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Comments on news posted 2011-07-29 14:57:04: Earlier this year, Verizon Wireless instituted a new throttling system aimed at curtailing the usage of the company's heaviest users. Now according to 9 to 5 Mac, AT&T will be implementing a similar throttling effort during the first week of October. ..

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Gbcue
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AT&T Unlimited Users

You are now welcome to join T-Mobile's much faster robust nationwide 4G HSPA+ network with the same throttling and lower cost.

To those who would rather pay for overages instead of being throttled, I'm sure AT&T would gladly let you switch to a data overage plan.
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kataan
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Yet another reason the merger should not go through!

This is yet another reason the merger should not go through! T-mobile is implementing every thing the mommy AT&T does and says before they even do it. Even under contract my bill has gone from $120 to $205 with no changes. They won't let me change my plan or services and they no longer pro-rate the ETF. As far as I am concerned AT&T and T-mobile have already merged.


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reply to Gbcue

Re: AT&T Unlimited Users

said by Gbcue:

You are now welcome to join T-Mobile's much faster robust nationwide 4G HSPA+ network with the same throttling and lower cost.

To those who would rather pay for overages instead of being throttled, I'm sure AT&T would gladly let you switch to a data overage plan.

And how long will TMO's cost structure and network mgt practices survive the AT&T takeover?
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Gbcue
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Re: Yet another reason the merger should not go through!

said by kataan:

This is yet another reason the merger should not go through! T-mobile is implementing every thing the mommy AT&T does and says before they even do it. Even under contract my bill has gone from $120 to $205 with no changes. They won't let me change my plan or services and they no longer pro-rate the ETF. As far as I am concerned AT&T and T-mobile have already merged.

What are you talking about?

T-Mobile has always throttled after 5GB (back in the day).

What line items have gone up from $120 to $205? It sure isn't tax.
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Duramax08
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for the shits and giggles

i signed up »www.fightthemerger.com/ . Im just wondering if we could get a 4g grandfathered in. But yeah, unlimited is unlimited, PERIOD. Not this "you get slowed down after 2 GB." Dont stop me now AT&T.

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzGwKwLmgM


Chicago_DSL6

join:2003-08-04
South Elgin, IL

All I can say is good luck. I hope for your sake AT&T doesn't sue you. I read that site and read the TOS (unlike the masses that don't) and realized that if I don't earn any money from the lawsuit that will cover legal fees, that I am responsible for the law firms legal fees. I'd have no problem with that if I knew what the rate was and the expected amount of work. Go ahead, give them a blank check.

As for AT&T, all the consumers are doomed until we get a new government. Pretty simple. I guess I'll pay $200/month for my iPhones and $150 in their voice, standard TV and internet with overages on everything but tv.


sonicmerlin

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reply to Gbcue

Re: AT&T Unlimited Users

said by Gbcue:

You are now welcome to join T-Mobile's much faster robust nationwide 4G HSPA+ network with the same throttling and lower cost.

To those who would rather pay for overages instead of being throttled, I'm sure AT&T would gladly let you switch to a data overage plan.

Uh...ATT still charges overages doofus.


Gbcue
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said by sonicmerlin:

said by Gbcue:

You are now welcome to join T-Mobile's much faster robust nationwide 4G HSPA+ network with the same throttling and lower cost.

To those who would rather pay for overages instead of being throttled, I'm sure AT&T would gladly let you switch to a data overage plan.

Uh...ATT still charges overages doofus.

I didn't say it didn't.
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ptrowski
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reply to Gbcue
You mean AT&T's soon to be robust network. Man that must keep you up at night.



ptrowski
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In the Mac forum...

Talking about this yesterday and less T-Mobile trolling...
»[iPhone] AT&T Will Start Throttling Heavy Use Unlimited Data


Gbcue
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Re: AT&T Unlimited Users

AT&T should spend that $39-billion in infrastructure upgrades. Then they'd have a network that could handily beat Verizon, and truly nationwide, too.

Maybe you can explain this, but how would rural people benefit from a merger with T-Mobile? T-Mobile primarily serves URBAN areas because population density is higher (more ROI for towers and advertising). The commercial says 15M more rural people would access the network.
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iansltx

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So AT&T is lying again. Anything else new?



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reply to sonicmerlin

said by sonicmerlin:

said by Gbcue:

You are now welcome to join T-Mobile's much faster robust nationwide 4G HSPA+ network with the same throttling and lower cost.

To those who would rather pay for overages instead of being throttled, I'm sure AT&T would gladly let you switch to a data overage plan.

Uh...ATT still charges overages doofus.

Wait...so you pay data overages AND have the pleasure of being throttled?

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Re: In the Mac forum...

from wiki about 4g. the ITU-R organization specified the IMT-Advanced (International Mobile Telecommunications Advanced) requirements for 4G standards, setting peak speed requirements for 4G service at 100 Mbit/s for high mobility communication (such as from trains and cars) and 1 Gbit/s for low mobility communication (such as pedestrians and stationary users).

Pre-4G technologies such as mobile WiMAX and first-release Long term evolution (LTE) have been on the market since 2006


tiger72
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Re: AT&T Unlimited Users

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

sucks for them


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reply to Duramax08

Re: for the shits and giggles

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WHY IS QUEEN STILL ON?!


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reply to Duramax08
DUPLICATE



rawgerz
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reply to Gbcue

Re: AT&T Unlimited Users

said by Gbcue:

The commercial says 15M more rural people would access the network.

Likely some rural areas TMO has service and will become ATT after the merger. PR work is harder than real work at the end of the day, after all.
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RMHA

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Throttlening nonsense ?

I always wonder where the benefit for a telco is to throttle heavy users at the end of the month. If the reason is that those users overload the infrastructure then why don't we have total breakdowns at the beginning of each month? Do they have user uprisings on the 1st when the net comes to an [imagined] standstill? Does net traffic miraculously get more expensive say the last week of a month?

Ricanlegend

join:2011-05-18
Bronx, NY

I thought at@t already does that ...

It's called 3G lol AT&T is such a fool

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