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AT&T Says It Won't Throttle Unlimited Customers Until 3GB of Data Usage

Posted March 1, 2012 at 5:18pm by iClarified · 13533 views
AT&T has announced that it will not throttle customers on unlimited plans until they pass 3GB in data usage, according to a statement on their site.

Do you have an unlimited data plan? If so, we have information to help you manage your account if you use more than 3GB, which means you are in the top 5% of data users in our network. If you have a 4G LTE Smartphone with monthly data usage over 5GB, you'll also be interested in this information. You can check your usage for this month by dialing *data# on your mobile phone.

The company has received a lot of negative publicity over the throttling of unlimited customers who surpassed 2GB of data. One AT&T customer was awarded $850 in the matter after taking AT&T to court.

While 3GB of data is of course better than 2GB, throttling unlimited customers down to nearly unusable speeds hardly qualifies as unlimited.

Read More [via Verge]