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AT&T Starts Throttling Unlimited Data Users after 2GB of Monthly Usage
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I live in Puerto Rico and i receive this message in spanish to but my data use is around 5g
Tu uso de datos este mes esta entre el 5% de usuarios que mas datos usan. Usa Wi-Fi para que no se reduzca la velocidad. Mas informacion en att.com/dataplans. Its said: my data use this month is in 5% of user switch to wifi to prevent slow data speed
I live in Puerto Rico and i receive this message in spanish to but my data use is around 5g
Tu uso de datos este mes esta entre el 5% de usuarios que mas datos usan. Usa Wi-Fi para que no se reduzca la velocidad. Mas informacion en att.com/dataplans. Its said: my data use this month is in 5% of user switch to wifi to prevent slow data speed
I'm selling the iPhone, buying iPod Touch
** I am NOT offering the iPhone for sale HERE**
I got their nasty message when I reached 2GB at the end of my billing cycle.
I'll be selling the 2 month old iPhone 4S and using the proceeds to pay the $310 cancelation fee to get out of my contract with at&t. Then with the difference, I'll buy an iPod Touch and get a cheap phone with Cricket (similar to MetroPCS).
There are no contracts at all with Cricket and MetroPCS.
I know this isn't a perfect replacement, but I can not in good conscience continue to pay $80+ per month and be treated like crap. Good riddance! I'm looking forward to the $50 per month savings!
** I am NOT offering the iPhone for sale HERE**
I got their nasty message when I reached 2GB at the end of my billing cycle.
I'll be selling the 2 month old iPhone 4S and using the proceeds to pay the $310 cancelation fee to get out of my contract with at&t. Then with the difference, I'll buy an iPod Touch and get a cheap phone with Cricket (similar to MetroPCS).
There are no contracts at all with Cricket and MetroPCS.
I know this isn't a perfect replacement, but I can not in good conscience continue to pay $80+ per month and be treated like crap. Good riddance! I'm looking forward to the $50 per month savings!
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I also got the message.
I'm in the Atlanta area.
My other friends got the same message too.
I am hugely disappointed...
I'm in the Atlanta area.
My other friends got the same message too.
I am hugely disappointed...
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Very helpful. I'll remember that advice in one and a half years.
slippery-pete said:
Very helpful. I'll remember that advice in one and a half years.
Just putting this out there: I use my iPhone on Sprint. And it's lovely
You should write that here... people need to know...
If a person gets the message that they are in the "top 5% of data users" upon crossing the 2GB mark it is safe to assume that any other user that gets over around that mark will also be considered to be the "top 5% of data users".
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One could argue that taking action to curb usage at a specified point is a type of "limit."
anonApple said:
One could argue that taking action to curb usage at a specified point is a type of "limit."
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^This! One might find it very difficult to argue otherwise, as it is a limit and therefor not unlimited.
southernpaws said:
^This! One might find it very difficult to argue otherwise, as it is a limit and therefor not unlimited.
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Aside from gloating, what do posts like this accomplish?
Big D 51 said:
Aside from gloating, what do posts like this accomplish?
First AT&T came for the over 10 GB/month data users,
and I didn't speak out because I had Unlimited data.
Then they came for the over 8 GB/month data users,
and I didn't speak out because I had Unlimited data.
Then they came for the over 5 GB/month data users,
and I didn't speak out because I had Unlimited data.
Then they came for me, the 2 GB/month data user,
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
I've averaged between 3-5 GB/month for several years on Unlimited data. Then on Thursday I get the email of death warning me that at 2.1 GB (nine days left in billing cycle), I was in the top 5% of heaviest users and would be throttled next month if I didn't change my sinful ways.
So, all of you who received AT&T's extortion note, let them know you heard them loud and clear by filing a FCC Complaint.
Complaint categories would be False Advertising and Service
Share your AT&T love here > File FCC Complaint
When you get your call from AT&T about your FCC complaint, be prepared to tell them that you think what they are doing is underhanded and dirty, and that the only way to resolve this is to give you the 5 GB + tethering plan for the same price of your now worthless Unlimited plan for the same $30/month for the life of your account.
and I didn't speak out because I had Unlimited data.
Then they came for the over 8 GB/month data users,
and I didn't speak out because I had Unlimited data.
Then they came for the over 5 GB/month data users,
and I didn't speak out because I had Unlimited data.
Then they came for me, the 2 GB/month data user,
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
I've averaged between 3-5 GB/month for several years on Unlimited data. Then on Thursday I get the email of death warning me that at 2.1 GB (nine days left in billing cycle), I was in the top 5% of heaviest users and would be throttled next month if I didn't change my sinful ways.
So, all of you who received AT&T's extortion note, let them know you heard them loud and clear by filing a FCC Complaint.
Complaint categories would be False Advertising and Service
Share your AT&T love here > File FCC Complaint
When you get your call from AT&T about your FCC complaint, be prepared to tell them that you think what they are doing is underhanded and dirty, and that the only way to resolve this is to give you the 5 GB + tethering plan for the same price of your now worthless Unlimited plan for the same $30/month for the life of your account.
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Yes. Because the loss of all-you-can-eat data is comparable to the holocaust. Well said.
Seraph- said:
Yes. Because the loss of all-you-can-eat data is comparable to the holocaust. Well said.
I am wondering it if is directed at where you live, ie a metro area like Los Angeles etc. I have received the warning several times.
I am about ready to move over to Sprint, my contract is up soon!
I am about ready to move over to Sprint, my contract is up soon!
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My thoughts exactly. Though I am against this wittiling down of the unlimited plan, this is a bit of an over reaction to it. No one wins an argument by equating their opponent to the natzis.
southernpaws said:
My thoughts exactly. Though I am against this wittiling down of the unlimited plan, this is a bit of an over reaction to it. No one wins an argument by equating their opponent to the natzis.
Now that I have already posted how crappy this is, let's look at it from AT&T's perspective (and Verizon and Sprint). Siri has anecdotaly doubled network usage. The massive uptake of iPhones and the persistence of prior iPhones through gifts and sales is a factor.
The network has to be being crushed right now. The government recently stepped on their gonads on the T-Mobile deal which would have shared some frequencies and spread usage among them.
The government has caused the bottleneck and iPhone 4 has caused massive increases in per capita usage.
Rocketman
The network has to be being crushed right now. The government recently stepped on their gonads on the T-Mobile deal which would have shared some frequencies and spread usage among them.
The government has caused the bottleneck and iPhone 4 has caused massive increases in per capita usage.
Rocketman
My prediction is sometime this year Google will file to buy T-Mobile.
G-Mobile anyone?
Once they buy it, they will restructure the entire landscape of the cellular networks. Watch them light up all that dark fiber across the U.S. They'll introduce free 1GB plans (or more) with contract (possibly with ads, but un-intrusive ones) and much cheaper plans across the board. Maybe even bring back unlimited plans. Remember, the MORE you use the internet, the more Google makes money. Completely the opposite of how carriers work right now. They make money by setting low limits and forcing you to go over and by paying for more than you use.
I think this will happen. Google is the only company that can do this. They need to disrupt the grip the carriers have inorder to move forward to a more open more useful fast and accessible mobile internet. I don't believe any other company out there can do this. I think Steve Jobs may have wanted to do it, but there's no way Apple could have pulled it off. Google can. They have the assets, network and drive to do it.
I think they will. Something has got to give. Can you imagine what 2022 will be like at this rate? We would be lucky if they finish rolling out 4G by then and it would still have ridiculous data caps.
G-Mobile anyone?
Once they buy it, they will restructure the entire landscape of the cellular networks. Watch them light up all that dark fiber across the U.S. They'll introduce free 1GB plans (or more) with contract (possibly with ads, but un-intrusive ones) and much cheaper plans across the board. Maybe even bring back unlimited plans. Remember, the MORE you use the internet, the more Google makes money. Completely the opposite of how carriers work right now. They make money by setting low limits and forcing you to go over and by paying for more than you use.
I think this will happen. Google is the only company that can do this. They need to disrupt the grip the carriers have inorder to move forward to a more open more useful fast and accessible mobile internet. I don't believe any other company out there can do this. I think Steve Jobs may have wanted to do it, but there's no way Apple could have pulled it off. Google can. They have the assets, network and drive to do it.
I think they will. Something has got to give. Can you imagine what 2022 will be like at this rate? We would be lucky if they finish rolling out 4G by then and it would still have ridiculous data caps.
I'm at 2.8gb for the month with one day left in my billing cycle. Never got a message from AT&T. I'm in Northern San Diego County. My brother in Hollywood got the text from AT&T after using 3.9gb. I've consistently used 2.5+and haven't gotten it yet. I have to agree that it must be regional.
Way to completely miss the point. The quote that post was based on wasn't about the Holocaust, it was about the spread of oppression.
But the principle is exactly the same. Just because that saying was used for a terrible crime doesn't mean that saying is now forbidden to be used forever.
Arbitrary
I understand it to work like this. Each cell is allocated a certain amount of backhaul bandwidth. Monthly costs to maintain each cell site are essentially fixed, regardless of utilization. This is similar to having ethernet in your home; the cost of keeping your switch running stays the same, regardless of how much you use it, or if it is 10baseT or gigabit ethernet.
It appears to me that tiered pricing should be used to assign traffic priority during congested periods, not to set monthly limits on data volume.
The current pricing tries to gets you thinking that data volume has value, and the carriers are not "dumb pipes".
I understand it to work like this. Each cell is allocated a certain amount of backhaul bandwidth. Monthly costs to maintain each cell site are essentially fixed, regardless of utilization. This is similar to having ethernet in your home; the cost of keeping your switch running stays the same, regardless of how much you use it, or if it is 10baseT or gigabit ethernet.
It appears to me that tiered pricing should be used to assign traffic priority during congested periods, not to set monthly limits on data volume.
The current pricing tries to gets you thinking that data volume has value, and the carriers are not "dumb pipes".