There have been quite a few articles surrounding the issue of throttling and now Verizon is being added to the conversation. I still believe the issue will come down to capacity rather than data. Here’s a quote from a piece in the WSJ from AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson:

“In a capacity-constrained environment, usage-based data plans, increased pricing, managing the speeds of the highest volume users—these are all logical and necessary steps to manage utilization,” Mr. Stephenson said in a January conference call with analysts.   ANTON TROIANOVSKI And GREG BENSINGER, Wall Street Journal.

There’s going to have to be an option that serves those with real-time needs and those who get their data later.

Bob