This morning we noted that much was being made of the fact that Sprint CEO Dan Hesse told investors at a conference this week that the company is throttling the top 1% of "unlimited" users. That seemed odd, given that Sprint has made a big deal out of their unlimited offerings, and has been running ads claiming the company doesn't throttle anyone. Sprint has since come out with a full statement stating that the claims, which originated with a report by Dow Jones newswires, are false.

Sprint says the company does not throttle any postpaid phone data users for on-network or off-network usage. They also continue to insist they're still the only major wireless carrier that offers truly unlimited data plans with no throttling, metering or overages for smartphone users. Apparently the Dow Jones reporter hallucinated the fact Hesse said they throttle, as Hesse was simply noting that Sprint boots extremely heavy users that violate Sprint's terms and conditions:Booting the really ridiculously heavy users (after having conversations with them) is pretty much par for the course. Still, as we noted this morning, Sprint's dedication to unlimited likely won't last long as their LTE build budget gets tight.