Are you one of the lucky AT&T users who retained his or her unlimited data plan after the services got cancelled during the mad iPhone days?  Well, once you hit the threshold of 2 GB used in a month, prepare yourself for throttling.  That’s when AT&T reduces your wireless internetting to a crawl under the guise of sparing bandwidth for other, lesser users.  Don’t believe me?  Here’s a real-world complaint rounded up by Tech-Ex:

I am in Houston and got warned on day 30/31 for reaching 1.54 GB! I was shocked because about two months ago I got warned at 4.5 GB. I find it impossible to believe that Houston is an “insuffcient network” area, and/or that the threshhold for 5% has dropped from 4.5 to 1.5 in a few months. This is BS!

Is that kind of mandatory bandwidth limit annoying?  Of course it is, but AT&T has said that the highest 5% of users uses 2GB or so of data per month, and that’s when they’re going to start making your life less mobile with their caps.  Plus, they have a 3GB tiered plan, and there’s no better way to get you off of the free unlimited than to make it a less attractive alternative than a higher plan with lucrative overages.  Undoubtedly, that’s their goal; the question is, will users continue to resist and put up with the throttle, or will they cave and let AT&T win?