Can anyone explain unlimited LTE throttling?

[Kaze919]

I have a grandfathered plan like most of the AT&T subscribers because the plan seemed too good to lose. With the iPhone 5 the plan now involves LTE and will throttle data at 5GB opposed to 3G (faux 4G) at 3GB. I've only hit this limit once on a weekend I was streaming a lot of WatchESPN. How does it get implemented and what speeds should you expect? afterwords?

 

[Laura Knotek]

I have an LTE device and live in an area that has LTE coverage. However, I have not exceeded 5 GB in a billing cycle so far.

From what I've read over on the Android Central Forums, if one exceeds 5 GB, the data speeds are throttled to EDGE. So email will work, but the browser will be painfully slow, and streaming audio/video probably will not work. It would be pretty much like using an old BlackBerry Curve that did not have 3G.

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See this post.

He got throttled to .25-.5 Mbps down and .05-.25 Mbps up.

 

[Kaze919]

can anyone confirm the EDGE speeds. That would really be terrible, it would be nice if you got pushed down to 3g

 

[gvndeb60]

I can. It is less than 100kbps and almost unusable.

 

[Eileen89]

can anyone confirm the EDGE speeds. That would really be terrible, it would be nice if you got pushed down to 3g

Yeah, it would be nice, however, not going to happen with AT&T.


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