Unlimited Data Plans with AT&T
HUM114-Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving Skills

Unlimited Data Plans with AT&T When approaching a popular situation and an issue that will affect millions of people, critical, creative thinking would help to ensure a better acceptance and understanding to be able to adapt to changes. Since 1990, major cellular phone corporations have offered many different plans to customers that were suitable for different types of lifestyles. Plans with unlimited usage of talk, text and web were offered at a higher rate. Since the popularity of its introduction to unlimited web usage has increased rapidly, one of the major cellular firms, AT&T, decided to limit their customers unlimited plan by not disclosing their intent to throttle their services.
According to Peter Svensson (2012), of the Associated Press, “AT&T Inc. put a virtual wheel clamp on a customer’s phone.” This virtual wheel clamp disabled customer, Mike Trang’s, access to the internet and his GPS services at certain times and in certain areas. When web pages were available for Trang to utilize, the time it took for the data speed to load pages were increased and took longer to retrieve than it normally would have if the virtual wheel clamp were never put on his line that caused the restrictions.
When questioned about the limit that AT&T put on their customers with unlimited plans, Mark Siegel (2012) stated that, “Under a new policy, AT&T has started cutting their data speeds as part of an attempt to manage data usage on its network.” The reporting of this news story was clear and accurate. Sources were provided from both a customer with an unlimited contracted plan with AT&T and an AT&T spokesman. I believe this report covered both aspects of both the cellular corporation’s points of views and their reasoning for throttling phone usages.
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