AT&T throttling unlimited customers in Houston
On Sunday and Monday, Feb. 5-6, I asked on Twitter if Houston-area AT&T customers with grandfathered unlimited data plans had been throttled. Here are the responses.
- From Mills McCoin:
@dsilverman Right here. By the end of my billing cycle (2/7), I will have spent 19 days on "reduced data speeds".- @dsilverman 1 They said I was in the "Top 5%". 2 The speed reduction is glaringly noticeable. 3 I dabbled in college.
- @dsilverman I haven't done any speed tests because the speed reduction is so flagrant.
@MillsMcCoin Aren't you curious as to how low they are? Would love to hear what they're throttling to.- @dsilverman Boom. Download: 0.09 Mbps Upload: 1.17 Mbps Ping: 80 ms speedtest.net/iphone/2053514…
- From 3rdCoastChick
@dsilverman I got warning text & email last month (4GB), supposed to start throttling me soon if I approach "top 5% threshold" again.- @dsilverman YouTube & Livestream watching, I don't have wifi at home, it's my only internet connection.
- From Chris Hokanson
@dsilverman I've only received the letter once, in either October or November. I had 10+ GBs.- @chris_hokanson very interesting, thanks. it was a LETTER, as opposed to an email or a text?
- @dsilverman not sure. Letter said the throttling would only be until the end of my cycle and I got the letter the day before.
- From Natotx
- @dsilverman called,not throttled YET. Text I got and data usage when I got it. #attFAIL twitpic.com/8g5lb9 twitpic.com/8g5lby
@dsilverman Half of the time. That's where my bill gets sent. And prob where I use the AT&T network the most. 832 number...
@dsilverman I was informed that I was "among the top 5% of data users" at the beginning of January. Since then, I've used Wi-Fi where I can.
