Do you have a 917 or other NYC area code? I don't get anywhere near 2GB for now, but I have a 312 number in NYC. I wonder if I'm in the "Chicago" market?
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Leaving AT&T Due to Throttling of Grandfathered Unlimited Data
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Do you have a 917 or other NYC area code? I don't get anywhere near 2GB for now, but I have a 312 number in NYC. I wonder if I'm in the "Chicago" market?
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yep 917, but i was told by att rep, that i'm in "NY market" (which made me question their 2gb / 5% top users claim even more, newyorkers abuse everything!
ps: i red somewhere you can switch markets by changing billing address & not losing your number, but need to verify
yep 917, but i was told by att rep, that i'm in "NY market" (which made me question their 2gb / 5% top users claim even more, newyorkers abuse everything!
ps: i red somewhere you can switch markets by changing billing address & not losing your number, but need to verify
Yup.. Looks like AT&T are starting to throttle your speed if you go over 2gb. Just got my noticed again today and I'm at 1.6G of used currently. Last month I was throtlled when I got over 3gb.
Yup.. Looks like AT&T are starting to throttle your speed if you go over 2gb. Just got my noticed again today and I'm at 1.6G of used currently. Last month I was throtlled when I got over 3gb.
I went over 3GB today and have 3 days left in my billing cycle and haven't heard a word from AT&T.
Ya. I'm starting to believe it really depends on your location. This is infuriating!
Ya. I'm starting to believe it really depends on your location. This is infuriating!
I'm right outside Chicago, IL.
I'm in the Greater Cleveland Area and got throttled after 3.2 GB used last month. Didn't stop me from using almost 5.5 GB that month though. I probably would have used my average 8 GB though. I like to be able to stream music and Netflix at work where there is no Wi-Fi. Can't do either when I'm being throttled though.
Good luck
Keep us posted, once you get throttled
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Hilarious, but ... You're onto something. Since that 5% formula is determined on average usage, WE SHOULD ALL Netflix / pandora at night, once we get throttled - that way 2gb cap will go up, the next month!
Keep us posted, once you get throttled
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Hilarious, but ... You're onto something. Since that 5% formula is determined on average usage, WE SHOULD ALL Netflix / pandora at night, once we get throttled - that way 2gb cap will go up, the next month!
Funny to think about messing with ATT but it won't work
They could simply adjust it to "throttling the top 10% of data users" if they really wanted to...
Ya. I'm starting to believe it really depends on your location. This is infuriating!
Honestly that is the best way to go about it. No point to throttle someone where they have plenty of extra bandwidth but in an area were it is more limited and risk causing problems it is fine to hit them on it.
Will do. However, I'm thinking I might not because the AT&T towers in my area are not congested. I get 5-6Mbps down at home on 3 bars. If it happens, it happens, I'm not gonna sit on my phone and try to make it happen.
Except the formula is determined by average usage per person, not average usage overall.
You would need the vast majority of AT&T's customers to use more data in order to change the cutoff point.
Basically, if 95% of their customers use 1.5GB (or less) of data/ month and the last 5% use 500GB, they would still throttle you at 1.5GB.
Yeah same here. During the fall semsester I was hitting 3-4+gigs a month and never was effected. Now the last month has been low but I have been out school for christmas break so in range of wifi pretty much full time.
The tower I use seem to be non issue ones who AT&T does not seem to care.
Is this confirmed? I ask, not to argue, but because I feel AT&T left this wordage intentionally vague. If they wanted people to understand what the situation was, they certainly could have been 1000 times more clear.
I would gladly take over your plan for mine, VZW unlimited, if you had a family plan with unlimited
They throttle you to the ground. That said, it STILL may be faster than Sprint depending on your location.
AT&T throttles to 15kB (Kilo bytes.) per second. Sprint is sadly faster.
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Didn't see a response like mine posted so here it is, and it's simple: Sprint is 100% throttling data, you can google it as none other than Dan Hesse himself came out and said it. Except it's only for something like the top 1-2%. That's fine, the only problem is its gonna be fairly hard to ever go over 1GB when you and pull .5 down or up.
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Didn't see a response like mine posted so here it is, and it's simple: Sprint is 100% throttling data, you can google it as none other than Dan Hesse himself came out and said it. Except it's only for something like the top 1-2%. That's fine, the only problem is its gonna be fairly hard to ever go over 1GB when you and pull .5 down or up.
I am on long island. I had sprint for years. I had a lot of problems with it such as disconnects, horrible data speeds, dead spots. A few months ago I tried AT&T and my house was a dead spot. I called up AT&T and was trying to get a free air-rave unit. They wouldn't do it. The rep told me that I still had time to cancel and return the phone.
I am now with verizon and have not had any problems with my service. Best decision I made.
I am now with verizon and have not had any problems with my service. Best decision I made.
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I totally agree with your statement in general. I have been with Verizon over 11 years now. I've test driven AT&T 3-4 times hoping that reception would pick up. Never once have I had a positive result. Granted, I don't live in a huge city, but I'm 50 miles away from two major metropolitan areas going east or west from my home. In these huge areas AT&T is a bit faster than vzw(haven't test drove AT&T on 4S) but as soon as I leave one of these areas I'm lucky to get data at all.
When LTE comes to the iPhone I'd say go with Vzw 100%. I have owned many, and still do own 2 LTE Verizon phones(bionic, GNex) and I've seen speeds over 45mbps, even when in these large areas that are jam packed with people.
Sure the fallback from 4 to 3G will be a little bit more ruff, but Verizon 3G isn't so slow it's inbearable. Not only that, but every where I travel I've found it to be the case that Vzw 3G is FAR more reliable. Not to say AT&T isn't good, just not as good as Vzw. Im not making this up to say my carrier is better, if I thought AT&T was better I'd switch in a heartbeat as my contract is currently up. My wife used AT&T for years due to a family plan that was thru a business her parents owned. Needless today, at least in our area, she used my phone to make calls nearly as much as me.
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I totally agree with your statement in general. I have been with Verizon over 11 years now. I've test driven AT&T 3-4 times hoping that reception would pick up. Never once have I had a positive result. Granted, I don't live in a huge city, but I'm 50 miles away from two major metropolitan areas going east or west from my home. In these huge areas AT&T is a bit faster than vzw(haven't test drove AT&T on 4S) but as soon as I leave one of these areas I'm lucky to get data at all.
When LTE comes to the iPhone I'd say go with Vzw 100%. I have owned many, and still do own 2 LTE Verizon phones(bionic, GNex) and I've seen speeds over 45mbps, even when in these large areas that are jam packed with people.
Sure the fallback from 4 to 3G will be a little bit more ruff, but Verizon 3G isn't so slow it's inbearable. Not only that, but every where I travel I've found it to be the case that Vzw 3G is FAR more reliable. Not to say AT&T isn't good, just not as good as Vzw. Im not making this up to say my carrier is better, if I thought AT&T was better I'd switch in a heartbeat as my contract is currently up. My wife used AT&T for years due to a family plan that was thru a business her parents owned. Needless today, at least in our area, she used my phone to make calls nearly as much as me.
This was misreported. They are throttling data when you are on a roaming network (as in non-Sprint network). This is actually even part of the contract. Over 300mb = throttled.
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I said that tongue in cheek, but there have been many instances where I have seen slower data speeds on Sprint than 15kB
Out of curiosity, are you actually in Seattle? Also, the usage there (for data) is a lifetime usage, not monthly (or at least since it has been reset). Have you only had the phone for the month? The best way to see how much you are using for the month according to AT&T is to dial *3282# IMO
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Yes, I am in Seattle... I watch Netflix, watch live streams through the justin.tv/twitch.tv app. I also stream radio through Pandora every time I am at work...
I agree that throttling data for an "unlimited plan" is lame, but you should know that VZW does the same thing. That won't be a problem for you because due to switching, you'll be forced on a 2gb plan anyway. So the real question you have to ask yourself is what are you actually gaining by switching? If you're happy with yoru ATT service, I'd just stay. You're not going to teach them a lesson, they don't care. None of the carriers do. Switching is a pain in the butt, it costs more than just staying, and I've found VZW to be bigger ******s than ATT on CS issues.
Do you still have the AT&T account? I am to take over someone's AT&T account with 2 lines with unlimited smartphone data. Please let me know if you or anyone wants to get rid of such plan and doesn't want pay etf. I am willing to take over the account.
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