AT&T began to high flow speed limit users

Michael, lang (Mike Trang) is California's orange county, a property manager. Since, he likes to keep his iPhone 4 as a GPS to use, smart cellphones is a good helper in his work. His little cousin will also take it from time to time watching YouTube video, or play games.

But in the past few weeks, they can't use mobile phones like that, because operators in his smart cellphone, AT&T set in a virtual wheel fixed frame. Therefore, his cell phone won't load the page, also can't show the map. YouTube video to mention-mike mobile phone data transmission speed down to dial-up level.

Mike complain to say: "now, my phone basically it's no good."

The main reason is: AT&T company think mike mobile data usage row in his area of the top 5%. According to a new policy, AT&T company has started to reduce their network data transmission speed, this is trying to manage their data on network using part of the action.

So AT&T company last month to mike's iPhone in the mobile phone data "throttling", slowing down about 99% of the data download. This means that a usually only need a second open web page now need to nearly two minutes.

AT&T has about 17 million unlimited data plans to use the user (close to the company intelligent mobile phone users half the world's total), they can be affected data to reduce the influence of the action. The company has been in 2010 to stop this kind of plan of the new users sign, and in announced last year, will begin to slow down most of the user data consumption data transmission speed.

Let such users like mike surprised is, how much use data to reach the level of demand-sometimes even than AT&T company gives its use of limited the amount of users plan even less.

In the 2.3 GB of data consumption (bill day two weeks), mike's iPhone data usage was throttling. His monthly payments of $30 unlimited data rental. Now, AT&T company start selling a limited or stratified data service plan-the same rental enjoy 3 GB data services.

Users report, if they call the company asked or complain that the data throttling, AT&T company's customer support representatives will suggest they switch to limited data plan.

New Jersey's gray godot who) mittal (GregoryTallman) point out: "they are lure you switch to layered plan." Mr Mittal iPhone4S has not been throttling, but he has received AT&T's message, warned him close to data use limit. Before that, he worked in a month used 1.5 GB of data.

San Diego's John oliver kahn (JohnCozen) is a network and mobile application designers, although his cell phone has not been throttling, but he was beset by AT&T's warning that "almost can't use the cellphone. He complained that AT&T company let him not know what to do, now he's going to change a business operator.

He said: "I don't think is 2-3 GB of data usage. Actually, I'm just too sometimes on the site through the pictures and words."

AT&T spokesman mark sieg's (MarkSiegel) says, last summer, the top 5% of the average monthly data users use 2 GB data traffic.

But he also said the company didn't actually limit the top 5% of all data users. He points out that last month, the figure was only 0.5%, about 200000 users affected.