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FTC Suing AT&T for Unfair Data Throttling

Users who complain about AT&T iPhone unlimited data throttle or other device data throttling from this carrier are not alone as this problem was noticed by the Federal Trade Commission. The result is predicted: the FTC filed AT&T data throttling lawsuit accusing the well-known American mobile company in “unfair data throttling” towards its customers.

It is true that all U.S. carriers are fighting for subscribers and each year this war is getting tougher and tougher. The companies come up with new promotions and deals trying to attract new consumers and keep their current subscribers interested in staying with the particular network.

AT&T data throttling is nothing new. All carriers promise to throttle unlimited data plan users for overusing data in busy hours. Still some companies finally realize that such a plan might not serve them well.

According to the FTC [the Comission posted their official announcement in Twitter and through other sources], the carrier promised users unlimited data and instead slowed speeds offering unfair data throttling.

As the FTC notes, the carrier doesn’t throttle data speeds for subscribers who are not using the unlimited data plans. As AT&T says in return, that the claims made by the FTC are “baseless” and the carrier is “transparent” with its contracts and U.S. law.

Have you suffered from AT&T iPhone unlimited data throttle issue or not? What do you think about the FTC’s claims and this lawsuit?

It Was Announced About The AT&T Insider Data Breach

AT&T confirmed on Monday this month that had suffered a AT&T insider data breach. AT&T issued a warning to consumers about an insider that illegally accessed the personal information of an unspecified amount of users. In a letter to the Vermont attorney general, officials for the carrier said a former staffer accessed customer account information, including not only driver’s license and Social Security numbers.

The U.S. carrier apologized for the incident and claimed that the employee who did this no longer works for AT&T for violated the company’s privacy and accessing the account information of customers. The company reported that the violator looked through without proper authorization Customer Proprietary Network Information (or CPNI).

CPNI includes information of phone calls such as destination, duration and time. There is no number many customers whose accounts were affected by the breach. The carrier has also alerted those whose information may have been compromised. At least AT&T is being honest about AT&T insider data breach October and offers them a free one-year subscription to a credit monitoring service. The AT&T company recommends that customers change their usernames and passwords as a precautionary measure.

And this AT&T violator data breach October is the second time this year the company admitted to suffering a security breach. The first occasion was in June.

iPhone U.S. Carriers Doubling Their Data to Attract Customers

The new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus along with all the current promotions from the major U.S. carriers make it difficult to choose your data plan in October. AT&T iPhone double data plans are followed by similar deals at Verizon and Sprint.

The new offers are good for both new subscribers and existing carriers’ users. It looks like the competition is getting tough and the biggest telecoms in the U.S. have to really fight for their customers now.

Verizon double data deal is available to users who will sign up for the plan in October 2014. Sprint double data promotions also make you subscribe before October ends. Thus it’s only up to the customer which mobile company to choose to get double data for the previous price.

Only T-Mobile is not participating in this competition.

AT&T offers 30GB of data for $160 a month. This is the most expensive deal on the market. Both Verizon and Sprint offer the $130 double data plans but with Verizon you get 30GB of data and with Sprint you get twice more or 60GB of data per month.

Still you are advised to see the network rating before you select your plan.

Firstly, there might be additional costs per line and upgrade etc.

Secondly, carriers are fighting for new subscribers after they heard that Apple sold over 10 million iPhones over the first weekend of the seventh-gen models launch.

Keep in mind that the deals won’t last forever so see what carrier can offer you in the future when you are planning to subscribe to one of the existing plans.