AT&T and throttling: How do other carriers handle data-hungry users?
In today’s Always On column, I round up for print-edition readers the blog posts I wrote last week (here and here) about AT&T’s throttling of its grandfathered unlimited wireless data plan...
View ArticleLinkpost | 12.24.2012
• Throttling unlimited data plans is pointless, study finds – That study also concludes that AT&T is likely throttling just to force people to move to a tiered plan. • Flashback Mac Trojan Horse...
View ArticleUnlimited data customer challenges AT&T’s throttling in court . . . and wins...
A judge ruled against the company in small claims court, awarding Matt Spaccarelli $850.
View ArticleAT&T relaxes its unlimited data throttling policy
AT&T has relaxed its policy of throttling customers with grandfathered, unlimited data plans and now will not begin doing so for its 3G customers until they use 3 gigabytes of data. Previously,...
View ArticleAT&T wants to settle with – and silence – the customer who sued over throttling
When we last saw Matt Spaccarelli, the AT&T smartphone customer had just won a small but significant legal victory. Last month, he challenged Ma Bell 2.0 in California small claims court over it...
View ArticleLinkpost | 3.17.2012
• AT&T scotches appeal, pays small-claims litigant – AT&T drops its plan to appeal and ponies up the $850 awarded to Matt Spaccarelli in a California small-claims court. Spaccarelli had sued...
View ArticleT-Mobile agrees to show true throttled speeds
Part of T-Mobile’s “Un-Carrier” pitch is that the company doesn’t charge overages when its customers exceed their data caps. Instead, your data speed is slowed drastically. Unfortunately, T-Mobile...
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