Last July Sprint-owned wireless carrier Virgin Mobile changed up their pricing plans significantly, and announced they'd be implementing a new throttling system that involved throttling user speeds back to 256 kbps if they consumed more than 2.5GB a month. In order not to sour the launch of a few new devices, last September Virgin announced they were postponing their throttling plan until "sometime in 2012." 2012 is here, and Virgin Mobile this week announced that the throttling will begin as of March 23.
According to the Virgin Mobile website, starting March 23 users will receive a text message informing them if they've consumed more than 2.5 GB of data in any given month on their "unlimited" data plan. Once you cross the line, your speeds are throttled to 256 kbps for the rest of your billing cycle, and when a new billing cycle starts, your speeds return to normal.
"By putting this data speed reduction in place, we're making sure we can deliver the same quality service you've come to expect from Virgin Mobile," says the company about their plan to slow you to 1999-era speeds. "We hope you understand."
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Virgin Mobile Starts Throttling March 23 - Use More than 2.5 GB, Get Slowed to 256 kbps
Posted: January 19th, 2012, 3:30pm MST