AT&T has made another change to its policies regarding its restrictive Unlimited Data Plan customer limits, by giving its customers a lot more leeway. The carrier is now going to allow subscribers on the unlimited plans to use up to 22GB of data within a single billing period before any throttling will take place, an increase from the previous monthly allowances of 5GB for LTE data and 3GB of 3G data before bandwidth starts to get restricted.
Slashgear notes the new threshold is more than four times the LTE limit. In May, AT&T quietly changed its terms of service to only throttle customer LTE connections when they had exceeded their allowance and if they were in "areas that are experiencing network congestion." This congested network language remains intact, even with the new higher usage limit.
If customers are using a high amount of data on their device, AT&T will warn customers when they reach 16.5GB of usage, effectively 75 percent of the limit, advising them to change their usage and of the potential network management practices that may come into force for the line.