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If 2 GB is excessive, why is AT&T selling 3-GB mobile data plans?
gigaom.com
When AT&T first implemented its throttling policies on unlimited mobile data plans last fall, it justified the move by claiming it had to limit the “extraordinary” consumption of a few greedy smartphone customers. We’re starting now to get a glimpse of what AT&T means by extraordinary. It’s only 2 GB...
AT&T announces throttling changes, now kicks in at 3GB or 5GB for LTE
www.engadget.com
Anyone hoping for some truly unlimited "unlimited" plans is still out of luck, but AT&T has announced some changes (or a clarification, as it puts it) to its throttling procedures today that will at least give you a bit more room to work with. For customers on an unlimited plan...
AT&T Officially Makes Unlimited Data Plans Not So Unlimited With New Throttling Rules
techcrunch.com
Welcome to the brave new world, everyone. AT&T announced today new guidelines in regards to older so-called unlimited data plans. Subscribers will still be able to keep these plans but they’re essentially limited to AT&T’s new 3GB/5GB data plans. Let’s be clear: AT&T’s unlimited plans are now officially limited. AT&T,...
Throttled iPhone user balks at AT&T settlement request, vows to help others
arstechnica.com
AT&T is making an attempt to quietly settle with the iPhone user who was recently awarded $850 in a lawsuit over AT&T's data-throttling practices, but the user in question doesn't want any part of it. Instead, he's committed to fighting AT&T and hopes other subscribers follow his example by...
AT&T relents on unlimited data throttling, increases cap to 3GB for HSPA+ and 5GB for LTE
www.theverge.com
AT&T has announced today that it is retooling the throttling policy on its unlimited smartphone data plan, a legacy offering still in use by many customers — largely because it was long the standard-issue package sold alongside the iPhone. The new cap will be 3GB for customers on HSPA+...
Cloud Storage Competition Heats Up With RiakCS
www.readwriteweb.com
Add Basho to the companies looking to take a chunk of the cloud storage space. Today, the company announced RiakCS, a "multi-tenant, distributed, S3-compatible cloud storage platform" that runs on top of the Riak-distributed database. The question isn't really whether Basho can cut into Amazon's business, but how much. According...
AT&T amends data throttling policy: 5GB for LTE smartphones, 3GB for non-LTE
www.bgr.com
AT&T on Thursday announced a revision to its smartphone data throttling policy, which impacts users who have chosen to retain the unlimited smartphone data plan AT&T discontinued some time ago. AT&T’s policy had been ambiguous until now, with the carrier stating simply that the top 5% of smartphone users...
Q&A: How to Avoid Getting Throttled
blogs.wsj.com
AT&T is effectively ending unlimited data plans, saying it will no longer let customers use more than a set amount of data per month without penalty. Under a new policy, AT&T will slow download speeds for unlimited 3G and 4G smartphone customers who exceed 3 gigabytes and 4G LTE users who...
The New iPad Is Already Crushing Owners' Data Plans (VZ, T, AAPL)
www.businessinsider.com
Isn't LTE wonderful? That speedy new wireless standard feels like a godsend compared to 3G. Verizon and AT&T say their LTE networks are about 10 times as fast as 3G. In reality, it's often much, much faster than that. We've used both networks in the New York City area...
Windows Phone 8: unannounced features include Data Smart, cloud-based IE10, and SkyDrive integration
www.theverge.com
Yesterday, Microsoft finally took the wraps off Windows Phone 8, unveiling a whole host of new features — but the company didn't quite have the time to give us all the details, instead focusing on eight major features of the updated OS. There's a lot more new under the...
Windows Phone 8: unannounced features include Data Smart, cloud-based IE10, and SkyDrive integration
Thanks AT&T! You Finally Gave Me A Reason To Switch To Verizon (T)
www.businessinsider.com
There's no doubt about it. Today, AT&T decided to punish some of its most loyal customers by effectively killing their unlimited data plans. Here's what happened. There have been various reports over the last few months that AT&T was intentionally slowing data speeds for customers with unlimited data plans....
A Comprehensive Guide To All Those Confusing Smartphone Data Plans (T, VZ, S, DT)
www.businessinsider.com
There's been a lot of hubbub recently over mobile carriers purposefully slowing down data speeds for customers still on unlimited plans. It's nothing new, at least for the last year or so. But what is kind of new, confusing, and insanely frustrating is how and when carriers decide to...
AT&T Comes Clean About How And Why It Slows Down Some Users' Data Speeds (T)
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After some controversy surrounding its data throttling policies for unlimited data subscribers, AT&T has released a clear and consistent policy starting today for 3G and some 4G users. Full announcement below. Refresh this post for updates. ---- With mobile data usage continuing to skyrocket and the availability of spectrum...
AT&T lifts some restrictions on its “unlimited” data plans
venturebeat.com
AT&T announced today it is easing up on its “unlimited” data plan restrictions, bowing to public pressure. Previously, AT&T would slow down your data service if you were among the top 5 percent heaviest data users in your area for each month. Now, to get a slow down, you’ve got...
AT&T Starts Throttling Unlimited Data Users after 2GB of Monthly Usage
www.macrumors.com
In October, AT&T announced that they would start throttling data usage amongst Unlimited Data Plan users. While AT&T no longer offers an Unlimited Data plan to new customers, many of the original iPhone purchasers are still grandfathered into that plan. Those iPhone users have been able to retain these Unlimited...
AT&T Eases Grip, Introduces Kinder, Gentler Throttling
allthingsd.com
AT&T is rejiggering its unlimited data throttling policy after consumers complained that it was too heavy-handed. The carrier, while never making the cap point clear, had been slowing service when consumers hit about 2GB of usage within a billing cycle. Today, it announced two formal choke points: 3GB for customers...
Wireless data: What it really takes to get you throttled on AT&T
www.geekwire.com
AT&T today got more specific about how it will handle heavy usage of its wireless network by people grandfathered in to unlimited data plans. In the past, the company has said that it reduces speeds after people enter the top 5 percent of data usage. But that left vague...
Sins Of The Cloud
techcrunch.com
Editor’s Note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital. Follow him on Twitter @ahaislip. In the beginning there was the cloud. And it was good. But over time it can also be surprisingly expensive. If you’ve ever...
If AT&T throttles you, are you entitled to $850?
9to5mac.com
In a decision that will inevitably lead to similar cases in the future, Associated Press reports a judge in California has awarded an iPhone user $850 in a small claims case filed against AT&T claiming the company throttled data speeds of his iPhone 4′s unlimited data plan. According to...
AT&T CEO: “My only regret” was unlimited data
venturebeat.com
Regrets? We’ve all had a few. But AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said his big whoopsie was offering an unlimited data package for AT&T customers. “My only regret was how we introduced pricing… Thirty dollars, and you get all you can eat,” he said at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference....
Here Are The Best iPhone and iPad Apps You Missed This Week
www.businessinsider.com
Check out these awesome apps that are sure your supercharge your iOS experience. This week's apps include updates to popular favorites Foursquare and SoundHound; a new brain twisting puzzle game; better ways to monitor your data usage and much more.Foursquare Foursquare updated their popular location-based app this week and we...
Salesforce.com Likes Facebook, Loves Big Deals Ahead of Earnings Report
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Shares of Salesforce.com are surging this morning on a batch of analyst reports saying the company closed some significant deals toward the end of its quarter. Earlier today Salesforce’s stock price was up by more than 3 percent, though it has now settled a bit, and is up a more...
How T-Mobile’s roaming data caps would affect you
gigaom.com
Tmo News has it that T-Mobile is about to restrict roaming data usage to cut down on the amount of packets its customers consume when off the carrier’s networks. If true, the new restrictions could affect a lot of T-Mobile’s customers, though the size of the impact on each customer...
T-Mobile to tighten the purse strings, limit data roaming starting April 5th
www.engadget.com
We've just come across an internal T-Mobile memo that will certainly give a few customers a moment of pause: come April 5th, it seems the carrier will impose new, restrictive limits that affect data usage when roaming. Hot on the heels of the network's roaming pact with AT&T, the...
Rumor Mill: T-Mobile to impose data roaming caps
www.fiercewireless.com
Starting April 5, T-Mobile USA plans to limit the amount of data that its customers can use while roaming onto the networks of other carriers, according to the blog TMoNews, which cited internal T-Mobile documents. Importantly, customers who exceed their limits won't be able to use data services while roaming...
T-Mobile to tighten the purse strings, limit data roaming starting April 5th
www.engadget.com
We've just come across an internal T-Mobile memo that will certainly give a few customers a moment of pause: come April 5th, it seems the carrier will impose new, restrictive limits that affect data usage when roaming. Hot on the heels of the network's roaming pact with AT&T, the...
How T-Mobile’s roaming data caps would affect you
gigaom.com
Tmo News has it that T-Mobile is about to restrict roaming data usage to cut down on the amount of packets its customers consume when off the carrier’s networks. If true, the new restrictions could affect a lot of T-Mobile’s customers, though the size of the impact on each customer...
Comcast: 'Unlimited Usage' Doesn't Mean 'Unlimited Usage'
consumerist.com
In January, Consumerist reader Matt received a brochure from Comcast touting their high-speed Internet service with "Unlimited usage for a flat, monthly rate." But only one month after upgrading to Comcast's "Ultra Tier," he found out that, well... "unlimited" actually means "limited." Here's Matt describing the call he just...
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