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It is obviously a money grab on AT&T's part. They just want to force the umbrellaed heavy unlimited plan users to switch to the more profitable tiered plans. If it was truly about the tsunami of data demand and providing a equal experience for all their subscribers, they should deploy some sort of QoS policy for everyone. As it is right now, they don't throttle people who are on tiered plans. They happily let the tiered plan users go over their limit without throttling and pocket the extra revenue.
We signed a contract with them for unlimited and we should be offered unlimited without worrying about being throttled at a certain threshold. A judge already ruled as much: http://news.yahoo.com/judge-awards-iphone-user-850-throttlin.... If they hold us to the contracts we signed by penalizing us with early termination fees, they too should be penalized for breach of contract on their end.