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ATT will throttle you for 2gb of Data or more
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Just additional clarification based on my experieced, never received any text about top 5% before this event.
I received the msg from 753-7
Nov 30 7:01am "Your data usage is approaching the top 5% of users"
then this message from 1111487700
Nov 30 7:05am "As requested, your service has been changed. This change is now effective."
Followed by this message from 753-7 4 days later
Dec 3 7:03am "You data usage is among the top 5% of users. Data speeds for the rest of your current bill cycle may be reduced..."
Thats the order, and I noticed my throttle speed about a day after the 1111487700 message even days before they sent me the text stating I'm in their top 5%.
Suggesting the text from 1111487700 is the initiator of the throttle.
Other experiences with this number...
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-111-148-7700
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You are free to do whatever you wish, but you'd be wasting your time.
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What does this mean? Did you make changes to the data plan?
Nope NEVER called or requested anything, they just sent me a text from that number. I called ATT to verify that text and number today Dec. 4th, and they said no changes were authorized, however, that's basically the text that initiated the throttling even before the text announcing I was in their top 5%.
looks like the throttling is relative to your area. If the area is having bandwidth issue they are going after the heavy users and working their way down. If your area is fine for the most part they are not going to hit you.
I at sitting at around 4 gigs right now on my unlimited and still not being slowed down.
I at sitting at around 4 gigs right now on my unlimited and still not being slowed down.
I'm in Philly and over 2 GB and into 15 days of billing cycle and haven't been throttled and/or received a text.
0.15mbps is 150kbps or 18.75 kB/s. With that number you can conceivably download around 45GB/month if you were able to stream 24/7 - I do understand it's extremely slow though. Basically unusable.
though just for the record, there have been many times that I've gotten those speeds in NYC with only 100MBs downloaded that month. NYC just sucks for data sometimes.
That was one of my points, they can not even guarantee a rate. It fluctuates wildly here is So Cal, so how can they say they will throttle us. I dont ge t the advantage of the high speed, but I do get throttled.
Class Action Suit!
Class Action Suit!
If you're on the grandfathered "unlimited" plan, then there's a chance AT&T may throttle you.
If you're on one of the tiered data plans with a fixed data allowance, then you will not be a candidate for throttling. You'll continue receiving data at the fastest peak speed AT&T's infrastructure can support at any given time, and you'll pay overage fees once you go above your monthly allowance.
(Note that this all deals with deliberate artificial throttling... If AT&T simply doesn't have enough available bandwidth to satisfy peak demand in your area, then everybody in your area will unavoidably share in situations in which they're all running slower than their theoretical maximum speed, no matter how little data they'd previously consumed in their billing period...)
...and, if you have a non-smartphone, with their still available unlimited data plan, you'll also continue to receive data without the fear of being throttled.
For the most part, it's much more about money and how much they think they can get out of people than their network structure and how much it can handle.
Nope. Tethering customers are paying a higher price for 4GB, so 4GB is what they get, unthrottled. Every GB after that is $10, also unthrottled.
i find this muthafuccen ridiculous!!.. I rec'd my text at 4AM this morning..
...so here I'm thinking, mann, I must've hit like 5GB again, but how? I have barely been using my phone this past month.. low-n-behold!.. i log onto my account management, and ONLY 2,169 MB??!!.. W-O-W[!]... how fuccen iRONIC is this?? barely reached 2GB, and now risking reduced speeds??!!.. Why are they even bothering?? Just tell the ppl who still have UNLIMITED DATA Plans that they've canceled the feature and customer's are free to jump to Sprint (until they eliminate their unlimited data plans) or move over to ************* tiered data plans like everyone else..
fucc, I, ONCE AGAIN, h-a-t-e AT&T!!!!
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So where do you live..? What's your area?
"Your data usage this month is in the top 5% of users. Use Wi-Fi to help avoid reduced speeds in future bill cycles. Visit www(dot)attsucksleftnuts(dot)com"
...so here I'm thinking, mann, I must've hit like 5GB again, but how? I have barely been using my phone this past month.. low-n-behold!.. i log onto my account management, and ONLY 2,169 MB??!!.. W-O-W[!]... how fuccen iRONIC is this?? barely reached 2GB, and now risking reduced speeds??!!.. Why are they even bothering?? Just tell the ppl who still have UNLIMITED DATA Plans that they've canceled the feature and customer's are free to jump to Sprint (until they eliminate their unlimited data plans) or move over to ************* tiered data plans like everyone else..
fucc, I, ONCE AGAIN, h-a-t-e AT&T!!!!
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So where do you live..? What's your area?
They've made it clear that they are targeting the top 5% of data users and that 97% of their users use UNDER 2GB of data/month.
I don't understand why people are surprised when they finally do what they've been saying for months.
They are hoping that the majority of unlimited data users will drop down to the 4GB tier to avoid being throttled - while paying more.
great yep that's their plan. Its like a really bad drug dealer. First dole out cheap drugs and once people get hooked on them remove it all together. nice going
We are talking about a contract here. A contract has to be signed by a representative of BOTH parties to be binding. Now the only contract I signed was one that had unlimited data and did not even bring up throttleing, because back then it wasnt a problem at all.
Now before you all start to cry about how I clicked yes to a TOS check box, that is not a signature, either by me or by one of ATT reps
Its just like how B of A forclosed on all of those people illegaly because Bof A didnt have the origional contract. All anyone had to do was to say NO, let me see my signed contract and they would have not been foreclossed on, but they didnt know or if they knew they didnt stand on their rights.
So you do what you want, but I think
Class Action Suit!
Now before you all start to cry about how I clicked yes to a TOS check box, that is not a signature, either by me or by one of ATT reps
Its just like how B of A forclosed on all of those people illegaly because Bof A didnt have the origional contract. All anyone had to do was to say NO, let me see my signed contract and they would have not been foreclossed on, but they didnt know or if they knew they didnt stand on their rights.
So you do what you want, but I think
Class Action Suit!
You forgot to mention that the only contract you signed was also for 2 years, has expired long ago, and, if it was for the original iPhone, it wasn't for 3G.
You could try to start a class action lawsuit, but, as per their rights in the original contract, they would simply drop the ETF and cancel the contract altogether.
stop crying and either get off the unlimited data plan or suffer the consequence... we are the 97%, i rather at&t screws the 3% then have you guys take up all the bandwith and screw us all. and for the record, i do have the unlimited data plan. i use between 1 to 2gigs a month, usually never more or less... i'm sure at&t is ok having 3 unhappy customers and have 97 happy customers... if you don't like it, go to sprint. but remember, the grass isn't always greener in the other side.
I didnt twist their arm to sell me an unlimited plan. I have had that plan for four years now and on average used less than 1 gig a month going all the way back.
How am I the one in the wrong when they are the ones changing the deal.
They sold it they made $$ off me every month and still do. I am just mad that they are being dis honorable by changing the deal after it was already set.
Imagine if I decided to change the deal, they said the data would be fast and it is not (true story) so if I choose to not give them 30$ but instead only give them 20$ because the data wasnt as fast as they said it would be, then would everyone be on my side saying that ATT should still honor the contract? or would they say well you have a contract stick to it?
I can see the text message I would send to ATT right now "Your data service download speed for this month has been well bellow the speed you had advertised for my data service, because of this I will only be paying 10% of the agreed upon monthly data fee, I will return to the preveously agreed upon amount in my next billing cycle at which point I will again be monitoring the data speed to ensure it matches the claimed speed available."
Right, I have a contract, so ATT you need to stick to it.
Thats not crying, thats standing up for what is right. FYI
How am I the one in the wrong when they are the ones changing the deal.
They sold it they made $$ off me every month and still do. I am just mad that they are being dis honorable by changing the deal after it was already set.
Imagine if I decided to change the deal, they said the data would be fast and it is not (true story) so if I choose to not give them 30$ but instead only give them 20$ because the data wasnt as fast as they said it would be, then would everyone be on my side saying that ATT should still honor the contract? or would they say well you have a contract stick to it?
I can see the text message I would send to ATT right now "Your data service download speed for this month has been well bellow the speed you had advertised for my data service, because of this I will only be paying 10% of the agreed upon monthly data fee, I will return to the preveously agreed upon amount in my next billing cycle at which point I will again be monitoring the data speed to ensure it matches the claimed speed available."
Right, I have a contract, so ATT you need to stick to it.
Thats not crying, thats standing up for what is right. FYI
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