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AT&T to Throttle Unlimited Data Plan Customers Starting in October
Starting October 1, smartphone customers with unlimited data plans may experience reduced speeds once their usage in a billing cycle reaches the level that puts them among the top 5 percent of heaviest data users. These customers can still use unlimited data and their speeds will be restored with the start of the next billing cycle. Before you are affected, we will provide multiple notices, including a grace period.Early AT&T iPhone customers were offered an unlimited data plan for their devices. Even after AT&T stopped offering an unlimited plan, they allowed existing customers to retain their unlimited plan through device upgrades.
This change will affect any of those users who still have an unlimited plan and are considered to be in the "top 5 percent of heaviest data users". For those users, download speeds will be reduced until the next billing month. By definition, this should affect 5% of users each month.
AT&T claims that users can still "send or receive thousands of emails, surf thousands of Web pages and watch hours of streaming video every month and not be in the top 5 percent of data users."
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111 months ago
I am one of the grandfathered in people and my biggest problem with this is.
How much puts me in that top 5%? Don't just start sending me texts when I get close to it, tell me what qualifies for that top 5%. It seems asinine that I have a unlimited plan and they can just slow down my speed at their whim.
I'm going to start keeping a record for when my service isn't usable and then I'll just deduct that out of my bill at the end of the month and we'll see how that goes over...:rolleyes:
How much puts me in that top 5%? Don't just start sending me texts when I get close to it, tell me what qualifies for that top 5%. It seems asinine that I have a unlimited plan and they can just slow down my speed at their whim.
I'm going to start keeping a record for when my service isn't usable and then I'll just deduct that out of my bill at the end of the month and we'll see how that goes over...:rolleyes:
111 months ago
What concerns me is what if the 5% limit is less than 2GB? might I be paying $5 more per month and getting throttled before someone with the 2GB plan?
I thought 98% of their users used less then 2GB per month? That would mean the top 5% would include people who used less than 2GB.
The top 5% part is what stinks. They should come out and say this is 4GB or 5GB or whatever.
I thought 98% of their users used less then 2GB per month? That would mean the top 5% would include people who used less than 2GB.
The top 5% part is what stinks. They should come out and say this is 4GB or 5GB or whatever.
111 months ago
Go ahead AT&T, throttle us. When I actually do get service on my phone it's either two bars of E or one bar of 3G and it's slow as molasses. I've done speed tests on my phone and it's barely at 700 kbit/sec.
Do you really need to throttle people when your service is slow as crap and spotty/unreliable already? And for this we pay $30/month. Very nice.
Do you really need to throttle people when your service is slow as crap and spotty/unreliable already? And for this we pay $30/month. Very nice.
111 months ago
Just download less :/ use free open wifi more. I am sorry but some people must really abuse their downloads to go over some caps.
Open WiFi is a thing of the past.
111 months ago
I don't really come close to hitting any data caps but I still ***** hate them with a passion :mad:
Don't sell something initially as unlimited and then change the rules later on
And you can certainly blow your LTE/4G crap out yer rear.
Don't sell something initially as unlimited and then change the rules later on
And you can certainly blow your LTE/4G crap out yer rear.
111 months ago
I would LOVE to be throttled! That would mean I actually maintained connection long enough to use the data at a high speed to be in the top x% of users.
Counting down my last month until I switch to Verizon...
And you don't think that Verizon will do the same? Oh, wait...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379296,00.asp
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