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In what can be perceived as a damage control move, AT&T has increased its unlimited data limit from merely 5GB to a reasonable 22GB per month. The change comes after the FCC proposed a $100 million fine against the mobile carrier for misleading its customers with the promise of “unlimited” data. Although the carrier no longer offers unlimited data plans, subscribers who had such a plan could continue to renew them.
The subscribers of the unlimited plan used to face considerably slow speeds once they hit the limit, and to make the matters worse, there was no way they could get their limits increased before the next billing cycle. However, now they can rejoice as the throttling limit has been upped, and they will begin receiving notifications of approaching the limit once they use up 16.5GB of data.
The best thing about AT&T’s new policy is that the data cap would only apply if the subscribers are in congested areas, but as soon as they connect to a tower with less network congestion, they should start getting full speed internet.
AT&T’s new policy is direct result of new net neutrality laws which prohibit data throttling, but allow reasonable network management.The FCC announced today a proposed $100 million fine of AT&T over allegations the carrier was improperly throttling data speeds for unlimited plan customers and in particular that the company failed to adequately disclose the throttling consumers may face.
Source: AT&T
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