Are you an employee of AT&T? Do you set policy for AT&T? Are you a spokesperson for AT&T?
This thread is both amusing and disturbing. AT&T has already made a statement that it does not intend to throttle data usage on the iPad the way it does on mobile phones. I wish they would say why one is different than the other, because that seems to be the cause for so many lemmings here to make statements like the one above.
If it says "unlimited" on the label, then it's unlimited. If AT&T throttles a user over a specific bandwidth usage, it does not impede the traffic of anyone else under that mark. So whining about someone who gets throttled is useless, because it does not impact anyone else.
Use your service as you need it.
And you believe AT&T?
The response you're criticizing is in response to someone who is clearly abusing his plan (tethering on unlimited which isn't possible unless you jailbreak, allowing his entire office to tether to it). That's not within the limits of his 'unlimited' contract, so no, unlimited is unlimited, as you so eloquently put it. And no, throttling one user at a limit doesn't affect the traffic of anyone else directly but a significant number of users abusing their plans causing AT&T to imposing a limit at which throttling start DOES affect others as they're a big different between 3 and 60 GB. Those users have now screwed it for others who may only be using 4, 5, 10 GB within the bounds of their contracts.