Regardless, unlimited means "no limits". Throttling constitutes a limit. ALL carriers need to either get rid of the use of the word "unlimited" or stop throttling us. I hope that's the way the courts see it b
Alice
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On Mar 1, 2012, at 12:08 PM, "AnneL" <shadow484@comcast.net> wrote:
>> I am so glad to see AT&T lay out the rules in plain English. The top 5%
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>> very ambiguous and could change from month to month.
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> It's better that they have a threshold that at least users can understand,
> but it's still going to get them in trouble both in court and in the market.
> As the article states, they're still imposing an artificial limitation
> that's applied disparately with the other users. They're going to end up in
> court while the court decides whether that still constitutes "unlimited."
> In the market, other carriers like Verizon are going to be able to smile
> virtuously and say, "Hey, we only throttle top users when there's actual
> congestion in their particular area, and then they go back to normal
> speeds," which is believable network management, while AT&T chooses to use
> throttling as punishment instead, by throttling for the rest of the billing
> period, regardless of congestion. So for the exact same amount of data
> used, you could end up being throttled for weeks on AT&T versus a few hours,
> or even not at all, depending on when and where you have your heaviest data
> usage, on Verizon.
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> Anne
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