Yes you're being throttled. Even on the most expensive plans you still need to enable HD streaming in account settings. Also I don't think you can stream in full 4K as I think the cap is about 10mbps.

https://www.verizon.com/support/unlimited-ultimate-faqs/

What streaming quality does my phone get with Unlimited Ultimate?

With Unlimited Ultimate, video streams at up to 720p on 5G Ultra Wideband or up to 480p otherwise. And when turned on in your settings, video can stream at:

Up to 4K Ultra High Definition when you're using our 5G Ultra Wideband network on a capable device. Up to 1080p when you're on 5G or 4G LTE.

Unlimited plus doesn’t have throttled data.

Unlimited plus is unlimited and un-throttled data.

Short answer: unlimited FAST data on that specific smartphone. If you tether (hotspot), you get 30 GBs of FAST data, then unlimited useable slow data, to use your terms.

30gb of hot spot are included, but unlimited plus data speeds are not throttled. Only unlimited welcome

It’s unlimited premium (fast) data.

They don't want you to know because they don't want customer to know. That's also probably why they re-named the switch from premium video to vaguely labeled "unlimited data."

No, you’re thinking of the hotspot. It’s completely unlimited fast speeds

Unlimited fast data. You never have to worry about being throttled or deprioritized.

HOWEVER, you have to turn on faster video streaming. If you don't turn this on your video is limited to 480p when on 5G/LTE (2Mbps.). Verizon has this off by default and you have to op-in. Also if you ever change plans remember to go in and turn this back on.

1. Sign in to the Verizon app
2. Select Plans
3. Select your Line (if you have more than one)
4. Scroll all the way down to the bottom
5. Turn on "Unlimited data" (it is off by default.). https://i.imgur.com/7mvJflf.png

The "Learn More" link below it explains what this does. https://i.imgur.com/OVuVHDK.png

• Unlimited Plus: Stream 4K on 5GUW and "720p on 5G/LTE" (3.8 Mbps from my tests)
• Unlimited Ultimate: Stream 4K on 5GUW and "1080p on 5G/LTE" (10 Mbps from my tests)
• Test video streaming speed speed at fast.com

Unlimited data and unlimited speed are not the same thing

Unlimited just hotspot is deprioritized after u use ur allowance

they don't slow down speeds, but they will email you if you go over 900 GB per month.

It's unlimited.

It’s unlimited.

Most of the time I'm connecting to towers with 400-650Mbps and that's way more then I'll ever need on the 5GUW. The few times I was at some international airports here in the states, I've gotten 3gbps. It's wild.

wow nice! wish i got those speeds!!!

Don’t forget to enable improved video streaming in the app so video resolution isn’t crappy.

I ported in. Apparently voice texting likes to make me sound like I’m having a slurring stroke lol

Also if u can't pay ur bill, they will cover it for u for 3 months!! I'm so happy I found them

There is no GB allotment before speeds slow down, it's based on the usage in the area.

If you're on the Unlimited Plus plan, you're considered a preferred subscriber, you're not exposed to those congestion slow downs.

On the Unlimited Welcome plan, you have the potential for slower speeds when there is congestion or usage in that area that exceeds what the network can readily handle at that point in time. There is no guarantee it would be experienced at the same time every day, because peak hours and usage fluxuates.

It depends on the plan and type of device you have. There are multiple options.

600 to the Home will shape up to the rise at 100 but the jet plan will be home faster until you break out of the path.

Is Verizon this congested? I keep seeing these kind of posts. I understand all networks have congestion and location matters but it seems Verizon has this the worst out of all.

No, that's just congestion. That's normal on Verizon and will be until the C-Band build is dense in your area.

The premium plan gives you a higher priority for what capacity is left, but doesn't guarantee you a speed.

In that same area yours is really slow, there's going to be someone on a lower priority plan that cannot access data at all when you're using it as you've paid for the higher priority than them.

That's called network congestion

They’re not actively lowering your speeds. It’s congestion.

This dude thinking his unlimited plus plan gives him the right to defy the laws of physics 😂

As long as it is just mobile data that you’ve used on your device you should be able to contact Support they will remove any sort of cap that it gets put on there. They’re not trying to stop people from using unlimited data on their phones. They’re trying to stop people from exploiting the service by putting it into external networking equipment and trying to take advantage of it that way. When you use a significant amount of data very quick it could in theory be you exploiting it so that’s why they put the cap on there.

I don’t believe there is a “hard limit”. However if you suddenly use a lot of data all at once in one day I believe it flags the system I was able to use 890 GB before I got the speed cap at 1.5mbps up and down. However I downloaded 2 box sets of tv shows 230GB of data within 2 hours. I contacted support they removed the cap and I was back to full speed with no issues since.

Just depends on network conditions. Situations can differ. They basically can do whatever they need/want to "manage the network".

High usage customers should probably not do annual payment plans.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoContract/s/DZlsOBCTG4

He said they refreshed his line so I’d assume so. They quietly throttle to 1.5mbps after a certain point but they’ll take it away if you reach out to them 

Entitlement. Some people think they are actually entitled an unlimited amount of data for $45/month. The terms clearly say that if you are in the top 5% of users you will get throttled.

The answer is quite simple. People who uses a lot of GBs tend to use the hotspot to fulfill their home internet need.

It's just that if you become dissatisfied, for whatever reason(throttling, depriortization, etc), you've paid a lot of non-refundable money, if you decide not to stay with Visible.

No reason to think one would be treated differently(monthly, annual), if "network management" came into play.

I guess some people don’t have WiFi at home

It's in the terms that you acknowledge to have fully read.

Answer is very coverage area, specific tower, season (tourist, event), time of day dependent. All the answers in the world from who knows where will not help as much as trying yourself. If speed is that important use a cellphone that supports the latest 5G band aggregation for all US carriers, WiFi 7, Dual SIM Active + toggles in Settings that allow combining multiple cellular / Wi-Fi networks for fastest speeds, AND buy 2 MVNO cellular Promo plans roaming TMO & Verizon- should total $30-50 depending on how well you sleuth promos & if you pay yearly.

I do be streaming a lot. No affects whatsoever. There's a toggle in the app to turn on 1080p. Speeds are unlimited. Since I get UW where I'm at

https://preview.redd.it/h72tb8cm974f1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=78e7de6ba551672555d6cd95c82c94c51fcec952

I jumped from total wireless, tw didnt offer watch add on

I've used 700gb a few months ago , no issues

Yeah I use it for Xbox series X call of duty modern warfare 2 multiplayer it doesn’t buffer

This is awesome info, thank you for testing!

This is a copy of the OP's original post in case they decide to delete their post/account so that others searching can find it later:

Recap: Yesterday Verizon refreshed their postpaid Tablet plans, old plans got grandfathered, and there are three new plans: Welcome ($20), Unlimited ($40), and Unlimited Plus ($50). The price here is before the 50% connected device discount.

I made a post about this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/verizon/comments/1mqjys6/new_tablet_plans_lineup_the_welcome_plan_has_only/

Since this post will become very technical, I posted it in this subreddit. Also, my findings show some new network management strategies that I haven't seen in Verizon’s network before.

Ok so let's start. I switched my grandfathered plan to Unlimited Plus, and later to Welcome. Sadly I lost my grandfathered plan permanently. Since Unlimited (the mid-tier one) has the same video streaming quality as Welcome, and the same network priority as Unlimited Plus, I didn't test that.

Unlimited Plus: 40Mbps streaming, applies to 5G UW, 5G, and LTE

First thing on Unlimited Plus, the video streaming in 5G UW is now throttled! Now to 40Mbps on Fast.com. It was throttled on old tablet plans and current phone plans on 5G UW.

However, in LTE, the streaming now is also 40Mbps. Which makes this plan the only Verizon plan that can stream 4K on LTE.

If you read the fine print very closely, it matches Verizon's terms. Under the 5G/4G LTE section, it mentions that:

>(7) video typically streams up to 1080p, and up to 4K UHD when toggled on by user on Unlimited Plus plan (capable device required).

Welcome: 4Mbps streaming, applies to 5G UW, 5G, and LTE; And deprioritization to 5G UW confirmed

On the other hand, although the Welcome plan supports 5G UW, and does show the 5G UW icon on my iPad, the streaming speed is capped at 4Mbps on all networks, including 5G UW.

For some reason I can still run full speed after 2GB of data, and didn’t go down to 1Mbps. This does not match what Verizon’s plan page or fine print says. Either my provisioning is glitched or Verizon’s page is wrong. I am able to run Speedtest for more than 10GB, still full speed on both 5G UW and LTE.

However, my Welcome plan is deprioritized after 2GB, even on 5G UW. Here are 5G UW Speedtest results at my home, same place, same hour (I also ran the each combination multiple times, and then shuffled, to get the most accurate data. The result are always same):

• iPad: 400–500Mbps
• iPhone: 500–600Mbps
• iPad + iPhone: iPad got 60Mbps, iPhone got 500Mbps
• iPad + iPhone + iPhone: iPad got 12Mbps, iPhones each got around 300Mbps

* Two iPhones are on Verizon's QCI8 plan

Similar finds in LTE also, but that's unsurprising since Verizon always have prioritization in LTE.

Before this tablet release, usually the Verizon plans that supported 5G UW can run on QCI8, and they had basically unlimited premium 5G UW data and never deprioritized on 5G UW. Now the new tablet plans are quite different. Based on the fine print, the mid-tier and high-tier tablet plans will also suffer deprioritization after 50 or 100GB on 5G UW and 5G UW usage will counts to the premium data bucket, unlike before.

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