Monday, May 5, 2014

Sprint To Start Throttling Heavy Users

Almost all of the major carriers throttle network data in some way or another, and it looks like Sprint is no exception.

Two of Sprint's smaller companies, Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile, have both announced that they will soon be throttling some of the networks more heavy data users even more than that have stated in the past, and just recently it's been brought to light that Sprint itself will be electing to throttle some of it's own heavy users.

Sprint has sent out texts to users alerting them of the new prioritizing management plan that is set to go in effect next month. This plan will supposed only go in effect on the top 5% of data users on Sprint's network. Sprint has confirmed this in an official statement, elaborating that this will benefit the rest of the network as it can provide high quality usage even during heavy-load times.