Verizon cancels plans for Network Optimization

I'm truly shocked if this is legit. I haven't found a link straight from Verizon so until I do I won't put much stock into this:

Supposed quote from Verizon reported by droid-life:

Verizon is committed to providing its customers with an unparalleled mobile network experience. At a time of ever-increasing mobile broadband data usage, we not only take pride in the way we manage our network resources, but also take seriously our responsibility to deliver exceptional mobile service to every customer. We

 

If you mean you can no longer get a UDP then yes. As far as completely getting rid of them, well that seems to be the only way. Now how they go about this could be challenging for them.