Apparently, the unlimited data user's in safaricom are "abusing", the network, that the unlimited data deal is unprofitable, that there needs to be either throttling or termination, that 1% is using up 70% of the network resources.
https://twitter.com/#!/bobcollymore/status/190399262775971841 Am back in the office & looking at issue of data speeds. We're seeing serious abuse of unlimited data by small number of users
https://twitter.com/#!/bobcollymore/status/190399689974218752 this is making unlimited in current form unprofitable. We need to decide between throttling or ending unlimited altogether.
https://twitter.com/#!/bobcollymore/status/190426085526212608 It's worse than that. < 1% of users using > 70% of resource. Hence the need for a Fair Usage Policy....
I think that they have already implemented the throttling. Currently experiencing +- 128 kbps or +-16 KB/s on the unlimited, but when I switch to a different data plan, I get over 200 KB/s on the E160, a 3.5 Mbps modem, and the location is not in the data belt.
One would reason that if an "Unlimited" deal is sold for X price with X bandwidth, then the service provider will also need to already have the capacity to deliver the service prior to announcing the deal, the service being, the "Unlimited" experience. Now, when the user's purchase and and go thought the "Unlimited" experience, it becomes network abuse.
Since it has been throttled backwards, this simply means that safaricom did not have the capacity needed to meet the needs of the "Unlimited" 512 Kbps service that was being sold.
They tried to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds.