AT&T secretly throttling In-Call data on all smartphones:
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AT&T SECRETLY THROTTLING THEIR SMARTPHONE CUSTOMERS (VIDEO)
AT&T has made it no secret they are short on spectrum. In response to their spectrum shortage AT&T has made a number of changes. They’ve changed their data plan offerings and have even instituted the throttling of data speeds on unlimited customers once they hit a certain point of data usage. However, there is one change AT&T made that they didn’t tell you about. AT&T is now throttling all smartphone customer’s data speeds during phone calls. It doesn’t matter what rate plan you are on, when you are on a phone call, your data speeds will be throttled by the network. When on a call AT&T slows your data down to approximately 800k-1meg on the download, and a virtually unusable 20-24k on the upload.
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Sent from my iPhone 4S using Tapatalk.Last edited by Irish Rose; 03-02-2012 at 08:23 AM.
03-02-2012 08:15 AMLike 0 - Based upon those speeds, it doesn't look like you are suffering. Is it really a big deal that you can't open a webpage a handful of seconds faster? Are you really concerned that you can't download something less than a handful of seconds faster while you are on the call? If you don't like it, leave. Don't want to pay the ETF? Too bad. That's your problem.
There are people in some areas that don't even get those speeds while not on a call.03-02-2012 09:28 AMLike 0 - Based upon those speeds, it doesn't look like you are suffering. Is it really a big deal that you can't open a webpage a handful of seconds faster? Are you really concerned that you can't download something less than a handful of seconds faster while you are on the call? If you don't like it, leave. Don't want to pay the ETF? Too bad. That's your problem.
There are people in some areas that don't even get those speeds while not on a call.
Sent from my iPhone 4S using Tapatalk.03-02-2012 09:44 AMLike 0 - Look I don't know what bug you got up your *** this morning, but I DON'T recall my post stating that I was suffering as a result of this. I posted this to show that the story was correct. I'm sick and tired of posting a story related to AT&T and having butt kissers like yourself come in here saying "don't like it leave". Guess what? I am NOT under a contract so not worried about ETF.... In the future if you don't like a thread that I posted you can just leave....musicfor18 and Eileen89 like this.03-02-2012 10:15 AMLike 2
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- Verizon throttles unlimited users. T-mobile does too, depending on their plan. Sprint is already "throttled" because their network is garbage, so it's slow anyways. Those are the facts. Plain and simple. AT&T is now doing it. Granted their limit is lower, but at least now it's a clear limit instead of guessing what the top 5% is.03-02-2012 12:29 PMLike 0
- Verizon throttles unlimited users. T-mobile does too, depending on their plan. Sprint is already "throttled" because their network is garbage, so it's slow anyways. Those are the facts. Plain and simple. AT&T is now doing it. Granted their limit is lower, but at least now it's a clear limit instead of guessing what the top 5% is.
Sent Into Orbit from my iPhone 4S using Tapatalk03-02-2012 01:37 PMLike 0 -
- Verizon's policy is based upon your tower. If that tower is congested, they'll throttle you for that area. Chances are you were throttled, but since maybe you didn't use that tower at that one time, you never noticed.03-02-2012 02:24 PMLike 0
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Sent Into Orbit from my iPhone 4S using Tapatalk03-02-2012 04:19 PMLike 0 - 03-06-2012 08:57 PMLike 0
- Yeah it is ridiculously slow, especially the upload. The upload during a call becomes so slow it's virtually nonexistent. Also, the pings become so high that even though you have a 1 meg download speed (not that 1meg is fast), it crawls painfully slow. What makes it worse is that it has nothing to do with your usage or your plan, they do it to everyone. AT&T really does need to be held accountable for it.07-14-2012 01:51 AMLike 0
- I thought this was just how the network worked. I thought 3G was a multi-channel signal, and when you're connected to a voice call, you only have one channel for data. I believe I read something about it dropping to essentially an EDGE connection, but I don't know where/when I read that.07-14-2012 07:01 PMLike 0
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Sent from my iPad LTE using Tapatalk HD.08-02-2012 08:30 AMLike 0 - Yeah I'm just happy I can send emails and browse while on a call.
Coming from sprint this is a much loved Feature.
Sent from my Bold using Tapatalk08-17-2012 08:21 PMLike 0
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