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Virgin Mobile to Start Throttling March 23

Jan 18, 2012, 5:32 PM by Eric M. Zeman

Virgin Mobile USA today indicated that it is going to start throttling customers who exceed 2.5GB of data in a given monthly billing cycle starting March 23. Virgin won't charge overage fees, but users who go over the limit will see data speeds slowed down to 256Kbps or less for the remainder of the billing cycle. Virgin says that fewer than 3% of its customers will be affected by this new policy. The throttling plan was first announced in July 2011 with a target launch date of October 2011. Virgin later decided to delay its throttling plan until 2012. The company said, "this is the best way for Virgin Mobile to maintain the best network experience as data usage explodes."

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middlekid3058

Jan 18, 2012, 10:27 PM

VM CUSTOMER SERVICE IS THE WORST!

Not surprised to read this, probably Sprint is pushing them so they can make room for LTE

jeffdws

What do you expect when your phone bill can be as low as $35/mo for unl text and data?

If you wanted live, competent people to be on the other side of the phone, you'd have to pay at least double what you do now.

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muchdrama

middlekid3058 said:
Not surprised to read this, probably Sprint is pushing them so they can make room for LTE

Their service is the worst I've ever encountered.

WiWavelength

middlekid3058 said:
Not surprised to read this, probably Sprint is pushing them so they can make room for LTE

Nope, throttling Virgin Mobile subs is in no way related to Sprint deploying LTE, as EV-DO and LTE will o...
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