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Re:AT&T to pay $60M over U.S. allegations it lied in 'unlimi... by alteria on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @03:45PM (#21456493)
T-Mobile solves this through de-prioritization, so your service is only degraded when there is congestion AND once you've crossed a certain threshold (53GB right now I think).
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Re:AT&T to pay $60M over U.S. allegations it lied in 'unlimi... by awad on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @04:53PM (#21457123)
That's my understanding of AT&T's current implementation of unlimited at the moment
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Re:AT&T to pay $60M over U.S. allegations it lied in 'unlimi... by pmoriarty on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @05:34PM (#21457497)
Is there any way to verify that that's what they're actually doing?
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Re:AT&T to pay $60M over U.S. allegations it lied in 'unlimi... by plorkyeran on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @01:18AM (#21460162)
It'd be hard to prove it, but in practice it gets noticeably slower at peak usage times after exceeding the cap and stays fast at off-peak times, which matches the expected result of deprioritization.
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