AT&T throttles unlimited data plans
There is nothing like long term customer appreciate from At&T s iPhone users.Got the unlimited plan per 2010? maybe you do and maybe you dont. Like the governer on a motor that prevents and restricts the engine to certain speeds,so is the grandfathered unlimited date plan from AT&T.
AT&T surprises customers with limits for ‘unlimited data’ usage; heat is on “5 percenters
NEW YORK — Mike Trang likes to use his iPhone 4 as a GPS device, helping him get around in his job. Now and then, his younger cousins get ahold of it, and play some YouTube videos and games.
But in the past few weeks, there has been none of that, because AT&T Inc. put a virtual wheel clamp on his phone. Web pages wouldn’t load and maps wouldn’t render. Forget about YouTube videos — Trang’s data speeds were reduced to dial-up levels.
“It basically makes my phone useless,” said Trang, an Orange County, Calif. property manager.
The reason: AT&T considers Trang to be among the top 5 percent of the heaviest cellular data users in his area. Under a new policy, AT&T has started cutting their data speeds as part of an attempt to manage data usage on its network.So last month, AT&T “throttled” Trang’s iPhone, slowing downloads by roughly 99 percent. That means a web page that would normally take a second to load instead took almost two minutes.
AT&T has some 17 million customers with “unlimited data” plans that can be subject to throttling, representing just under half of its smartphone users. It stopped signing up new customers for those plans in 2010, and warned last year that it would start slowing speeds for people who consume the most data.
WOW … 99% I see now why he is saying that it made his iphone usage almost worthless. I think I would be looking for another provider. No sense having a iPhone if you cannot use its features.
So just how much was he using per month I bet it was a bunch? Nope just alittle over 2 gigs
Trang’s iPhone was throttled just two weeks into his billing cycle, after he’d consumed 2.3 gigabytes of data. He pays $30 per month for “unlimited” data. Meanwhile, Dallas-based AT&T now sells a limited, or “tiered,” plan that provides 3 gigabytes of data for the same price.
Really? Perhaps AT&T needs to look at spending some of that iphone money they have been taking in and upgrade their service, not short-sheet the customers that have been grandfathered in (long term customers)
