AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data
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AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data
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Re: AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data
#2Throttling speeds after a certain amount of data is not equal to unlimited... serves them right for using the "Unlimited" wrongly :)
Re: AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data
#3The fine, which AT&T says it will fight, is the largest ever levied by the agency.
Does anyone know how likely this fine is to stick? It sounds like a significant fine to me, but I wonder if these kind of fines are often appealed down.
Re: AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data
#4We should stop lawyers from re-defining words like unlimited. We should make sure that if somebody says unlimited in advertisment or product description it really means unlimited. I know, I am an idealist. :)
Re: AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data
#5Throttling speeds after a certain amount of data is not equal to unlimited... serves them right for using the "Unlimited" wrongly :)
Well no amount is unlimited. Throttled or not, you will have a max throughput that will limit how much data you can download in a month. :)
Re: AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data
#6We should stop lawyers from re-defining words like unlimited. We should make sure that if somebody says unlimited in advertisment or product description it really means unlimited. I know, I am an idealist. :)
So what does unlimited mean then in your definition? Even before they throttle, you will be limited by the throughput of the cell tower.
Re: AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data
#7Throttling speeds after a certain amount of data is not equal to unlimited... serves them right for using the "Unlimited" wrongly :)
Well no amount is unlimited. Throttled or not, you will have a max throughput that will limit how much data you can download in a month. :)
That is true, but in a sense an Unlimited plan should allow you to download&upload 24/7 at what ever the max speed is for the full duration of the plan, without throttling.
Edited: gramma.
Re: AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data
#8We should stop lawyers from re-defining words like unlimited. We should make sure that if somebody says unlimited in advertisment or product description it really means unlimited. I know, I am an idealist. :)
So what does unlimited mean then in your definition? Even before they throttle, you will be limited by the throughput of the cell tower.
This is not about the speed, more like about the volume of data. They limit you after you reached a limit that should have never reach because it was advertised limitless.
Re: AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data
#9We should stop lawyers from re-defining words like unlimited. We should make sure that if somebody says unlimited in advertisment or product description it really means unlimited. I know, I am an idealist. :)
So what does unlimited mean then in your definition? Even before they throttle, you will be limited by the throughput of the cell tower.
Interesting question.
"Unlimited: Wherein the amount of bandwidth, measured by megabits/s up/down, will not be artificially affected. While system outages or other technical limitations can at times affect throughput, at no point will AT&T or its subsidiaries place constraints upon throughput based upon the amount of data transferred over the course of one or more billing periods."
Re: AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data
#10We should stop lawyers from re-defining words like unlimited. We should make sure that if somebody says unlimited in advertisment or product description it really means unlimited. I know, I am an idealist. :)
So what does unlimited mean then in your definition? Even before they throttle, you will be limited by the throughput of the cell tower.
For the purposes of this action, it means you can use it as much as you want. AT&T was selling it as unlimited 3G/4G, they were not told the conditions that would result in throttling, and they were not told that they would effectively have an unusable data plan after throttling. My memory may be fuzzy, but this story[1] provides a few more details.
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/technology/FTC-says-ATT-de...