AT&T updates data throttling policy on legacy unlimited plans
Late last year, despite claims that throttling on legacy 4G plans was not automatic, users discovered that AT&T was in fact throttling data speeds whether the network was congested or not. The carrier promised to change the policy sometime during 2015 and it looks like the time may have come based on a change to some information on their web site.
According to AT&T, once a user with a legacy 4G plan exceeds 5 GB of data usage, their speed may be reduced at times or in areas where they are “experiencing network congestion.” This change mirrors the way AT&T handles unlimited data use on 3G/4G plans, although those plans see the limit kick in at only 3 GB of usage.
Despite this slight loosening of restrictions on unlimited data usage, AT&T likely hopes this will still be enough to encourage customers to switch over to new plans that have data caps.
source: AT&T
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