“In October, AT&T announced that they would start throttling data usage amongst mobile Unlimited Data Plan users,” Arnold Kim reports for MacRumors. “While AT&T no longer offers an Unlimited Data plan to new customers, many of the original iPhone purchasers are still grandfathered into that plan. Those iPhone users have been able to retain these Unlimited plans, even though AT&T has since moved to a tiered data plan structure.”
“When AT&T announced their plan to start throttling users, the company said that they would only be throttling the top 5% of users,” Kim reports. “Early reports of affected users had pointed to 10GB-12GB per month users as the initially affected.
Kim reports, “It seems that ceiling has decreased significantly over the past few months, at least for some regions. John Cozen reports that he received his top 5% data usage warning after reaching only 2.1GB of data for January.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]