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Sprint Will Start Throttling Customers That Use More Than 23 GB a Month
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talk about first world problem 
most people on average get 500 mb to 1 GB a month here in Germany. those are all UNLIMITED but you get throttlesnto 64kbs for the rest of the month. i have 3GB and people are already jealous lol now i read about people using 80 GB of mobile data in here and i am like o m g
streaming video on mobile data doesnt even occur to us lol one time i played a YouTube Video without wifi by mistake and my heart nearly sank
most people on average get 500 mb to 1 GB a month here in Germany. those are all UNLIMITED but you get throttlesnto 64kbs for the rest of the month. i have 3GB and people are already jealous lol now i read about people using 80 GB of mobile data in here and i am like o m gstreaming video on mobile data doesnt even occur to us lol one time i played a YouTube Video without wifi by mistake and my heart nearly sank
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My plan right now has 6 hours of phone calls and unlimited MMS/SMS, but i don't use that, i also have 12 GB of data. There is an option to double it for 3 bucks (converted to US). I pay in total 13 USD.
talk about first world problem
streaming video on mobile data doesnt even occur to us lol one time i played a YouTube Video without wifi by mistake and my heart nearly sank
It is a known fact that Germany is behind most of the Europe in this respect.
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Throttle sounds kinda dirty. As in Stop using so much data or Sprint is gonna throttle you good!
I don't have an iPhone or smartphone, but I am grandfathered in on AT&T's unlimited data plan for the iPad. I regularly use 60 gigs a month! At home I use wifi, but outside I use cellular. I'm Always surfing the web & listening to Pandora on the train commuting to work and while at work. If I didn't have unlimited data, I'd be paying $600 a month!
I don't have an iPhone or smartphone, but I am grandfathered in on AT&T's unlimited data plan for the iPad. I regularly use 60 gigs a month! At home I use wifi, but outside I use cellular. I'm Always surfing the web & listening to Pandora on the train commuting to work and while at work. If I didn't have unlimited data, I'd be paying $600 a month!
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We all know if advertising was about truth vs selling a product, nothing would sell.
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....saying some of its customers use up to 2,000 GB a month.
Article Link: Sprint Will Start Throttling Customers That Use More Than 23 GB a Month
Thats a crazy amount of data 2000GB a month, definitely they are using the hotspot feature. I can see the savings for home internet for those customers, still that is just plain ridiculous 2000GB
While using 2000 gb a month is ridiculous, the fault is on the Sprint who lure customers in with ridiculous and false promise of unlimited and no throttling.
If they truly cannot continue to uphold their promise they should offer compensation to customers in exchange for turning their unlimited no throttling down to 23gb. The customers get penalized for breaking a contract, so why dont carriers get penalized for breaking the contract
If they truly cannot continue to uphold their promise they should offer compensation to customers in exchange for turning their unlimited no throttling down to 23gb. The customers get penalized for breaking a contract, so why dont carriers get penalized for breaking the contract
It is but when I changed the server to one in St. Louis, the speeds were even worse.
No. I live in St. Louis and these are the speeds with Sprint![eecb47bcbb6d1aa17abf813bbbcf5555.jpg]()
Pacific, Mo ? That's not the city and your coverage and speeds will be effected. Sprint most likely has you on band 25 and 26 which isn't as fast as their Spark Speeds on Band 41. Big difference. There isn't a demand for large amounts of bandwidth outside of cities. 2M and up is sufficient in rural areas.
sprint is ok in nyc
i think most people would consider germany a first world country
talk about first world problem
i think most people would consider germany a first world country
And these are speeds on a St. Louis server![f7cb78113286290e623936015a6fa086.jpg]()
That just means you're connecting to a server in Saint Louis hosted by someone which is not sprint. Your connection is only as good as the tower you're connecting to, which isn't in Saint Louis as no tower can reach that far.
If you want to test the speeds in Saint Louis.. You need to GO TO SAINT LOUIS and run some speed tests. You can't test the speeds in Saint Louis being in the outskirts of the city.
For example.. I can't say that Texas is slow because I decide to change my speed test to a location in Texas and my location is Colorado. That doesn't make sense. I'm only testing the speed in my location using the server in Texas.
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So what do they throttle it to? Maybe I missed that part.
Like if that person's getting 73Mbps and it gets throttled to 20Mbps, is that really that bad? The fastest home internet I can get is 12Mbps.
Like if that person's getting 73Mbps and it gets throttled to 20Mbps, is that really that bad? The fastest home internet I can get is 12Mbps.
What you're saying doesn't even make sense. St. Louis has roughly 300,000 people in the city and another 700,000 in the suburbs. What you're saying is only the 300,000 in the urban areas (many of whom probably can't buy expensive phones) need fast data, while the suburbs don't present a demand? When I tried Sprint and returned the device, I was testing in Chesterfield. It's another suburb in this area and it's where a lot of money is. I don't actually live there, but that's where it fell in its face for me. And I'm not talking obscure areas, but on major highways and roads.
Pacific is an outlying suburb, but it's along I-44 (major highway) and near Six Flags. It's far from some remote area that wouldn't expect to get good cell coverage.
Regardless, you can get excellent data service from AT&T and Verizon in these areas, and that's the real litmus test imo.
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no one promises any downloading/uploading speed. They promise unlimited data amount, and they keep that promise. Yes it is 100% unlimited, period
Oh well, guess I'm sol. I average 60 to 70 a month. Wtf, now I gotta work instead of watch netflix
They aren't lying (Not like AT&T did). IT's for new customers or renewing customers.
And sue for what? Unlimited Data implies you can use as much data as you want.
Throtteling isn't cutting you off. It's slowing you down.... so you do still have unlimited data.
T-Mobile for instance, has always said "Unlimited data.... XGB at 4G speeds and any data use over that at 2/3G speeds."
AT&T reverted throttled users even when networks were not congested and to below Edge speeds rendering phones useless. That was VERY different than what Sprint is stating they will do. They are also stating they will only Throttle after 23GB when network congestion in congested areas is an issue, not all the time.
But sure, let's sue everyone. They'll just charge more to recoup the damages.
It would matter what they advertised two years ago since it would be a material change to existing contracts.