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AT&T Starts Throttling Unlimited Data Users after 2GB of Monthly Usage
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I float around 2-3 GB per month and have never been throttled in Buffalo.
I use that much streaming Internet radio and streaming music from my Mac at home using Audiogalaxy.
Since they have a 3 GB plan available for the same price as unlimited, it is totally unreasonable for them to throttle anyone under that.
I float around 2-3 GB per month and have never been throttled in Buffalo.
I use that much streaming Internet radio and streaming music from my Mac at home using Audiogalaxy.
Since they have a 3 GB plan available for the same price as unlimited, it is totally unreasonable for them to throttle anyone under that.
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I got same message today I'm at 2.1GB first time I have been throttled and not happy. My usual usage is between 2 and 3 gb per month. AT&T really starting to tick me off, been with them for a lot of years but they starting to push me somewhere else
I got same message today I'm at 2.1GB first time I have been throttled and not happy. My usual usage is between 2 and 3 gb per month. AT&T really starting to tick me off, been with them for a lot of years but they starting to push me somewhere else
Way to roll over at every given opportunity there pal. We (America's cell subscribers) are already fifty feet below ground trying to dig ourselves out of a hole. At least I thought we were hoping for better...
Stronger Consumer Protection Laws: Thing # 3,048,291 Congress should be doing instead of whatever the **** they're doing now.
I'm getting sick of this incorrect argument. If you people would read a bit about contract law, or at least study notable contract cases, you'd find that the complainant does NOT need to prove that a contract was specifically broken based on the wording of the document. In fact, it's often sufficient to show a lack of good faith on the part of the contractor to provide "services as advertised".
AT&T would almost certainly lose a class action lawsuit in this matter due to their frequent advertising of 3G being fast. It doesn't matter what 3G is technically defined as (ironically, the technical definition of 3G, 3.5G and 4G are frequently bastardized for marketing their purposes, hurting their case).
The real problem is that when this lawsuit occurs (it will), and when AT&T loses or settles (they will), the attorneys are the ones that will profit.
That's the boat my family is in. My wife and I both still have unlimited data but if they are going to start throttling at such a low number then it's probably time to stop dealing with all of AT&T's negatives.
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No, they don't cut off my data, they limit my speed. Still a limit.
No, they don't cut off my data, they limit my speed. Still a limit.
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Here in Jersey, 3 days left to go on my month cycle and I got the message at 1.5Mb, at 2.1Mb I got throttled. Download was .07-.12Mb Upload was .23-1.31Mb. AT&T said that 2Gb was as low as there are going to go with the " top 5%". I work for the water company so I'm driving around all day so wifi isn't an option for me.
I'm now on the 3Gb plan
Here in Jersey, 3 days left to go on my month cycle and I got the message at 1.5Mb, at 2.1Mb I got throttled. Download was .07-.12Mb Upload was .23-1.31Mb. AT&T said that 2Gb was as low as there are going to go with the " top 5%". I work for the water company so I'm driving around all day so wifi isn't an option for me.
I'm now on the 3Gb plan
Oh good, let's complain more about throttling. If you don't like it take your money to a competitor. Simple as that. Speak with your dollars.
As for unlimited, it should be gone anyway. Just charge 10 bucks (or less) per megabite for wherever we fall in the month. Let people pay for what they use. Instead of lower users having to pay for the heavy users. Or is that too fair for everyone?
As for unlimited, it should be gone anyway. Just charge 10 bucks (or less) per megabite for wherever we fall in the month. Let people pay for what they use. Instead of lower users having to pay for the heavy users. Or is that too fair for everyone?
That's for sure. I live in Thailand 1/3 of the year for work and my service is FAR better there (on the exact same phone).
I'd say AT&T's service ranks somewhere between Cambodia and Bangladesh.
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Trust me... as soon as the iPhone 5 is released I will switch to T-Mobile (if possible) or Sprint.
That's exactly what the low limit plans are for...
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Yep. Zero.
Ridiculous
I had an interesting conversation with a former apple executive once and he was just sure that I as a user could not even really comprehend what a gig really represented in terms of data, so I told him exactly what it meant in terms of exactly how I used my device and he was amazed. The thing that is kind of uncharacteristically stupid to me is that apple makes these world changing devices and acts all surprised that the general populace does actually get informed by using them what the implications of their capabilities are and they really start doing all the stuff that the apple commercials lead you to believe is possible and more, and hey what do you know, that entails a lot of band width.
I had an interesting conversation with a former apple executive once and he was just sure that I as a user could not even really comprehend what a gig really represented in terms of data, so I told him exactly what it meant in terms of exactly how I used my device and he was amazed. The thing that is kind of uncharacteristically stupid to me is that apple makes these world changing devices and acts all surprised that the general populace does actually get informed by using them what the implications of their capabilities are and they really start doing all the stuff that the apple commercials lead you to believe is possible and more, and hey what do you know, that entails a lot of band width.
Are iOS's "Cellular Network Data" numbers accurate?
I have VZW iPhone 4S and it reads "71.8MB Sent and 335 MB rec", last reset 11.10.2011. That doesn't seem right...
I have VZW iPhone 4S and it reads "71.8MB Sent and 335 MB rec", last reset 11.10.2011. That doesn't seem right...
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I'm not saying we get charged for it but it has to use something since its on the 3G network and uses packets, no?
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I'm not saying we get charged for it but it has to use something since its on the 3G network and uses packets, no?
Yet.
Shocking! Let me see if I have this right. They are saying, the unthrottled is faster than the throttled?
The telecom authority in Hong Kong has explicitly prohibited this kind of "fake" unlimited plans with data caps. Therefore the telecom operators have started to cancel our unlimited plans and any new users must sign on to the "2GB plans" at the same price.
I just looked at my past few bills, I think the numbers are correct. WTF are you folks doing with your phones? I guess I'm on WiFi 99% of the time I use my phone, so I don't use much cellular data.