No, I have done and can definitely confirm that they are NOT able to throttle my Data Speeds. I changed the permissions to read only so that Boost can no longer write to the throttle folder. They can read how much data I have used and then once I hit my limit they send an update to the files in the "throttle" folder. Because I have changed the permissions internally, the file update they send never gets written in the folder. therefore, not throttle back. It's quite like setting up a rule for your email to block a certain person from emailing you....it just bounces and never shows up in the inbox. same concept here.
I have a friend who works for sprint and is tier 3, so he watches network traffic and controls things if the system goes down.
He has actually played a joke on me once and shut my phone completely off of service from a web hosting office we were at once, did it remotely, illegal yeah probably but we were friends, and I never even thought twice about it. I was about to call Sprint and complain and he persuaded me to check again.....it was on again......cruel and unusual, but sneaky one the less. At the time I wasn't to happy, but looking back it was kinda cool.
But I asked him about throttling, and he confirmed it is a carrier side, not a user side.....they control the switch and how much goes in and out, that's how they can shut your phone off, or reboot it etc.....it's all done from the office, aside from you putting in the info in the phone, IE: the numbers they need you to put in when turning it on. I had to turn on my s2 that way, I did it from my house, they said punch this number in and once you hit the last # or * it opens up that menu, once you put in the numbers or info it needs, they said ok hang on we're rebooting the phone, and sat there and watched it.
I asked my friend if there was ANY way to throttle back the carrier from restricting us the user from usage.....he said nope, they control pretty well all aspects on the carrier side.
I said ok what about those that are getting good speeds above their limit they are on, he said in the huge data base sometimes people slip through the holes or systems just don't catch it......so my guess is they missed you.....as CJ said sit back and enjoy the ride
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I guess I'm not an avid web surfer or user of bandwidth, becasue I never haev reached my limit yet or gone over.....came close I think once, 1.8GB - 1.9GB I think it was, but that's it. Any surfing I do is on my pc at home, and wifi, and normally I have the phone set to wifi when at home too, so a lot of it is probably done via at home, or somone elses wifi, such as place of bussiness that ahs open wifi, etc...
