Virgin Mobile To Start Throttling Broadband2Go

Daevad writes "Virgin Mobile sent an e-mail today informing me of their plans to start throttling the Broadband2Go Plan. The web site doesn't seem to reflect the change yet, but here is the message they sent to me: 'Here at Virgin Mobile, our mission is to deliver an outstanding customer experience. Sometimes that means making difficult choices in order to provide the best possible service to the greatest number of customers. To make sure we can keep offering our $40 Unlimited Broadband2Go Plan at such a great price, we're putting a speed limit in place for anyone on that plan who uses over 5GB in a month. How will it work? Starting February 15, 2011, if you go over 5GB in a month on the $40 Unlimited Plan: Your data speeds will be limited for the remainder of the monthly plan cycle. During this time, you may experience slower page loads and file downloads and lags in streaming media. Your data speeds will return to normal as soon as you buy a new Broadband2Go Plan. This change will only affect plans bought on or after 2/15/2011. How will it affect me? Keep in mind, 5GB is A LOT of data. To give you an idea, it's about 250 hours of web browsing or over 500,000(!) emails. So this change shouldn't affect you unless you're a heavy downloader/streamer/etc.'" Just when I was getting comfortable recommending it to people, too. I do prefer a slowdown to an absolute cap, but this sours me a bit on the (locked-to-Sprint) MiFi I bought to use the Virgin service.

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Virgin Mobile, where? Which country?

[Mr0bvious]

Don't the Slashdot editors know that Slashdot is read globally? I'm so sick of reading Slashdot articles where the author assumes that the all readers live across the street from them!

Common, how hard is it to provide some geographical context to your articles..

FYI: Virgin Mobile exists in more that one country (Australia, Canada, France, India, Qatar, South Africa, UK and US) - I'm pretty sure it doesn't apply to all operations.

Wake up! There are lots of countries that have access to the Internet, pull you heads out of your a**es and recognise the rest of the world exists.