Study Shoots Holes in AT&T's Reasons for Throttling

But of course...LOL. I must say that it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that we're discovering that what AT&T is telling us is total BS.

 

While I do think this study was needed to point out AT&T's deception to their customers, I don't think anything will become of it . Until someone steps in and stops them they are going to keep right on going with their shady throttling practices.

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The flaw in the study is that it was a nationwide study. AT&T admitted that its throttling was done by local markets which had congestion. Some of the local markets without congestion might have allowed ten gigabytes with no throttling but the markets with heavy congestion might have required throttling at one gigabyte. It would be unfair to throttle users in markets without congestion. Unfortunately, AT&T's response was to apply the same yardstick to everyone on a nationwide basis.