Virgin Mobile originally planned to start throttling data speeds last October, but that never happened. This week, Virgin Mobile revealed it will be going through with those plans starting on March 23, 2012. Virgin Mobile customers that are on a Beyond Talk Plan will be limited to 2.5GB of data every month before throttling takes more »

Verizon announced its “network optimization” practices last month. This is Verizon’s idea of data throttling although it refuses to acknowledge that term. Basically, Verizon will slow 3G data speeds for top users if they are connected to a congested cell site. It has just been proven that 4G data users are also affected by the network optimization policy if Verizon concludes that user is abusing its network.

AT&T has confirmed this week’s rumor about the company moving away from unlimited data and into world of data throttling. Starting on October 1, AT&T will slow data speeds for the top 5% of data users. Chances are most of you reading this won’t notice any difference in speed. It’s still something to know just in case you use a bunch of data every month.

Throttling data speeds is nothing new. Just about all the major carriers are doing it. As smartphones penetration increases, carriers need a way to manage all the bandwidth that’s being sucked up by those phones. If they don’t, connection speeds will slow to a crawl. AT&T has had network congestion problems for a long time and it’ll probably get worse once the new iPhone arrives. To remedy that, AT&T is rumored to start slowing data speeds for some of its more data hungry users.

We did briefly mention the data throttling that Virgin Mobile was planning to start doing come October and well, here are a few more details. Basically, the unlimited plan will remain unlimited in theory. You will be able to use as much data as you want and not have to worry about overages, however once more »

It seems that T-Mobile is all set to begin throttling data for users that go over the 5GB monthly limit. The news is coming by way of an official statement from T-Mobile and reads as follows; “Data Speed Reduction Threshold Beginning on October 16, T-Mobile will begin to reduce data speeds when a customer reaches more »

Gigaom is reporting that the new 250GB cap Comcast announced recently may not be set in stone. In a chat with the site, Comcast spokeperson Charlie Douglas said the cap, which is roughly 100 times more than the average Comcast customer uses in a month, will likely rise as average consumption rises.