AT&T Customers Campaign Against Data Policies

does at&t have this "right plan promise" like Sprint, where you can always change your plan at anytime without extending your service agreement?

www.att.com/datainfo 😳

Here are FACTS. Up for discussion, but not debate.

2/29/2012
Verizon LTE- in 196 Markets
AT&T LTE- in 28 Markets

Verizon Data Coverage-(Map clearly shows almost entire network is 3G or 4G, no need to zoom in but you can if you want to, lol)
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/CoverageLocatorCo » ... »

AT&T Data Coverage-(Being the ETHICAL company they are, you have to click "data" then actually ZOOM in to see where exactly they have 4G, 3G and EDGE. You will clearly see a majority of their network is in fact EDGE or the slowest speed by far)
http://www.wireless.att.com/coverageviewer/ » »

An AT&T Fanboy told me that AT&T has better smartphones. Don't know if he meant better selection or better actual phones but in either case;
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AT&T is not throttling because of amount of usage, they are throttling speeds with excessive usage in short period of time. Anyone using 2 GB in a month cycle will be fine, however, if you are using up 2GB in 3-4 days then that will put you in the 5% highest usage based on projected usage. That is how it is..you can't abuse the bandwith...I have unlimited and I have a hard time getting to 1 gb..so I have no idea what these people are doing on there phones to be so excessive with usage....I can see AT&T point of view on this..they have to maintain the bandwith..anyone on unlimited can go to tiered pricing and have no issues...so do that..3GB is plenty of data...

Glad people are taking it to them! I would be pissed at any carrier that engages in all these data shenanigans with their customers. I love how somehow their bandwidth magically increases to unlimited when app makers would pay them some money or how the cap is set to 2GB just under that lofty 3GB plan for the same dollar amount or how anyone who did use a certain amount of data previously was obviously tethering and had their unlimited data automatically removed from their accounts and a tiered plan added. I used 13GB of VZW LTE data this month and my wife used 9GB with no problem, cap or throttle of any kind and at 15 to 20MB LTE speed. Vote with your wallets people (that actually want to use your advanced smartphone) and go to Verizon, S...
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Why is it that the pro-AT&T gang always lead with insults? You don't rationally talk to anyone, your first post will be automatically starting a fight. But, I post one thing, calling a dude a prick, cause he was, and I'm the one that gets removed?

Is not unlimited mean all you can use? If you limit how fast you can use data you are limiting the amount of data a customer can use? I understand speeds are not gaurenteed but the plan is unlimited so by slowing speeds down you are placing a limit on the data you can use. So unlimited is limited. At the very least the speeds should only be limited by what in necessary to relieve congestion and this should apply to all users on the congested network.

What are they going to throttle next,unlimited calling? Do they have something installed in their network to drop your calls continuously once you reach 1500 "daytime minutes"?

...I'd be joining the knock AT&T bandwagon on this, and it's not that I'm not willing to: their policies toward their customers are wrong. Unlimited means without limitation. Limitation on speed, limitation on volume, or limitation on hours of use are all limitations. This has been debated and argued a million times before, and the pro-AT&T-do-whatever-they-can-get-away-with crowd is never going to cede the obvious point. That said, I'm not signing a petition for an Obama front group that wants my mailing address! You'd have to be stupid to sign that petition as it is.

If they're throttling the top 5% of unlimited users...

...and people are being throttled for using around 2 GB of data...

...then if you're around that, why not just change your plan to a tiered one that you'd stay under anyways and avoid getting throttled?

It just seems to me that people overstate their need for data in most cases. And I'm not saying throttling like this is right, I'm just looking at it a little differently than most of the hip 'let's hate on AT&T' people are.