[joshAg]

why stick with them now that the 4 major cell phone companies have the iphone and 1 (Sprint, i think) even offers unlimited unthrottled data plans?

[janardanyri]

And that's the trick: AT&T implemented throttling just after all the dedicated iPhone users upgraded to an iPhone 4S and locked themselves in for another two years.

Disgusting, eh?

[Terretta]

You didn't have to lock in. If you paid full price for the iPhone 4s, then when you first plugged it to iTunes, you got a "congratulations, your phone has been unlocked" message, and the phone stopped being carrier locked. This worked since iPhone 4s release day, before the 'official' unlocked phone shipped.

[trotsky]

If you'd been on sprint lately you'd know it's because the whole 3g network performs like it's throttled.

[joshAg]

that seems like a fair enough complaint, but what about verizon or tmobile?

[trotsky]

vzw at least is quite fast, but I believe they both throttle heavy users.

[iamandrus]

I don't have a choice. It'd be too expensive to switch.

[tadfisher]

No 3G on T-Mobile.