14 DAY TRIAL // Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is set to put in place a new series of measures aimed at ensuring that its network would be able to continue to offer a great experience for the future.
Most probably aimed at keeping its network alive even after the Apple iPhone would arrive on its network, the new measures would include new network management practices, as well as the reduction of data speeds for users who eat too much data on the carrier's network.
“As part of our continuing efforts to provide the best experience to our more than 94 million customers, Verizon Wireless is introducing two new network management practices,” the wireless carrier notes in a document available here (via BGR)
“We are implementing optimization and transcoding technologies in our network to transmit data files in a more efficient manner to allow available network capacity to benefit the greatest number of users,” the carrier continues.
Among these techniques, the carrier notes caching less data and using less capacity, as well as the more appropriate sizing of videos on mobile phones. The carrier adds: “the optimization process is agnostic to the content itself and to the website that provides it.”
“While we invest much effort to avoid changing text, image, and video files in the compression process and while any change to the file is likely to be indiscernible, the optimization process may minimally impact the appearance of the file as displayed on your device,” Verizon states.
But this is not all, as the company also plans on periodically reducing the data throughput speeds of the top 5 percent of Verizon Wireless data users, in an attempt to reduce network usage and to ensure that the rest of the users enjoy a great experience on the carrier's airwaves.
According to Verizon, the speed reductions would affect a user's “current and immediately following billing cycle.”
The carrier also stresses on the fact that this measure is meant to ensure that the rest of the users (95 percent of all Verizon customers) are not affected by the “inordinate data consumption” of a small number of users.