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A theoretical flash-mobbing of the 5% throttle on unlimited plans?

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A theoretical flash-mobbing of the 5% throttle on unlimited plans?

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Post by radishroar »

1. All subscribers of an unlimited plan ramp up network usage massively 2. This will shrink the upper percentile distribution since it's not likely that the top 5% of people will use much more data than they already do 3. The result is more unlimited bandwidth that would not be throttled since the 5% threshold goes up

Any bets that the current ultimatum will not be modified for "the benefit of the people" ?

A theoretical flash-mobbing of the 5% throttle on unlimited plans?
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Post by jerrya »

Yeah, I just don't see how that will do anything but prove AT&T's point and make the data users unsympathetic.

*See all those hackers brought down our network! We need our caps and we need our T-Mobile merger!

More appropriate would be showing up at Congress along with the CEOs from Netflix, Spotify, Rhapsody, Rdio, Hulu, Google, Wikipedia, and having all of those guys making the case for network neutrality and even more data and a demand Congress Block the TMobile merger. Get Dan Hesse to say he thinks unlimited data is a fantastic thing and he invites Sprint users to use as much data as they can.

Then go ask Steve Jobs what he thinks.

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