doesn’t like buffering, especially when it’s getting in the way of Goodnight Moon. I pay $60 per month for unlimited 4G LTE service. I don’t expect perfection, but we shouldn’t have to wonder if a YouTube video will stream or won’t stream while we’re using a flagship Android device on what’s supposed to be America’s fastest and most reliable network. Yes, my son survived the ordeal just fine since and I was able to show him the video since I carry an iPhone 4S that runs on AT&T’s 3G network.
There are many, many other Verizon customers who are surely running into far more serious consequences when Verizon’s 4G LTE network goes down. Businessmen miss out on
Bundle Of Joy Reviews Verizon 4G LTE, Doesn’t Such As 4G Outages
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