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Verizon Starts Throttling Top Data Gobblers

Verizon Starts Throttling Top Data Gobblers

After announcing back in February that it would reserve the right to throttle top smartphone data users, Verizon has put the policy into effect. The top 5 percent of data users on unlimited 3G data plans who are in what Verizon calls “congested cell sites” will now face slowdowns that last longer than a month. [More]