A month after the FTC announce thatit was suing AT&T for throttlingthe fluid internet speed for unlimited information customers , a new report show that the wireless company is limit even more customers than previously thought . It looks like 4 G LTE customersnow get to enjoy half - Mb speed . That ’s so slow it basically render your headphone useless .
Well , is n’t this a nice petty dose of the holiday spirit ? AT&T seems absolutely happyoffering new customers throttle - free data plans , but those who ’ve been grandfathered in on older outright plans continue to get bed over . While AT&T did limit data throttling on most bequest limitless plan to times of high-pitched connection congestion , anArs Technica investigation showsthat the wireless carrier is still strangle LTE customers after they ’ve used 5 GB of data , disregardless of connection congestion . This is especially disdainful , since LTE customers have invest in the better technology to get the fastest data speeds . And they ’re paying for unlimited data , not limit limitless information .
AT&T is plainly well mindful of all of this . All non - LTE customers can expect to get their data point throttled after they ’ve used 3 - gigabyte , but the throttling is only speculate to happen in a congested area . “ Once technologically available , we require to adopt the same model for customers with 4 G LTE smartphones on straight-out plans sometime in 2015 , ” AT&T representative Seth Bloom told Gizmodo in an e-mail .
The FCC’sbeen putting an increasing amount of pressureon all wireless carrier to terminate this strangling business . But why would they do that when it help them make more net profit ? possibly if companies like AT&T and Verizonthrow enough money at down net neutrality , everyone will just exclude up about it . [ Ars Technica ]
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