Unlimited data plans are awesome, but we’ve seen how some users have abused the system where they have gone above and beyond their data usage where it is no longer considered reasonable. This is why carriers have in the past tried to cut out unlimited data plans, or were forced to introduced throttling.
Unfortunately for AT&T customers, you guys can expect similar throttling being applied to your services. The carrier has recently sent out emails to customers on grandfathered unlimited tablet data plans and have informed them that the unlimited status is being eliminated on the 24th of May, 2017.
What this means is that after the 24th of May, if you were to exceed more than 22GB of data during a single bill period, you could experienced slowed down internet speeds during times of network congestion. This is a huge change considering that before this, users did not have a cap in place, so for those who never really paid attention to how much data they are consuming, this is something they’ll need to start monitoring on their own.
No doubt this is a bummer for tablet users out there, but like we said carriers are starting to crack down on unlimited data plans and also users who are taking advantage of it, so this move shouldn’t really come as a surprise.
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