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By Kevin Fitchard – What does a mobile network hosting 41.2 million smartphones look like? A network where growth in data traffic far exceeds data revenue growth.
AT&T’s chickens have come home to roost. Customers are finally starting to consume the big buckets of data AT&T is selling them, taking their fair share of network capacity while not paying more for the privilege. Consequently AT&T is seeing a massive increase in data traffic without a corresponding jump in data revenue.
AT&T has begun throttling back speeds on those customers once they exceed 3 GB on HSPA+ and 5 GB on LTE. more> http://is.gd/h4th6w
