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Developer Claims Three Major Carriers Throttle iPhone and iPad Data Speeds

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't higher data speeds mean more data consumed? More data consumed means more money for the provider. Why would they want less money? Sounds a little fishy. What am I missing? I personally use VOIP and a MiFi device for phone and internet so am not real familiar with cellular billing. :)
 
Under other circumstances this finding, if true, would be outrageous. However, I've never had issues with LTE speeds on my iOS device. It's fast enough for everything I do. I'd care more about increasing bandwidth cap for the money first, higher speed is not even a 2nd priority for me.
 
Seems to me that having unlimited speed would let you hit your quota earlier, and thus getting nagged in to upgrading data plans.
 
No improvement here.. AT&T has been having LTE tower problems in my area of San Diego for almost 3 weeks now.. Still get decent speeds at 10-12Mbps, but no where near the 35-40Mbps I was getting when the tower was running at full capacity. They told me a couple more weeks until its fixed..
 
MacDav said:
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't higher data speeds mean more data consumed? More data consumed means more money for the provider. Why would they want less money? Sounds a little fishy. What am I missing? I personally use VOIP and a MiFi device for phone and internet so am not real familiar with cellular billing. :)
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If true, the likely answer will be that making a little less money, but having an operating network is more desirable than the poor customer experience of networks that are slow due to overload.

Besides, the premiums that the carriers charge for data isn't trivial. They are making money hand over fist as it is.
 
No limits on T-Mobile
 

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bushido said:
it may help to turn off the wifi first ... duh!
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Notice the difference in the symbols in the test results? One was done on wifi the other via cell connection. Hence my question as to if Verizon is really throttling, why am I able to get such good connections via cell?

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Yeah....not in Nashville last time I checked. That was LTE. The screenshot was taken on wifi, but the symbol on the test data shows it was over cellular.
 

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I can understand why a carrier would want to throttle, but what would Apple's motive be?

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MattMJB0188 said:
This is really a good idea because the iPhone does use more and that's not fair to us Android or Windows users.

T-Mobile will catch on soon, once more people hop on their network.
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Despite the iPhone 5 on T-Mobile and myself getting one huge lines were expected and while there was during the launch, it wasn't enough to sell out of stock. I came in and upgraded which was long overdue from the global GSM Galaxy Nexus.

Got my update done along with some long time customer perks enabling some free and unlimited 4G and unlimited device tethering from my iPhone 5. Needless to say, I am quite happy with a huge upgrade in speed.

My Gnex did have Jelly Bean 4.0.4 and for what it's worth, the Samsung Nexus was a nice phone. What drove me crazy was when typing, I'd hit the home virtual button instead of the space bar quite often losing everything I'd typed. Had enough of that and being a Mac guy, the iPhone was a natural choice for compatibility.
 
Not exactly

MacDav said:
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't higher data speeds mean more data consumed? More data consumed means more money for the provider. Why would they want less money? Sounds a little fishy. What am I missing? I personally use VOIP and a MiFi device for phone and internet so am not real familiar with cellular billing. :)
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higher data speeds do not directly covert to more data used. Higher speeds do allow for use of more data in a shorter time meaning Better video chat resolution faster download/uploads etc.

The issue for the phone co's is throughput there towers only allow for so much at any given time so they figure if they limit the device that used the most data at any given time this will elevate the issues in area where the "iPhones" are "hogging" all the throughput.

I dont agree with there half thought of way of doing this its unfair to the consumer they should build more towers or provide more throughput and or not over sell their services
 
bushido said:
it may help to turn off the wifi first ... duh!
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Well, if you actually look at the test results you'll see it was tested on a cellular connection, the icon right by the date being the indicator. He is currently on Wi-Fi showing us results of a previous test.
 
unlimitedx said:
Shelby, NC only has a population of 20k residents, I'd imagine there is plenty of bandwidth to go around in that area so there wouldn't be a need to throttle, compared to a city like NYC
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I get similar speeds in Chicago.
 
Funny how many people desperately want this to be true, when simple logic says it doesn't make any sense. :)
 
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