How do you know that? You have usage data for all at&t customers? If you do then dispute it with at&t. If not, then you can't say that it isn't in the top 5%.
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Top five percent of AT&T smartphone usage and Bandwidth throttling
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That means you are on track for just under 4GB for the month. Makes sense you got the notice.
I think it's time the carriers come out with more Gb tiers. Example 2gb for $25 an then say 4gb for $30 and 6gb for say $40. If they included tethering I would give up my unlimited plan in a heartbeat. Until then I'll stick!
I have the grandfathered unlimited plan and I got the same text last night. I checked my usage and I was just over 2GB. It enfuriates me to no end that they're pulling this crap. Unlimited should be unlimited. This is the first time I've ever received this text.
As was mentioned before...At&t says that 95% of users are under 2gb/month. That means 2.6gb (no matter how far you are into your billing cycle) puts you in the other 5%. And yes, it does blow!
Doesn't make sense to me. On track and currently are different.
I've used 2.5GB in the first 10 days of cycle before and 1GB the rest of month.
6.6GB last month, no messages.
Yay grandfathered Unlimited Plan
6.8 GB for me, month after month since my usage pattern tends to be consistent. No warning from AT&T, no throttling, no problem. Just their friendly and ultra reliable services.
I believe that comment was referred to me. And to everyone that didn't have a chance to read my thread my usage was at 4.9GB when I received the text. Although I still haven't been throttled and my usage is now 5.3GB. I run a speedtest every day just to see and I'm still getting 4Mbps/1Mbps speeds.
I've been consistently using anywhere from 3.5GB-4.5GB per month since around April/May, and I've yet to get any such notification. I'm also grandfathered into AT&T unlimited data.
**knocks on wood**
Granted, I turn cellular data OFF and turn WiFi ON as soon as I get home. However, between a full time supervisory job with varying hours week-to-week, as well as a full load of classes each semester, in a rigorous effort to finish my degree, I'm barely ever home, except to sleep.
As far as AT&T goes, I've got nothing but praise for them at this point. They had to have done something to their coverage in my area because, up until about April of this year, I was never able to get more than 2 bars when 3G was on (I'd get 5 bars on EDGE though). I didn't really care because I have WiFi turned on anyway. But ever since then, I'd get 3-4 bars of 3G on my 3GS, and I now get 3-5 bars on my 4S.
AT&T also let me keep my plan intact, including my 1500 texts/month AND my FAN discount (22%), as well as unlimited data, when I upgraded to the 4S. And when I did my upgrade, I preordered on the morning of the first day, in my local mall's AT&T store, and they had my 4S (64GB) waiting for me on launch day. Activation also went smooth as could be.
Given all this, and the fact that I'm getting data speeds between 3-5 mbps (which is fine with me), I see no reason to leave AT&T anytime soon.
On a side note, how many 4S owners (w/ AT&T) on unlimited plans have noticed their bill states "unlimited 4G data"? I wonder if they'll let us keep our unlimited plans when LTE takes over?
**knocks on wood**
Granted, I turn cellular data OFF and turn WiFi ON as soon as I get home. However, between a full time supervisory job with varying hours week-to-week, as well as a full load of classes each semester, in a rigorous effort to finish my degree, I'm barely ever home, except to sleep.
As far as AT&T goes, I've got nothing but praise for them at this point. They had to have done something to their coverage in my area because, up until about April of this year, I was never able to get more than 2 bars when 3G was on (I'd get 5 bars on EDGE though). I didn't really care because I have WiFi turned on anyway. But ever since then, I'd get 3-4 bars of 3G on my 3GS, and I now get 3-5 bars on my 4S.
AT&T also let me keep my plan intact, including my 1500 texts/month AND my FAN discount (22%), as well as unlimited data, when I upgraded to the 4S. And when I did my upgrade, I preordered on the morning of the first day, in my local mall's AT&T store, and they had my 4S (64GB) waiting for me on launch day. Activation also went smooth as could be.
Given all this, and the fact that I'm getting data speeds between 3-5 mbps (which is fine with me), I see no reason to leave AT&T anytime soon.
On a side note, how many 4S owners (w/ AT&T) on unlimited plans have noticed their bill states "unlimited 4G data"? I wonder if they'll let us keep our unlimited plans when LTE takes over?
Several people who have switched to the HTC Vivid have already reported that their unlimited data plans did switch over to LTE.
Current subscribers to AT&T ~107.7 million
95% of subscribers = ~102 million
I find it really hard to believe that 102 million people use less than 2GB per month.
Thats only if you use netflix without email, music streaming, browsing, updating apps, etc.
95% of subscribers = ~102 million
I find it really hard to believe that 102 million people use less than 2GB per month.
Source - http://www.clicker.com/blog/how-muc...lly-stream-with-atts-new-data-plans-1895.html
Thats only if you use netflix without email, music streaming, browsing, updating apps, etc.
No I didnt get it for tethering.
According to this, we use 12 times more data than the average customer which means the average customer uses only 216mb? Strange.
I bet you are....
If they have 50 million data customers, the top 5% would include 2.5 million people.
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2 gigs is $25, 3 gigs is $35, 4 gigs is $45, 5 gigs is $55, 6 gigs is $65.. etc etc... They have unlimited tiers.
Not only can they modify the contract, but they can simply end it at any time if they chose to by terminating the ETF.
Of course, the easiest thing for AT&T to do would be to stop offering it as a renewal option when people's contracts expire. Within 2 years, nobody is on the unlimited plan anymore.
The really sad part, as I've mentioned elsewhere, is that they are only throttling smartphones that use (what they consider to be) excessive data while non-smartphones can use as much as they want under the unlimited plan they continue to offer them.
Granted, I understand that most non-smartphones won't be using a lot of data, but there's definitely something to be said when an iPhone user barely passes 2GB and gets a letter while I can use over 50GB (non-smartphone/ non-tethering) and they don't bat an eyelash.
I'm at 2.9 with 3 days to go and i got a warning. Funny thing is that when I had my iphone 4 and had tethering and my3g it was alot higher and I never got a warning. I think they are sending at warnings to anyone who reaches a certain threshold even if that does not put you in the top 5% of users. Although maybe with so many people losing there jailbreak to switch to the iphone 4s with no jailbreak tethering or my3g data usage has gone down quite a bit. Either way this sucks
I have a 5 gig plan in Canada on the Rogers network. I have tried to go over and unless I watch netflix all day every day I can't go over. I can't download things over 20mb, it says I need to use wifi. I seriously tried to go over and got 1.7 gigs.
I dont even care about the throttling. AT&T's network is fast enough for my needs as is, and even if it were only 1mbps id still be satisfied. Its just that it seems like a bit of a lie that 2.6gb is an outrageous amount of data. My dad who has no idea about how to use anything on his iphone went through his 200mb of data last month.
Your dad represents the vast majority of smartphone users. Those here (and on various other tech sites) only account for a small percentage and, even here, you'll find plenty of people who also use that little data each month due to WiFi.
Many non-technical people get smartphones because of good salespeople, not because they need them. If they use data at all, it's to check email and facebook updates, but little else... things that use minimal data.
It's not hard to believe AT&T's claims that most of their users use under 200MB and that 97% use under 2GB.
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