You know, I'll bet they could just start cutting people off for doing that, like Comcrap does to people on their home Internet? My understanding is they do that with a warning, a second offense and they cut your service! When you look at that, throttling is a better option, no?
mercdizzle wrote:
Welp, since you say you provide unlimited, though at reduced speeds, it seems I have 1mbps on the upload, so I'm going to download a torrent over wifi, then seed it on my data connection till the end of my billing cylce. Toodles.
spd2demun wrote:You know, I'll bet they could just start cutting people off for doing that, like Comcrap does to people on their home Internet? My understanding is they do that with a warning, a second offense and they cut your service! When you look at that, throttling is a better option, no?
mercdizzle wrote:Welp, since you say you provide unlimited, though at reduced speeds, it seems I have 1mbps on the upload, so I'm going to download a torrent over wifi, then seed it on my data connection till the end of my billing cylce. Toodles.
Done this 3 month straight, still awaiting them to contact me.
spd2demun wrote:You know, I'll bet they could just start cutting people off for doing that, like Comcrap does to people on their home Internet? My understanding is they do that with a warning, a second offense and they cut your service! When you look at that, throttling is a better option, no?
Except, this isn't about cutoff vs. throttling, and which would be a better option...neither is acceptable. This is about AT&T using vague, unsubstantiated critera for effctively rendering an unlimited data plan useless, and strong-arming longtime, loyal customers into tiered data plans in which AT&T can charge for data overages, the way they can't in the unlimited plan.
They'll never respond here, and once they do publicly, I'd expect this thread to be closed (but not deleted). 
tken wrote:
1000+ post, it's about time they responded in some form of public statement. That or go the easy route and just delete this thread, it's about time for some censorship.
spd2demun wrote:They'll never respond here, and once they do publicly, I'd expect this thread to be closed (but not deleted).
tken wrote:1000+ post, it's about time they responded in some form of public statement. That or go the easy route and just delete this thread, it's about time for some censorship.
Naahh, they won't close it. Once this thread gets to a certain size, they'll just route this thread through a server with a 300 baud dial-up connection to the internet!
We'll still be able to post to it all we want, it'll just be a little slower, so that the other threads can have a fair chance to be seen.
spd2demun wrote:
They'll never respond here, and once they do publicly, I'd expect this thread to be closed (but not deleted).
tken wrote:
1000+ post, it's about time they responded in some form of public statement. That or go the easy route and just delete this thread, it's about time for some censorship.
the thread discussing the sunsetting of the "no data plan required on a smartphone" feature was about 7 times larger then this one, it was never closed, it just died off when people accepted that ti was not going to change anything
seajohn wrote:
spd2demun wrote:They'll never respond here, and once they do publicly, I'd expect this thread to be closed (but not deleted).
tken wrote:1000+ post, it's about time they responded in some form of public statement. That or go the easy route and just delete this thread, it's about time for some censorship.
Naahh, they won't close it. Once this thread gets to a certain size, they'll just route this thread through a server with a 300 baud dial-up connection to the internet!
We'll still be able to post to it all we want, it'll just be a little slower, so that the other threads can have a fair chance to be seen.
BEST post yet !
I`m sure ATT will do something, like tell us that they are raising to start at 2.5GB or something like that, but it wont be drastic... They are not able to get a hold of their expansion of the network, the backhauls are so congested that networks are crumbling down, my LTE is so congested at times that I can only get 50Mbits of data and I think I should be throttle at 1.6GB or even less then that !
/Sarcasm
