AT&T’s New Throttling Policy Announced…Won’t Screw You as Badly

March 2, 2012 in Commentary, News

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One thing AT&T has shown in the last year is they don’t mind changing the rules of the game in the middle of the game. 聽Yesterday AT&T announced a change in their throttling policy that makes two primary changes. 聽It allows LTE smartphone users up to 5gb of data use, and non-LTE smartphone users up to 3gb. 聽While LTE smartphone users will get a 5gb limit to their “unlimited” data (before throttling kicks in), non-LTE smartphone users barely got a data allotment increase. 聽Non-LTE smartphone users now have a 3gb limit before throttling kicks in (this up from the approx. 2gb it was before). 聽Sorry iPhone users, AT&T doesn’t feel that you deserve more data. 聽But not to worry as AT&T gave their assurance that “you’ll still be able to use as much data as you want. That won’t change. 聽Only your data throughput speed will change if you use 3GB or more in one billing cycle on a 3G or 4G smartphone or 5GB or more on a 4G LTE smartphone.” 聽Okay, let’s call a spade a spade. 聽That’s a bunch of bulls#$% and they know it. 聽Once you’re throttled, your data connection is virtually useless. 聽The speeds they throttle you to are slower than edge. 聽You couldn’t use as much data as you’d like, because the connection speed will not allow it. 聽Once you’re throttled you can forget about streaming a youtube video, that just isn’t going to happen. 聽Once you’re throttled, I hope you aren’t in a hurry when you try to load up that website…because it’s going to take a while. 聽It’s nice that AT&T gave the LTE users a decent data limit before throttling, but they should have instituted that for all unlimited customers regardless of what phone they have. 聽Limiting customers based on their device is ridiculous, but I expect no less out of AT&T. 聽By the way, there’s still that issue of the聽in-call throttling they are doing to ALL of their customers, regardless of what plan they’re on or what phone they have.

 

Source: 聽AT&T

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