Top 5% of Sprint's unlimited users could be throttled starting next month

Postpaid Sprint customers, along with pre-paid users on its Boost and Virgin Mobile brands, have received notification about Sprint's plan to use data "prioritization management" starting next month. That is a fancy term, that in plain language means that the carrier will start to throttle the data speeds of its heaviest users, in the most congested areas.



The idea is for Sprint to allow everyone in a particularly congested part of its network, to receive high quality data at the same time. Once a heavy data-using customer is no longer in the affected region, or the traffic in a congested ...



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