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STOP company's from THROTTLING. throttling: It's pretty easy to use up all of your wireless data service for a given mo

Created by V.T. on December 12, 2013

When you do that, the phone company says that it'll knock your speed down into 2G territory--and it's not kidding. download speed dropped from almost 8 megabits per second to 0.07 mbps. At that slow speed, a Web page that had taken just a few seconds to load before I hit the limit instead took 17 seconds to load. A 1-minute YouTube video that had taken about 1minute, 3 seconds to load and run all the way through now took 4 minutes, 35 seconds. Connecting with the Android Market and downloading an app from it took so long that I gave it up as not worth doing. this is not to mention about GPS and apps that can save lives.

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