I've some not so good news for the AT&T (and perhaps T-Mobile) clients available. Based on some gossips, Ma Bell will quickly begin to throttle the very best 5% clients who make use of the most data. Allegedly, you may expect this bandwidth throttling to enter effect this October.

Particulars are scarce about this rumor, and we’re not really confident that it is true or otherwise. However, if the in some way turns into a reality, many people will have it. And never in an optimistic way. We, like Gizmodo, are hopeful this can only affect individuals AT&T clients who have an limitless plan. As everyone knows, AT&T wiped out limitless plans a very long time ago. But there have been some who handled to “grandfather in” their limitless plans but still benefit from the miracle of browsing the net without worries.

Despite the fact that we’re not in support of data throttling of any sort, it might take advantage sense to throttle just individuals on limitless data plans-not individuals already assigned with a certain data limit. If the is relevant to everyone, clients on tiered data plans could be getting screwed two times. They’d need to pay $10 for each extra 1GB of information, while being throttled simultaneously. It doesn’t have any worse than that.

Only in america would you pay a company an additional $10 to possess a dial-up-esque wireless connection. Amazing. Let’s expect our sanity’s sake that case a rumor and little else. Because frankly, I don’t think we are able to dislike AT&T’s money-drawing tactics any longer than we already do.

UPDATE: AT&T just confirmed the rumor, folks. And it is both great news and not so good news. What's promising, this speed throttling is only going to make an application for individuals individuals with limitless data plans. Unhealthy news, well, individuals individuals with limitless plans will begin to see some serious speed degradation should you fall on topping 5% category. AT&T also made really sure we realize that this can only affect 5% of their clients. That they say it’s an extremely small percentage, however it means a minimum of millions of people will begin to see some kind of speed throttling. Yikes.