T-Mobile will not intentionally throttle any network customer who uses less than 50GB of data in a month. Even at that point, it's not a hard limit.
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Verizon admits to “optimizing” amid accusations of Netflix throttling
It's not just Netflix: YouTube and Verizon's own go90 service is being affected. Is there a net neutrality issue here? It comes down to technicalities.
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Is this the new front in the unlimited data war? T-Mobile One raises de-prioritization cap
AT&T, Sprint and Verizon all cap untangled unlimited data use at around 22GB. T-Mobile used to at 28GB, but not anymore. The cap has been raised.
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Cricket throttling its unlimited data users harder starting April 2
The AT&T prepaid carrier already caps rates at 8Mbps. Now, unlimited data users may see bigger speed cuts like their postpaid counterparts.
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The return of the Verizon Unlimited plan comes after “you asked”
It won't throttle streaming, but it will add on unlimited hotspot tethering and include free data to use in Canada and Mexico. It's a slightly pricier get.
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AT&T Stream Saver debuts next year as an opt-out 480p video limiter
Unlike what T-Mobile initially offered with the Binge On program, AT&T’s new Stream Saver scheme does not offer you free video to watch without having using up your data for the month. No zero-rate schemes, no partners and no serious worries about net neutrality here. But it does mean that if you’re on one of those unicorn unlimited plans or just prefer streaming a little more quality material on wireless, you have a switch to pull.
Stream Saver will be activated on all of AT&T’s existing planholders, including those on GoPhone, starting early next year. It simply throttles most video (depending on host-side stream packaging) to about 480p so that customers can spend less data on a video and more data on watching several of them.
If you are a subscriber, you’ll be texted when the program comes online and you can choose to shut it off on your myAT&T/Premier pages or turn it back on again at your leisure.
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T-Mobile paying out $48 million in settlement with FCC over “unlimited” throttling
It’s the hidden catches that make “unlimited” not what it seems to be. In the case of T-Mobile, the Un-carrier, it turns out that it did not tell customers on its unlimited data plan back in 2015 that their speeds would be throttled if they used too much data in a month. So, the Federal Communications Commission is making the ...
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Unlimited data for tablets just $20 a month on Sprint
Sprint has extended its Unlimited Freedom over to the tablet side of its operations, though the carrier doesn’t use the “Unlimited Freedom” branding. Instead, we just get unceremonious unlimited data for tablets for just $20 per line, per month.We see the same “optimization” conditions that are applied to the phone side right here: 480p streaming video, 500kbps music streams and 2Mbps gaming streams. You have
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Sprint launches Unlimited Freedom for Business
Every carrier has a business plan. At least, every carrier should have a business plan, otherwise, they’re outta business! But there’s more to Sprint’s new Unlimited Freedom for Business plan than just our crude, unfortunate punchline.The new plan is an extension of its consumer-side plans of the same name. Sprint is offering the same unlimited LTE data with ...
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Verizon’s Safety Mode now free for all as it introduces promotional data tier
As rumors have it, Verizon has decided to make free a feature that cost an extra $5 per month for its more data-conservative subscribers.“Safety Mode,” which throttles account holders’ data speeds to 128kbps if they reach their LTE data cap, was originally introduced as free to those on the new Verizon Plan at the 16GB (XL) and 24GB (XXL) tiers. Other plan holders had to pay the extra fee for the ...
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Verizon’s Safety Mode won’t be a rip-off anymore for light data users
As part of the “fireworks” that Verizon promised last month, customers were promised new data options, new (higher) rates and a throttling cap for those who took the privilege of getting more than 16GB of data.The so-called “Safety Mode” dropped data speeds to 128kbps once the month’s LTE bucket was kicked over. It was free to those on the XL (16GB) and XXL (24GB) plan, but an additional $5 per month for those not on the plans. Given that the 8GB L plan cost a full $20 a ...
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Verizon’s Safety Mode won’t be a rip-off anymore for light data users
As part of the “fireworks” that Verizon promised last month, customers were promised new data options, new (higher) rates and a throttling cap for those who took the privilege of getting more than 16GB of data.The so-called “Safety Mode” dropped data speeds to 128kbps once the month’s LTE bucket was kicked over. It was free to those on the XL (16GB) and XXL (24GB) plan, but an additional $5 per month for those not on the plans. Given that the 8GB L plan cost a full $20 a ...
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FTC suit against AT&T throttling practices tossed out by appeals court
The Federal Trade Commission has lost a fight over mobile data throttling against AT&T.This two-year-old case stemmed over the FTC’s accusation that the carrier needed to inform the commission before slowing down the data speeds of customers using excessive amounts of it on a grandfathered unlimited plan. The agency said that such deceptive practices are prohibited under the Federal Trade Commission Act.The Ninth Circuit court of appeals, however, ordered a lower court to dismiss the lawsuit. ...
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T-Mobile One earns net neutrality doubts from EFF
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which laid accusations against T-Mobile’s Binge On zero-rate program not being net neutral, is calling out said T-Mobile again for more bits of anti-net neutrality. This time, its targeting T-Mobile One, the carrier’s new one-for-all unlimited data ...
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Sprint “Unlimited Freedom Plan” tries out two lines for $100
T-Mobile raised its monthly plan rates last year as it introduced its Binge On zero-rate program. While it offered more data per tier and more hotspot data at that, the unlimited data package ended up starting at $95 from its previous $80.Currently, two lines of unlimited data come to $140 per month. Sprint’s offering a $120 rate for the same thing. But it could dive even deeper if that carrier’s trial offers of the ...
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