AT&T Data Throttling

[Slowhand]

Piss poor planning on their part doesn't constitute an emergency on mine.

To plan for the kind of infrastructures needs the wireless firms have right now would have required them to start planning before the technology was in existence (not entirely unreasonable, I guess), but also (more importantly, and impossibly) start building the infrastructure before the technology existed.

[racrguy]

To plan for the kind of infrastructures needs the wireless firms have right now would have required them to start planning before the technology was in existence (not entirely unreasonable, I guess), but also (more importantly, and impossibly) start building the infrastructure before the technology existed.

I stand by what I said. If you sell me a product/service I expect you to live up to your end of the deal. Sure, the technology may not have existed at the time, but as soon as it did they should have rolled it out just as quickly as they could to meet customer demands. It's the cost of doing business. If you sell an unlimited plan and it turns out to be a bigger thing than you think it was you need to eat the cost of upgrading your equipment, not jam it to the customers.

[Slowhand]

I stand by what I said. If you sell me a product/service I expect you to live up to your end of the deal. Sure, the technology may not have existed at the time, but as soon as it did they should have rolled it out just as quickly as they could to meet customer demands. It's the cost of doing business. If you sell an unlimited plan and it turns out to be a bigger thing than you think it was you need to eat the cost of upgrading your equipment, not jam it to the customers.

They are eating the cost of upgrading their equipment; it's simply physically impossible to keep up with (although I've no clue whether they're really pushing the limits of what they can actually get done on a infrastructure level). Furthermore, so long as customers keep shelling out the money, then the wireless companies meeting customer demand, economically. And when you've got an oligopoly combined with a good/service that consumers can't live without, you get this.

And it's still an unlimited plan. you get all the data you can possibly want, you just get it at variable rate speeds. it was outlined in the service contract, regardless of the fact that no one reads them. and the cherry on top is that this effects a minority that is very vocal and savvy, but a very minor minority nonetheless.

[Tx Redneck]

It is not unlimited data because the speed governing effectively limits the level at which you can consume it.

Unlimited means without restrictions, unfettered, not governed.

Sent from my iPhail eleventybillion

[Tx Redneck]

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111315125550019591892/posts/JDQHDjZYxAQ

[juic3d]

Yea I got the same text message just curious.. Can they really cut your data

[Blackpony]

It is not unlimited data because the speed governing effectively limits the level at which you can consume it.

Unlimited means without restrictions, unfettered, not governed.

Sent from my iPhail eleventybillion

^^ this..

My problem is I am paying $30 a month for an unlimited plan, and they cut my speeds by 700% after only 1.3 gb of usage? That is fucking bullshit. I can understand if I were using 5gb or more then ok, but not even half of the entry level plan they want me to have? That is where I have a problem. Even if I used 3gb and they slowed me down I would be fine, as for the same money I would be having to pay them more money for going over my plan.

[Gtracer]

Read somewhere this morning that people were filling lawsuits out against them for this. Can’t seem to find the article but I will keep looking. The user contract you sign prevents anyone from entering into a class action lawsuit so therefore people must act individually.

[Slowhand]

It is not unlimited data because the speed governing effectively limits the level at which you can consume it.

Unlimited means without restrictions, unfettered, not governed.

Sent from my iPhail eleventybillion

Unlimited speed ≠ Unlimited quantity. And by that logic, the capabilities of the infrastructure limit the level at which you can consume data, so those fuckers have been lying about unlimited from day one! We are the 99%!

[Gtracer]

Unlimited speed ≠ Unlimited quantity. And by that logic, the capabilities of the infrastructure limit the level at which you can consume data, so those fuckers have been lying about unlimited from day one! We are the 99%!

Never noticed with Sprint

[ram57ta]

I can only hope that 25% of the users being fucked by AT&T sue and win in court. Thats gonna cost AT&T some serious coin.

[houstondallas]

They just had the first lawsuit finished in California over this. The guy won. He sued for $850 which is what it was going to cost him to change over to per GB plan based on his current usage until the end of his contract.

Id seriously considering suing in small claims if I get throttled next month esp after this guy already won.

[Butch]

Piss poor planning on their part doesn't constitute an emergency on mine.

You don't really suspect anyone at AT&T planning anything, do you?

[Taylor]

If y'all think the rest of the providers aren't about to do the same, you're a moron.


It does suck though.

ATT users have been saying this since the throttling began. I've yet to see/hear of any throttling with Sprint.

[diablo rojo]

If y'all think the rest of the providers aren't about to do the same, you're a moron.


It does suck though.

Yeah, I just got my email from T-Mobile stating that my (already sucky) data speeds would be trottled even more while "off-network or roaming". Well that's 90% of the fucking country and I travel for a living.