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"  (Photo Credit: Chris Hondros/Newsmakers/Getty Images) Verizon&amp;#039;s new motto: Everyone else is doing it, so why can&amp;#039;t we? In a response to the FCC&amp;#039;s concerns about its plans to throttle 4G LTE customers with unlimited data plans, Verizon argues that all four major U.S. carriers do the same thing. Verizon CEO Daniel Mead also said the letter from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler was &amp;quot;incorrect&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;surprising: considering the FCC doesn&amp;#039;t seem to have a problem when other carriers throttle data.  However, only Verizon and AT&amp;amp;amp;T signed the so-called &amp;quot;700 Mhz C Block&amp;quot; rules in 2008 when they bought additional wireless spectrum at auction. These rules state that the companies cannot &amp;quot;deny, limit, or restrict the ability of their customers to use the devices and applications of their choice.&amp;quot; Only Verizon promised to uphold the provision (AT&amp;amp;amp;T never publicly announced it would do so). Verizon has an answer to that question as well, saying, &amp;quot;\u2026neither the C block rules nor the Open Internet rules requires any particular minimum speeds, so long as providers are transparent with customers.&amp;quot; Verizon will start throttling users who use more than 4.7 GB per month; you can track your data usage on the company&amp;#039;s website. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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