Top five percent of AT&T smartphone usage and Bandwidth throttling

[littleguy]

I am 4 days before the end of my billing cycle, and the throttling has been stopped...

Anybody else experiencing normal speeds before the end of your cycle?

Very interesting. Hopefully it's a sign of some change.

On a semi related note, I've also noticed the petition on change.org has exploded recently. Maybe AT&T is recognizing a mistake and taking steps to fix it? Probably wishful thinking, but I have no explanation right now.

 

[Hellvalley]

This is weird, AT&T [Your world - Destroyed] just unthrottled me. Has this happened to anyone else?

 

[Apple Expert]

This is weird, AT&T [Your world - Destroyed] just unthrottled me. Has this happened to anyone else?

What do you mean by unthrottled you?

 

[lordofthereef]

What do you mean by unthrottled you?

Going out on alimb here... he was throttled for the month's billing cycle and now is unthrottled?

 

[pooleman]

I am 1 day away from my billing cycle ending and I am still throttled. Although my throttling speed is slightly better than it has been. Traditionally when I am throttled I only get speeds up to 0.12Mbps, now I am at0.24Mbps.

 

[Pipper99]

http://wraltechwire.com/business/tech_wire/wire/story/10777699/

My favorite part of the story:

"Nadel said it's not fair for AT&T to make a promise to Spaccarelli when he buys the phone while burying terms in his contract that give the company the right to cut down data speeds."

 

[boredandlonely]

AT&T Revamps Throttling Policy, Only Slows Unlimited Users above 3GB/Month

AT&T Revamps Throttling Policy, Only Slows Unlimited Users above 3GB/Month
https://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/0...cy-only-slows-unlimited-users-above-3gbmonth/

Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you said complaining does NOTHING???

Step 1, success.

I'm not ready to throw in the towel yet on my other complaints... I still don't understand how 3gb is "abuse", yet they offer 5gb plans... i.e., why isn't there an Unlimited plan that gets a throttle at 5gb? How is "Unlimited" LESS than 5gb. Why can't people pay for that increase without being tricked into an overage-laden tiered plan?

 

[balamw]

MOD NOTE:

AT&T has revised their policy and there is now a front page story about this here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1332276/

I am closing this thread as it no longer seems relevant in light of the change.

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