The Federal Communications Commission has sent a strongly worded letter to Verizon Wireless asking why the company has made it a policy to throttle customers with unlimited data plans.
The note, addressed to Verizon Wireless CEO Daniel Mead and authored by FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, takes the company to task for a recent announcement that users in the "top 5%" of data consumers would soon experience a slow down in data speed if they are on a busy network.
"I am deeply troubled by your July 25, 2014 announcement that Verizon Wireless intends to slow down some customers' data speeds on your 4G LTE network starting in October 2014," Tom Wheeler wrote in the letter, which was passed to Mashable by a source that asked to remain unnamed. Read more...
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