When a California fire department spoke out this week about getting "throttled" by a wireless carrier, right or wrong the issue of throttling joined the public discussion.
• Switch carriers: T-Mobile and Sprint both say their throttling begins at a more generous 50 GBs of data.
Yes, throttling may save you a few dollars, but it certainly won't win you any friends --lawmakers have already called for hearings on the issue.
The average consumer uses about 7 gigabytes of monthly data, according to Roger Entner, an analyst with Recon Analytics.
And let's face it--we all watch a lot of Netflix and YouTube, so expect us to using more data, not less.
But Verizon can chalk it up to bad customer service for throttling the fire dept.
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