If you ’ve still pay off an unlimited AT&T data plan that you ’re agree onto for pricey liveliness to pour gig and gig of Spotify and Netflix and god knows what else , your life isabout to sop up a lot more .
Even if you ’re grandfathered in with one of those adept - old - days unlimited design , the all - you - can - eat - as - fast - as - you - require data design as we know it is die . But it have worse .
The official word :
bulge October 1 , smartphone customers with unlimited data plans may experience reduced speeds once their use in a charge wheel reach the stage that puts them among the top 5 percent of grave data point users . These customers can still utilise straight-out data and their speed will be restored with the start of the next charge cycle per second . Before you are affected , we will cater multiple card , including a grace period .
That means there ’s efficaciously a rolling jacket crown for citizenry with an unlimited data plan : If you ’re in the top 5 percent of data users in a month , your cyberspace ’s going to be slow down for the repose of the calendar month . It wo n’t put on to anybody that ’s on a tiered data architectural plan and yield for every byte they use .
AT&T aver that “ to order among the top 5 percent , you have to apply an extraordinary amount of data point in a undivided billing period . ” Sounds reasonable . But ! How much data is the top 5 percent using ? Well , consider that a year agowhen AT&T move to tiered plans , AT&T aver that 2 GB satisfied 97 per centum of their customers . No doubt , that number ’s shift a bit over the last yr , as services like Rdio and Netflix have gotten more popular but 2 GB is belike not a regretful baseline to start potentially sweating over . talk of Rdio , that ’s precisely who AT&T ’s sound off about — people who are “ pour very heavy sum of money of picture and music daily over the wireless web , not Wi - Fi ” or using “ streaming video apps , remote web camera apps , sending large information files ( like television ) and some online gaming . ”
https://gizmodo.com/at-t-just-killed-unlimited-wireless-data-and-screwed-e-5553418
While AT&T makes the pointedness that this slowdown business concern is never going to screw normal users by definition , since as the ordinary information utilization grows , so will the cap , it does in effect kill unlimited datum for the people who most rely on it . Verizon ’s doing the same thing , slow up down its top 5 percent of data users . And T - Mobile throttles users who fall apart their allotted capital for their month . Throw in rumors that Verizon ( and I ’d suspect AT&T ) are pushing to only allow FaceTime chat for users with tiered plans . They ’re all effectively throwing down : Speed or volume . You pluck . But you ’re gon na bear for it , one way or another .
https://gizmodo.com/hello-data-hog-verizons-about-to-slow-you-down-and-c-5750903
Neither AT&T nor Verizon are say how much they ’re gon na slow up down the big bandwidth feeder , but T - Mobile officially slow down down data overeaters to EDGE speed . ( Unofficially , there are isolated reports of T - Mobile throttling to be so severe phones are much unuseable . ) God cognise it ca n’t be much worse than some of the speed I see in NY on my iPhone .
The thing is , AT&T is n’t full of shit when they say bandwidth on peregrine networks is not an infinite resource . It ’s true that there ’s only so much backhaul and so much spectrum . What ’s stinking is that AT&T is using this as another stratagem in theirPR warto convince hoi polloi that the T - Mobile uniting has to happen . At the end of the press release , AT&T says slowing down the biggest data hogs on the web is n’t enough , that “ nothing light of completing the T - Mobile merger will provide extra spectrum capacitance to treat these nigh term challenges . ”
https://gizmodo.com/at-t-tells-the-fcc-it-wants-t-mobile-because-it-cant-ha-5794569
They ’re basically aver that if the merger does n’t materialise , their inspection and repair — which is already deplorable ( if improving ) in NY , SF and LA — is going to go along to get bad as people only expect to get what that they make up for from their datum plans and smartphones . And that ’s even as they keep changing the rules of the biz , killing limitless data point plans and now crippling them for their heaviest user . AT&T ’s hold up their own services hostage , even while for the last duet of years they kept telling us how affair were going to get good .
So when do things start getting better ? I ’m still hold back . [ AT&T ]
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