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iPhone User Awarded $850 in Judgment Against AT&T Over Throttling
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Grandfathered in...
I guess now we know what being "grandfathered in" means to AT&T... if you use more speed than your grandfather, you get throttled. AT&T = lame, anti-customer.
I guess now we know what being "grandfathered in" means to AT&T... if you use more speed than your grandfather, you get throttled. AT&T = lame, anti-customer.
This is the best news I've heard all week...would have been better at $850,000...but hey, baby steps...
Looks like ATT is going to fight this:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/250721/atandt_to_appeal_ruling_in_throttling_case.html#tk.hp_new
http://www.pcworld.com/article/250721/atandt_to_appeal_ruling_in_throttling_case.html#tk.hp_new
My friend has Sprint and shes fine but it'll good cause if they switch to tiered at least ill be grandfathered in when they activate LTE
If you think Sprint is any better, then think about what they did to use mobile broadband customers who had unlimited contracts. Right in the middle just moved everyone to a 5GB tired plan. Supposedly buried the notice in the bill.
Sprint will do it again anytime they choose to. They are no better and grandfathering is no guarantee.
I wonder how you can exclude that. Actually, I doubt that you can in the first place. If you exclude legal procedures of any kind, my understanding was that this makes you even more vulnerable to those law suits because you acknowledge that you might do something to cause the other party to take such action. I would even wonder if it wouldn't be possible to just go for a class action law suit against AT&T for forbidding that and stripping customers from their right of letting courts decide if their rights were violated. Hey, I'm not a lawyer, so take this with a grain of salt.
Not always. I once found a $400 check in the mail for an ATi class action, didn't even remember signing up for it. Apparently it was related to a $200 videocard that I had purchased some years before.
But yeah, typically only the lawyers win.
It is really amazing to me that this company continually throws their most loyal customers under the bus, and they get away with it. Most businesses would go under for treating loyal customers in such a way.
Remember back when "Ma Bell" was forced to break up in the '80s?
Here's an interesting article relating to that and AT&T from 2007.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2007/01/bellwether.2.html
Remember back when "Ma Bell" was forced to break up in the '80s?
Here's an interesting article relating to that and AT&T from 2007.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2007/01/bellwether.2.html
haha, SOMEbody^^^ is envious and hasnt been an iphone user for very long. thus the hate.
As an iPhone 3GS user- with "unlimited" for 3 years now- and now being throttled at under 2GB (to 32KB/s) if AT&T only offered a reasonable pay per Gig program I would hardly hesitate. Maybe $5/GB?
But to throttle us at data usage levels that are less than people get under the 3GB plan, and then call it "network protection" is horse****. It's only "revenue protection." Which in a capitalist system is a corporation's right- to set prices as they see fit.
Just don't tinkle in my face and tell me it's raining.
But to throttle us at data usage levels that are less than people get under the 3GB plan, and then call it "network protection" is horse****. It's only "revenue protection." Which in a capitalist system is a corporation's right- to set prices as they see fit.
Just don't tinkle in my face and tell me it's raining.
The plot thickens... throttling LIFTED???
Now- it appears that AFTER the small-claims court verdict- something changed. I was again throttled after 2GB this month, but NOW the throttling has abated, and I'm almost up to full speed again- which sucked anyway at 175-250KB/s- from a throttled 32KB/s. This just happened in the last day or so.
Anybody else experiencing this? I think I saw it mentioned around here the other day.
Now- it appears that AFTER the small-claims court verdict- something changed. I was again throttled after 2GB this month, but NOW the throttling has abated, and I'm almost up to full speed again- which sucked anyway at 175-250KB/s- from a throttled 32KB/s. This just happened in the last day or so.
Anybody else experiencing this? I think I saw it mentioned around here the other day.
I was wondering the same thing. Last month at about 1.5GB, with about 10 days left in my cycle I got the text threatening to be throttled. This month, using about the same as the previous month but have not gotten the message.
HOT NEWS FLASH!!! AT&T CAVES. sort of...
News flash- 3/1/2012
"AT&T Sets New Rules on ‘Unlimited Data’ Plans- NY Times
NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T Inc. caved to complaints that it's placing unreasonable limits on the "unlimited data" plans it offers smartphone subscribers.
The cellphone company said Thursday that from now on, it will only slow down service for its "unlimited data" subscribers when they hit 3 gigabytes of usage within a billing cycle. Previously, the company had been throttling service when subscribers entered the heaviest 5 percent of data users for that month and that area.
There was no way for subscribers to find out ahead of time what the limit was. AT&T would send a warning by text message to people who approached the limit. The data throttling would then kick in a few days later. Thousands of subscribers complained about the policy online.
"Our unlimited plan customers have told us they want more clarity around how the program works and what they can expect," AT&T said in a statement Thursday." No bfd actually...
News flash- 3/1/2012
"AT&T Sets New Rules on ‘Unlimited Data’ Plans- NY Times
NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T Inc. caved to complaints that it's placing unreasonable limits on the "unlimited data" plans it offers smartphone subscribers.
The cellphone company said Thursday that from now on, it will only slow down service for its "unlimited data" subscribers when they hit 3 gigabytes of usage within a billing cycle. Previously, the company had been throttling service when subscribers entered the heaviest 5 percent of data users for that month and that area.
There was no way for subscribers to find out ahead of time what the limit was. AT&T would send a warning by text message to people who approached the limit. The data throttling would then kick in a few days later. Thousands of subscribers complained about the policy online.
"Our unlimited plan customers have told us they want more clarity around how the program works and what they can expect," AT&T said in a statement Thursday." No bfd actually...