Make no mistake. AT&T’s throttling tactics are a slap in the face to the millions of people who still feed them their hard earned cash. If the carrier were more clear about said plans or had some sort of minimum data cap in place instead, it wouldn’t be so bad. But having instances where someone who has used only 1-1.5 GB on an “unlimited” data plan throttled to unusable dial-up speeds is completely and utterly ridiculous, and even more-so when...
When AT&T announced that they were doing away with their unlimited plan back in the summer of 2010, it made us sad. Capped data just isn’t a good solution for customers. Some joy could be found, however, in the fact that unlimited data users could be grandfathered into the future with their free-for-all data plans after capped data plans took effect. Fast forward a few months and then AT&T’s anti-consumer habits grew stronger; they started throttling...
We all knew it was coming — T-Mobile USA is joining the ranks of AT&T in actively marketing their data restriction policies. While all of the major US carriers have always maintained the right to cut you off if you plowed through a magical, unknown threshold. In the age of smartphone dominance, however, that limit is now finally being more clearly defined — albeit at absurdly low limits. But unlike AT&T’s overly expensive and restrictive data...
No one likes to see their “unlimited” data plan that they pay for each month shackled and stoned into limited oblivion. But that’s exactly what is sweeping across the mobile industry as of late. (Thanks AT&T!) Even though Sprint CEO Dan Hesse was recently heard saying Sprint “had no plans to change data plans”, news of data throttling coming to Spring is still far better news than what others (read: AT&T) have employed. The rumor is...
Remember those stupid “It’s Comcastic” commercials. Ya, I like many others had a few choice opinions about them too. If you thought just because there hasn’t been any mention of “Comcast” and “Throttling” in the same sentence for some time that somehow all the parties involved forgot, you were grossly wrong. New details of a retooled and just as anti-consumer policy have surfaced. In fact, Comcast’s new throttling...
