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Verizon Makes It Official: Prepaid Now has “Always-On Data” Throttling at No Extra Charge

Kellen July 19, 2016 24

Last week, sources of ours revealed Verizon's plan to add a new feature to their prepaid plans called "Always-On Data." The idea is the same as it is on The Verizon Plan's new Safety Mode, where customers can go over their allotted data sum at throttled...

Verizon Prepaid Will Get Throttled Unlimited Data Next Week, No Sneaky Safety Mode Required

Kellen July 13, 2016 73

Last week, Verizon introduced a bunch of "fireworks" tweaks to their The Verizon Plan that included a feature called Safety Mode. To say that Safety Mode was anything less than an unnecessary scheme to nickel and dime you over overages or tempt you into...

Verizon May Introduce Carryover Data, Free Roaming, and Throttled Unlimited Data This Week (Updated)

Kellen June 29, 2016 188

A little over a year and a half ago, Verizon CFO Fran "ShamWow" Shammo told the world that his company was a "leader" not a "follower" and that they wouldn't be jumping on the rollover data bandwagon. If the image below, along with a confirmation from a source...

Netflix Now Offers Cellular Data Controls for Quality

Kellen May 5, 2016 35

After admitting that it had been purposely throttling the hell out of video streams to AT&T and Verizon customers without their knowledge as a way to save them from themselves and the overpriced, data lame plans they had been forced into in recent years,...

Netflix has Been Throttling Verizon and AT&T Streams to 360p

Kellen March 25, 2016 132

Last week, as a part of YouTube and T-Mobile's joint announcement that YouTube was joining Binge On, T-Mobile CEO John Legere released a video to help sell the news. During that clip, he made reference to Netflix streaming on T-Mobile that was dropped to DVD-...

T-Mobile Adds 14 Services to Binge On, Responds to “Throttling” Concerns

Kellen January 7, 2016 155

This morning, T-Mobile and its CEO, John Legere, had a whole bunch things to say about their Binge On video service. Not only did they announce a handful of new partners for Binge On, but Legere also addressed all of the recent "throttling" talk surrounding...

AT&T Ups Throttling Limit on Unlimited Data Users to 22GB

Kellen September 16, 2015 45

AT&T made a change to its unlimited data throttling policy this morning that ups the limit its legacy unlimited data users can hit before they will enforce slower data speeds. Previously, the limit was around the 5GB mark, but now unlimited data users are...

Sprint Already Dropped That Ridiculous Video Streaming Throttling “Limitation” From Its New All-In Plan

Kellen June 30, 2015 33

This morning, we told you about Sprint's new All-In plan that included the most ridiculous footnote in recent memory, a footnote that sneakily revealed to customers who bought into this plan that Sprint would throttle all of their video streaming to 600kbps....