Josh Bernoff, an author and blogger, says that after getting throttled by AT&T for the first time, "It changed the way I use the mobile phone." When that happens, "they make it so slow it’s basically unusable," reader Bryan Klosiewicz noted on Twitter. It's 114 GB with HD video).īeing throttled isn't fun.
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Add in 40 hours of watching standard-definition video, and it jumps to 35 GB monthly. We got to a hypothetical 7.72 GB monthly for sending and receiving 1,000 monthly emails, listening to eight hours daily of streaming music, surfing the web and creating 335 social media posts. Talking Tech tried out the data survey on AT&T's website to see how much data we might use.
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When a California fire department spoke out this week about getting "throttled" by a wireless carrier, right or wrong the issue of throttling joined the public discussion.