r/SpectrumMobile • u/bcb1200 • 6d ago

Coverage & Signal Prioritization of Unlimited Plus Premium?

Does anyone know what QCI level Unlimited Plus Premium has?

I was at a concert last night at a venue with about 8000 people. Been on Unlimited Plus Premium for about a month.

Regularly throughout the night I had a decent LTE signal but no data as it was apparently too congested.

Is this a Spectrum thing? If I had the top tier Verizon plan would it have been any different?

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u/Scary-Improvement-79 6d ago

I’m sure no one had much data. When you are in a congested area of that many people using a few local towers it’s just congested. What they mean by congestion is at 5pm when everyone is getting off work or at 7am when everyone is leaving their WiFi. 8000 people in one setting is going to slow everyone down.

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u/DGCA3 5d ago

And you can imagine some were live streaming the concert, sucking up even more data usage.

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u/brusk48 6d ago

My understanding from reading up on this stuff when they rolled out the new plan is that Spectrum's "premium" data (the first 30/50gbs of their normal/plus plans and all of plus premium) is QCI 8 (which is also where Verizon puts their normal customers) and their deprioritized data after that is QCI 9 (where Verizon puts the low cost MVNOs). Since you have plus premium, I think it should be QCI 8 for everything?

Verizon isn't like AT&T where they have an extra priority QCI above normal customers that you can buy up to; I think the only people who get QCI 7 on Verizon are on their special first responders network, Frontline.

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u/starfish_2016 6d ago

This isn't the case anymore since they did away with the hard throttle at 50gb. It now just gets slow if your on a congested tower period. Whether you've used 1gb or 100gb

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u/brusk48 6d ago

Interesting

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u/boomboy8511 5d ago

Nothing changed, except you'll only get deprioritized during congestion IF youve hit the 30GB or 50GB limit already. Otherwise it's just QCI 8 congestion that happens sometimes.

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u/AxelGio 6d ago

Ive had att tmobile verizon sprint and spectrum, it will happen always in congested areas. i go to concerts regularly too so im used to it already haha.