UPDATED With Sprints response Sprint throttling "top 1% of ROAMERS" NOT normal users!

mattykinsx · Jan 5, 2012

UPDATED With Sprints response Sprint throttling "top 1% of ROAMERS" NOT normal users!

It's important to note that there's absolutely nothing I can do about the fact that it was reported, by multiple new sources, incorrectly.

I think that really speaks for the news sources that we all tend to go to on these forums.
Extremely biased, rarely fact checking.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...-falsely-advertising-its-unlimited-data-plan/

Thanks jyan_osu

jyan_osu said:
Update: It seems the Dow Jones report left a key word out: roaming. Dan Hesse squeezed the word in there, suggesting that Sprint will only consider it abuse when you go data-crazy on a network that isn’t actually theirs (Hesse cites “a guy in his house in rural Montana” as an example)

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/05/even-sprints-truly-unlimited-plan-isnt-truly-unlimited/

mkuehn10 said:
http://community.sprint.com/baw/com...th-no-throttling?ECID=SM:TW:20120106UnlimData

Reports that Sprint throttles the top one percent of data users are false. Here are the facts:
Sprint does not throttle any postpaid phone data users for on-network or off-network usage. Sprint is the only national carrier offering smartphone users truly unlimited data with no throttling, metering or overages while on the Sprint network.
Sprint does have terms and conditions which prohibit certain types of data use that may impair other customers' usage or harm or interfere with the network. At yesterday’s investor conference, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse was referring to Sprint’s right to terminate service of data abusers who violate Sprint’s terms and conditions. Customers who abuse our network by violating the terms and conditions will be contacted by Sprint in an effort to have the customer change their usage to comply with their subscriber agreement. Customers who do not change their usage and remain in violation of the terms and conditions may be subject to actions reserved by Sprint, including but not limited to termination. Consistent with our advertising, engaging in such uses will not result in throttling for customers on unlimited data-included plans for phones.

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Whosdaman · Jan 5, 2012

And you are going where? Sit back down....everyone else is way worse. Verizon has a lead right now in coverage but that'll be changing soon

sling · Jan 5, 2012

It keeps getting better

tenaciousj · Jan 5, 2012

Sprint really needs to step up their network if they're going to be doing what Verizon and ATT do. They can pull it off because their network is actually useful. If Sprint don't do something huge with their service by the summer time I'm going to bail.

sling · Jan 5, 2012

Korey_Nicholson said:
And you are going where? Sit back down....everyone else is way worse. Verizon has a lead right now in coverage but that'll be changing soon

Did you click on link?
The point is sprints advertising no throttle but doing so , I think that's called false advertising lol

digweed4me · Jan 5, 2012

I already knew it I use about 10 gig a month and I am one of those 1%.

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donsh00tmesanta · Jan 5, 2012

They slow enough

sent from an Oxygen 2.3.2 powered Nexus S 4G

Whosdaman · Jan 5, 2012

sling said:
Did you click on link?
The point is sprints advertising no throttle but doing so , I think that's called false advertising lol

Yes, but is there actually proof? I mean, what is throttling on Sprint? It is already slow enough as is....can you really make it slower?

Drumrocker · Jan 5, 2012

Wow..If they are already throttling and data speeds are STILL this terrible they have no chance of staying alive for much longer

Overstew · Jan 5, 2012

sling said:
Did you click on link?
The point is sprints advertising no throttle but doing so , I think that's called false advertising lol

Verizon and AT&T have been advertising unlimited forever, but they throttle after 2GB. (now they switched to tiered plans, but you get the point.)

sling · Jan 6, 2012

Korey_Nicholson said:
Yes, but is there actually proof? I mean, what is throttling on Sprint? It is already slow enough as is....can you really make it slower?

Come on man click on link and read up , the proof came from Dan Hesses mouth lol
He admitted that 1% of customer base is throttled.

jyan_osu · Jan 6, 2012

Update: It seems the Dow Jones report left a key word out: roaming. Dan Hesse squeezed the word in there, suggesting that Sprint will only consider it abuse when you go data-crazy on a network that isn’t actually theirs (Hesse cites “a guy in his house in rural Montana” as an example)

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/05/even-sprints-truly-unlimited-plan-isnt-truly-unlimited/

Whosdaman · Jan 6, 2012

Ha! I knew it...they throttle Top 1% of Roaming Data users. Now stfu and sit down. Stupid media websites need to double check their **** first. This could have really hurt Sprint.

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It's known that Sprint has an 300 mb allowance of roaming data before you are flagged. Everyone knows that...

demo27vol1 · Jan 6, 2012

I encourage them of throttling the top 1%. They are probably using more than 15 gigs of data anyways. I can barely manage to use 4gigs a month and that's because I have decent data speeds and I WiFi tether for some friends at school.

sling · Jan 6, 2012

Overstew said:
Verizon and AT&T have been advertising unlimited forever, but they throttle after 2GB. (now they switched to tiered plans, but you get the point.)

ATT & V never denied throttle after a point...same with T-mobile
Sprint on the other hand has commercials blasting on the tube claiming NO throttle which is a bold face lie

Whosdaman · Jan 6, 2012

sling said:
ATT & V never denied throttle after a point...same with T-mobile
Sprint on the other hand has commercials blasting on the tube claiming NO throttle which is a bold face lie

No it's not please go read a book

cordell12 · Jan 6, 2012

I recall the Evo 4G forums and all the bickering over sprint and throttling.

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sling · Jan 6, 2012

jyan_osu said:
Update: It seems the Dow Jones report left a key word out: roaming. Dan Hesse squeezed the word in there, suggesting that Sprint will only consider it abuse when you go data-crazy on a network that isn’t actually theirs (Hesse cites “a guy in his house in rural Montana” as an example)

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/05/even-sprints-truly-unlimited-plan-isnt-truly-unlimited/

Thanks

10char

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Korey_Nicholson said:
No it's not please go read a book

No its not what?

Oh and change your Jr high school pic avatar

Beejis · Jan 6, 2012

Overstew said:
Verizon and AT&T have been advertising unlimited forever, but they throttle after 2GB. (now they switched to tiered plans, but you get the point.)

This may just be the beginning of the end. First throttling, then tiered data.

It burns when I tapatalk...

Whosdaman · Jan 6, 2012

sling said:
Thanks

10char

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No its not what?

It's not a bold face lie.

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