AT&T Begins Data Throttling

style="text-align: left;">href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/x7Y61.jpg">class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23876" title="x7Y61" src="http://www.everythingicafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/x7Y61.jpg" alt="" width="384" height="576" />October 1st. That’s the day AT&T was meant to href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/att-confirms-data-throttling/2011/07/29/">start throttling heavy data users, and just one day before we’re seeing reports of the first messages being sent out to heavy data users. This message href="http://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/kv8it/and_so_begins_the_throttling/">comes via Reddit, where one user skelatwork claims he was sent the message after passing 11GB of usage during his billing cycle — which may sound like a lot, but he wasn’t using it for anything too severe:

I listen to podcasts and Pandora while I drive to work. When I get to work, I occasionally Tether to bypass Fortiguard (web filtering). I wasn’t going to be ‘naughty’ until I discovered they had ESPN Fantasy Football blocked… Bastards.

Have any of our readers being sent this message? How much has it slowed you down to be put on AT&T’s blacklist? Let us know in the comments.

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