If the throttling begins at 10gb, or maybe even 6-7, I understand. If it's done more heavily during the 5pm-10pm, it will improve QOS. If the drop is from 1.5mbps to 750, fine.
But that's not AT&T. They'll throttle at 2gb. They'll do it 24-7. And I wouldn't be shocked it they accomplish the throttling by dropping people to Edge for the rest of their billing cycle.
I should have jumped to Verizon and fought the ETF. This announcement comes just weeks after they drop unlimited. Clearly no coincidence.
The sad part? If those AT&T jerks offer me another early upgrade to get the iPhone 5 in a month, I'm not going anywhere.
Throttling SHOULD begin at 2GB, but it probably won't. For the rest of us, ATT charges $10 more the second you hit 2GB. Why should users who were lucky enough to be abusing the system for years now be granted a more privileged position? OK, so you pay $30 a month instead of $25. I'll give you the extra 20% and say the fair start for the slowing is at 2.4 GB.
Grandfathering the most abusive users is a crazy policy. Why should the heaviest users get the exception to use as much data as they like? I'm sure ATT will begin slowing the user down somewhere in the 3-4 GB range. As they've said, they will make it very clear to the user that throttling is about to happen before it happens with multiple warnings. So when it it gets phased in, we'll know the answer.
Unlike the vast majority of users, your $30 will continue to buy you far more than $25 or even $35 will buy the rest of users. Is that fair? Why should you get more for less?
ATT gives users the ability to use as much data as they want, at a price of $10 per GB. UNLIMITED. Pay for it. They won't be grandfathering users in with unlimited plans forever anyway, so get used t it.
This is yet another reason why I will not get an iPhone: AT&T is the most abusive company out their.
And look how they defined their top users: by %. So, that means as they whip people in to submission for data use, that 5% top end grows downward.
You say "look at" it, but you clearly didn't. Here's what ATT says about the people they will throttle:
" In fact, these customers on average use 12 times more data than the average of all other smartphone data customers. This step will not apply to our 15 million smartphone customers on a tiered data plan or the vast majority of smartphone customers who still have unlimited data plans."
We know that ATT has said the average smartphone user uses more than 400MB, which means that the average user they plan to throttle uses more than 5GB.
All you whining babies who think ATT and the other paying users owe you a favor, and that ATT is planning on throttling users right at 2GB and even below that, read that quote from ATT above again.
