AT&T POSTED A DATA THROTTLING POLICY FOR UNLIMITED DATA PLAN USERS.
HERE'S WHAT THEY SHARED ON THEIR SITE:
Do you have an unlimited data plan? If so, we have information to help you manage your account if you use more than 3GB, which means you are in the top 5% of data users in our network. If you have a 4G LTE Smartphone with monthly data usage over 5GB, you'll also be interested in this information. You can check your usage for this month by dialing *data# on your mobile phone.
If you have one of our tiered data plans, this information will not affect you.
Background: In response to soaring mobile broadband usage and the limited availability of wireless spectrum, we implemented a network management program back in 2011 to help ensure the best possible mobile broadband experience for all of our customers.
Here's an excerpt fro
post:
Faced with mounting public pressure,
AT&T
(
) has modified its plan to slow down service for customers with unlimited data plans whose data use tops 3 gigabytes.
Users who had complained that their service was throttled without warning will now receive a text message when they near their limit, according to the
. The action will not take place for several days.
Previously, AT&T reduced data speeds for the 5% of unlimited users who used the most data. People reportedly saw their service get throttled when they used about 2 gigabytes of data. AT&T's critics have argued that the policy is unfair -- an argument that was backed up by a recent independent study.
"There is virtually no difference in data consumption between those on unlimited and those on tiered plans -- and yet the unlimited consumers are the ones at risk of getting their service turned off," according to Validas, a wireless analysis firm,
"So it's curious that anyone would think the throttling here represents a serious effort at alleviating network bandwidth issues."
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