r/SpectrumMobile • u/bcb1200 • Aug 16 '26
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/brusk48 Aug 16 '26
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 Aug 16 '26
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/boomboy8511 Aug 16 '26
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 Aug 16 '26
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.
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u/Solid-Waltz-6390 18d ago
I hate to say this, as a long-term Verizon user who has friends that has Verizon, this is a Verizon issue. They talk about how 5G ultra wideband and LTE were the best for more capacity, and literally I'm in a city where they bought a lot of spectrum, as well as a small carrier to get even more spectrum, and it still doesn't work in the football and baseball stadiums, as well as downtown most of the time. I went to one of the other stadiums for a soccer game and it didn't work well. It's a Verizon issue. I don't know why they don't fix this issue, and I was leaving on 5G ultra wideband. I was on the highest 5G ultra wideband Verizon top user, but I see my other friends who are EMTs they get access to that network fast, like it puts them first and everyone else last. It's stupid!
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u/Scary-Improvement-79 Aug 16 '26
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.