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Boost throttle lets remove it!!!

FLAWLESSVW said:
A few months ago I was a Boost evangelist, now not so much based on the throttle.
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Couldn't have said it better myself, I even toted how generous they were by giving us unlimited data to my sister so she signed up for 2 phones feb 1st, now they start throttling.

I understand the business reasons for throttling, and certainly in a congested area if you're using up a big chunk of available data transfer rate, or are using 20GB/mo or more, throttling is warranted. If you're going to throttle each person as soon as they hit 2.5gb of data, that's not unlimited. That's a 2.5GB allowance with limited usage thereafter.

It truly should be illegal to call something unlimited and then induce a cap. That's like saying this is an all you can eat buffet, but you can only have 2 plates of food. Granted, the average probably is 2 plates of food, but that's not "all you can eat", and advertising it as such shouldn't be permitted.
 
There argument is, it is still unlimited. The speeds have restrictions but you will always have data services. It suxs though anyway ya look at it
 
I found this app on XDA FORUMS.Says its a "throttle reset"app...i installed it and i did see a small increase in speeds..it cant be a complete reset cuz my speeds r still really crappy and have been since i capped out on the 3rd of this month (eventhough my cycle resets on the 2nd)had to get boost to reset my cap cuz this is the 2nd time in a row that i "exceeded my data usage"the day after i reboost..the funny thing is that i didnt even use my phone all day on the day i got the text saying i was over on usage...Anyways heres the apk..let me know if you guys see a difference after using it..

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lhlxxcnnrdadjal/ThrottleReset.apk
 
FLAWLESSVW said:
I'm going to shoot off an email (always keep it professional and courteous of course) letting them know that this is not what I signed up for. A few months ago I was a Boost evangelist, now not so much based on the throttle.
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I feel the same. I have been a Boost customer for a long time (from back when they only had Nextel). I would recommend them to my friends, and even bought a phone for someone as a gift. With their announcement of the 2.5gig throttle (or should I say the throttling to the extreme bottom end of 3g), I haven't been touting them anymore.
 
FLAWLESSVW said:
I am thinking we should all email boost customer service and complain about this. No telling if it will make any difference, but in my experience it does pay off to let companies know where you're dissatisfied.

If x# of people just up and leave, as opposed to telling them WHY they are leaving (or considering leaving) they may rethink their strategy.

I'm going to shoot off an email (always keep it professional and courteous of course) letting them know that this is not what I signed up for. A few months ago I was a Boost evangelist, now not so much based on the throttle.
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In the TOS when you sign up, it states that they can change there service no matter what you were told. I also think if a lot of people left boost it would not hurt Sprint seeing as they about to push their new prepaid plan. I look at it like this though, you get what you pay for. It's unlimited but there comes a price with unlimited every thing at such a low price.
 
It simply isn't unlimited anymore. When you are throttled down to 256kbps, the total data you can pull is quite limited compared to normal 3g (let alone 4g). As far as hurting Sprint goes, It would depend on how many jump ship to another carrier. Boost does have a lot of customers and that number grew as the new phones came out. Sprint does customer relation problems with its own customer base. I also consider it a kind of a low blow when Boost came out with the WiMAX 4g phones and weren't upfront with customers about the future of it. I knew WiMAX wasn't going to expand, but then I didn't get the phone for 4g, though others did.
 
Me personally look at it like this boost did not have 4g at all till this and some other phone.Boost got 4g late but look at the world, other carriers were starting to get away from wimax and all get LTE. Soon boost will be on LTE. I think it was a step in the right direction because they didn't have 4g at all, they was just late to it in the game.Again people with their hopes up but yes this phone just came to boost, but this is a old ass phone....Most phones that came out last year were all LTE, wimax is a thing of the past. I am glad they are doing away with wimax cause now they are more up to date with LTE.
 
I downloaded over 10 gigs last pay period in battlefield 3 updates and music. I got throttled for the first time and close to 1500 mb carried over to this periods data usage. I looked at my account yesterday which is the beginning of my new period.
 
So you are saying they carried over your data use that was used on the previous month to the current month?
 
I never had a problem with capping out until i switched back to the monthly plan from the daily.less then 24 after i put 55 on my account and switched bak to monthly i got a text saying i was at 85% and not 3 hours later i got a text saying i exceeded my limit.the last 3 months it has done that.last time i called then talking crap cuz 8 hours after my cycle started over i got that DAMNED TEXT.demanded they reset it and they did,also gave me a $5 credit:cool: now im only getting around 50kbps on a good day cuz i got the text again 3 days after they reset it..
 
Flashing a zip for the warp on the S2 is also pretty wrong. Luckily it didn't hurt anything. Lol


But yeah it is definitely pretty low of Boost to change meaning of unlimited
 
Codegerm said:
Okay that is simply wrong. I would be raising hell on that crap.
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I'm thinking about it. You know what I will. I was hoping I could fall back under their radar again though that's why I wanted to wait and see if I could get over 2.5 gigs before they throttled me or if I would be throttled at exactly 2.5 this time.I thought calling would only draw attention to myself.I would rather change the files in root explorer which I haven't tried yet.
 
harjodh_singh said:
I'm thinking about it. You know what I will. I was hoping I could fall back under their radar again though that's why I wanted to wait and see if I could get over 2.5 gigs before they throttled me or if I would be throttled at exactly 2.5 this time.I thought calling would only draw attention to myself.I would rather change the files in root explorer which I haven't tried yet.
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Didn't help. I was still throttled after changing the files and permissions. :mad:
 
I wouldent have posted about that throttle zip unless i tried it myself.i expected it to jack sumthing up cuz of it being from the warp forums.but thats what backups r for right?lol. its not like it would have hurt my speeds anymore that wat they r already..and to be 100% honest..it did speed it up a bit..but thats cuz im prolly use to having super crappy speeds for the last 17 days..
 
Ya but remember..just because a MOD or whatever is in a specific thread dosent mean its always just for that certain phone..lol
 
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