To make matters worse, these throttles can be ridiculously implemented, where if you exceed a certain amount of data over a certain period of time, you get throttled, but not immediately. Instead, the throttle goes into effect up to 2 months later. That has nothing to do with network management and is purely punitive. I'll be glad to see these go.
Docomo Repeals 1 GB Limit
Docomo's limit was 1 GB over 3 days for Xi LTE data. Exceeding that results in a drastic speed decrease on the following day.
Xiのエリア拡充が進み、速度制限を無効にしても、お客様が快適に利用できる環境が整ったため
With continued expansion of the Xi coverage area, we can now provide a good user experience even without speed restrictions.So Docomo will remove the restrictions. Yay! (There's no word on when, however.)
The 366MB 3-day limit on FOMA data will remain.
What about Softbank and KDDI?
Softbank and KDDI have commented that, at the present time, they have no plan to also remove their data limits. So that means they are now scrambling to figure out how to remove their limits, because once one Japanese carrier does something like this, they all have to follow suit or get left behind. I imagine that KDDI will be the first to announce the removal, followed by softbank. When Softbank finally announces, it will be accompanied by a huge amount of noise and BS.
That's interesting. Any idea what the Softbank 3G cap is? I probably break it quite often, as I tether my windows 8.1 tablet to my Nokia 920 windows phone using a Softbank iphone 4s black sim.
ReplyDeleteYou know, it's funny, but I regularly already exceed 1GB per day on my Docomo Xi plan. In fact I average around 600MB per day, up until I hit the 7.5GB monthly limit.
ReplyDeleteSo it's possible that this has already been implemented.
I think wrote this before on G+ but I wonder how or even IF MVNOs will respond to this... Somehow I doubt they'll do anything to restrictions like "300MB/72hours" any time soon ~__~
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know where I best to ask a question about phones and lte bands.
ReplyDeleteI'm on Yahoo mobile and want to buy a xiaomi note from China but not sure if it will work with LTE on Yahoo.
you might check out this site: http://www.willmyphonework.net/
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