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What percentage of AT&T users still have unlimited?
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My cat would kill the dog!
Been on unlimited data since my iPhone 3G. Made modifications to my plan but the data has remained the same.
and this is why I'm at T-Mobile.
I pay $20 for truly unlimited LTE.
In my area LTE was a little shotty, but I was able to request a signal booster. (Normally $500, but if you request one and qualify they are free) Now I have full bars LTE and I never get throttled. I usually run 150-200GB a month. I tether it to my smart tv and stream massive amounts of movies and tv shows. I can't do this on my regular internet connection because it's only limited to 100GB a month. Sucks to be out in da boonies.
P.S. I believe T-Mobile ONLY throttles if you try to P2P on their network.
I pay $20 for truly unlimited LTE.
In my area LTE was a little shotty, but I was able to request a signal booster. (Normally $500, but if you request one and qualify they are free) Now I have full bars LTE and I never get throttled. I usually run 150-200GB a month. I tether it to my smart tv and stream massive amounts of movies and tv shows. I can't do this on my regular internet connection because it's only limited to 100GB a month. Sucks to be out in da boonies.
P.S. I believe T-Mobile ONLY throttles if you try to P2P on their network.
Looks like they are feeling the pressure from the FTC. They extended the doule data promotion and increased the individual data allotments.
http://about.att.com/story/att_adds...the_nations_most_reliable_4g_lte_network.html
http://about.att.com/story/att_adds...the_nations_most_reliable_4g_lte_network.html
I don't see the correlation. Those are mobile share plans, not unlimited data plan that grandfathered customers have.
Yeah I have LTE coverage. AT&T began throttling in my area once everyone started buying iPhones like 3 years ago
Trying to make existing plans as attractive as possible to move people off unlimited. They managed to succeed with a lot of people jumping ship already. I'm guessing because of the heat from the FTC, they make give us back our unthrottled unlimited so they want as few legacy plans as possible.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1792319/
They've been doing this for a while now through throttling and various other tactics including NEXT, and it's no secret that they want as many people as possible off unlimited. It really has nothing to do with the FTC and your link predates the lawsuit.
You don't think it is a coincidence that they double their data to make their plans as attractive as possible? A month ago when they first announced this, people in the thread were wondering if there was something fishy behind this sudden "nice gesture." Low and behold news breaks that the FTC is suing them. Also auction blocks are being held by the FCC for the next wireless frequency.
Now they are not only extending the double data promotion but doubling the data for individual plans as well. They aren't doing it just to be generous. And the more amazing thing is that they offered the double data ON THEIR OWN. In fact, Sprint and Verizon had to react by matching the offer that THEY STARTED for no reason.
I just feel there is something really fishy going on and the only logical conclusion is that they will be forced to uplift the throttling and because of this, they need to do anything they can to reduce the number of unlimited plan holders.
If they are forced to withdraw from throttling, they'll just remove option to keep the unlimited plan when upgrading.
There is truly no reason for single line plans to give up unlimited unless you are using such a tremendous amount of data. I've had unlimited since first offered. I checked out changing and giving it up, but iunless my usage pattern changes, not a real bargain for me. However, if ATT drives to force me off unlimited, I'd go to Verizon for slightly better phone coverage and now you can talk and data on Verizon, so no loss there.
That was Verizon's response to AT&T's new extension and offers, not the other way around. AT&T started this.
Irrelevant who started it. If Verizon sweetens the pot, at&t has to respond accordingly or they'll lose even if they started the domino effect.
But if you ever talk to AT&T (about anything) with an upgrade plan, they keep pushing consumers to drop it and go to pay-as-you-go data. If they wanted the whole upgrade to be hush-hush, why keep hustling customers at every contact??
Because while they're talking to you they feel that they can decide how hard to push and when to back off if it's going poorly.
If they sent out a mass "here's what we're doing" e-mail they don't have that control.
Also, a mass "we're killing the whole thing" plan would get a lot of attention from sites like MacRumors whereas talking to people as they call in doesn't really generate news stories.
I think this has more to do with market competition. Verizon just announced similar deals and dropped prices on their 10GB shared plans. Obviously anything is possible. Anything either of us says is speculation at best though, right?