Sprint Halts Data Throttling Following FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules

Is unlimited data offered by carriers truly unlimited? Or is it unlimted to a certain extent, after which you will be throttled for using too much? Unfortunately AT&T recently found out the hard way that advertising unlimited means that you truly need to be unlimited, and it looks like Sprint has narrowly avoided the guillotine themselves.

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, it turns out that last Friday, Sprint had reportedly put an end to data throttling following the new rules of net neutrality that the FCC had introduced. A Sprint spokesman was quoted as saying, “Sprint doesn’t expect users to notice any significant difference in their services now that we no longer engage in the process.”

That much is true for the majority of users on the network. Prior to this, Sprint had been throttling the data speeds of its most heaviest users during peak periods of traffic. Undoubtedly this made some very unhappy and even though many users probably weren’t affected by this, it’s probably not nice to be told it’s unlimited when it really isn’t.

Last year Verizon announced that they too were planning on throttling the speeds of its data-heaviest users but after being closely watched the FCC, the carrier decided to drop those plans. Like we said, most of you guys probably won’t notice any difference in your experience, but at the same time are you happy with this outcome?

Tyler Lee
Categories: Cellphones
Tags: FCC, Legal, Sprint