Some rural Verizon Unlimited subscribers are getting the boot from Big Red

Verizon Unlimited is supposed to give subscribers unlimited data with a couple of provisos. When a subscriber's data consumption reaches 22GB for the month, his or hers service can be throttled to a lower speed. That happens only during periods when there is traffic congestion at the cell tower they are using. And if they use more than 10GB of 4G LTE data while tethering, future use of this feature is limited to 3G speeds for the balance of the month.

For some Verizon customers in rural areas of the country, there seems to be a third way to lose unlimited 4G LTE service. Some of these rural ...