AT&T has lost a court case to 39-year-old Matt Spaccarelli, over smartphone data throttling.
Spaccarelli is an iPhone owner who has AT&T's grandfathered unlimited data plan. In 2010, the carrier discontinued the plan and moved to tiered pricing. In 2011, the carrier began to throttle heavy data users down from 3G to 2G. Spaccarelli says his device began to see the slow speeds after just ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by xaznboitx: i wonder who's idea to throttle internet speed... i bet it's the media due to copyright files
You are certainly right to distrust the media, however, as it is not in the media's best interest to throttle data, they would only do so when the government ordered them to.
In fact, throttling, for the time being, is a reasonable business decision; the carriers tried to roll out 4G faster than they could update the system, this led to complaints of slow speed because of the limited bandwidth. Updated equipment takes time to manufacture and install, until this is done - throttling is the only option.
That's cool, I can wait - it will be worth it.
if your paying for a service and dont get that service you are entitled to sue or be refunded for the service which wasnt what you paid for.glad he won the case and i think the judge made the right decision.
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Originally posted by xaznboitx: i wonder who's idea to throttle internet speed... i bet it's the media due to copyright files
You are certainly right to distrust the media, however, as it is not in the media's best interest to throttle data, they would only do so when the government ordered them to.
You actually believe that the government ordered at&t to throttle their bandwidth? I hope your not that ignorant, but I guess there always has to be someone standing up for corporate America.
Good thing the Judge didn't agree with you.
Sorry if I was not sufficiently clear in my post. I said that the govt. did NOT tell them to throttle bandwidth.
