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AT&T To Start Data Throttling Heaviest Users

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-like-a-martial-arts-demonstration dept.

greymond writes "AT&T has announced that starting on Oct. 1 it will throttle the data speeds of users with unlimited data plans who exceed bandwidth thresholds on its 3G network. AT&T is following in the tracks Verizon and Virgin Mobile in reducing data throughput speeds of its heaviest mobile data users."

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  1. am I the only person who thinks this a good thing? by enigmatichmachine · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I mean, I want my service to work, because it's not overloaded all the time, and this fixes that problem without
    a. Hard caps
    b. overages.

    seems to me, saying you'll get 3g speeds for the first 2gb/mo, and edge speeds after that is the best way to solve the problem. SO long as it's publicized. if you don't like it, too bad, I'm tired of shitty service because some folks use their hacked Iphones to download torrents all day.

    that said, if the service still sucks, or the cap it too low, leave.

    --
    -and occasionaly a giant moose.
  2. Re:I work for a phone company... by hedwards · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This isn't interesting it's complete bullshit. I pay my ISP to provide the bandwidth and Youtube pays their ISP to provide bandwidth, the bandwidth has been paid for. I don't get money off my bill at the end of the month if my ISP was able to serve me up a cached version, so why on Earth should the ISP get to cheat me like that?

    From your post the take home message here is that we need more regulation to clamp down on ISPs' and their fraudulent advertising practices. If they can't provide the advertised speed then they shouldn't be pretending to offer it, it's just that simple.