at&t to begin throttling 'unlimited' data plan holders

[CexMashean]

Eggzachery. Jumped to Verizon for a bill at the same price, with 4gb of lte instead of 2gb of "4g" with at&t.

[Slowhand]

So you use the internet on phone like a home computer on a broadband connection, yet you're surprised when service provider figures that out and starts charging you for using your phone like a home computer with a broadband connection? I get the frustration, but that game has changed, folks.

[bcoop]

So you use the internet on phone like a home computer on a broadband connection, yet you're surprised when service provider figures that out and starts charging you for using your phone like a home computer with a broadband connection?

LOL. Ridiculous. We pay for UNLIMITED data. Period. Are you suggesting AT&T had no way to know that people were going to use the unlimited data they paid for?

[CexMashean]

Well, they aren't being cut off from their unlimited.

[yellowstang]

I guess i'm lucky enough to have the company wifi available to me when i need to stream movies, but then i just do it on the computer anyways.
Oh well.

That, and when you get old, the damn screen on every phone is too small to watch a movie on!!!

[90GT50]

So you use the internet on phone like a home computer on a broadband connection, yet you're surprised when service provider figures that out and starts charging you for using your phone like a home computer with a broadband connection? I get the frustration, but that game has changed, folks.

30 a month is about the cost of typical home broadband with no limits, yet with cell providers, the same amount is a slower speed and not unlimited. Makes perfect sense to me.

[johnny--2k]

glad I left att when I did. Their plans are too expensive, and their customer service, IMO, is worse than sprint. Never had a problem on my end, don't use enough data to have that problem, but sprint has been great to me the past 6 years or so...and I like my discount! 27% off monthly, yes please!

[94form2000z]

Switch to Sprint's unlimited and be done with it.

[Turbosvo]

I'm at 13 days of my billing cycle and have already used 2.4gb

[Avery'sDad]

The part I don't get is being over 2 gigs is the top 5%. I bet at least 40% of users are around 2 gigs.

[Ruffdaddy]

I can't wait for the government to tax bandwidth usage because of the people streaming everything possible. It does affect pollution and would be easy to justify.

[Slowhand]

30 a month is about the cost of typical home broadband with no limits, yet with cell providers, the same amount is a slower speed and not unlimited. Makes perfect sense to me.

Newer infrastructure = expensive, higher fixed costs, so high cost to consumers. It's not the same service.

[90GT50]

Newer infrastructure = expensive, higher fixed costs, so high cost to consumers. It's not the same service.

I was using sarcasm, it's just the same shit I hear every day at work.

[slow99]

Newer infrastructure = expensive, higher fixed costs, so high cost to consumers. It's not the same service.

Yep, and lol at anyone who thinks only ATT will be doing this sort of thing long term. Mobile data has exploded parabolically and is only growing at an increasingly rapid pace. Conservative estimates have mobile data in 8 years at 100x today's level. Carriers can't accomodate it. Only solutions are cell splitting, increased spectrum, and increased efficiency on the RAN.

[jluv]

Well, they aren't being cut off from their unlimited.

Sure they are. If you put a limit on it, it's not unlimited. They are changing the service after you hit the 2g LIMIT.

I don't think I use that much, but it's pretty fucked up. I assume anyone on that plan could get out of their contract now. Still sucks.