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Globe Sets Your Speed to ONE PERCENT When You Hit Data Cap Limit

Globe Broadband's Speed Limiter Upon Reaching Monthly Data Cap Globe's deliberate move to cap speed 60 KBPS.  Yup that is Kilobytes in this day and age. Globe has what it calls "fair use policy" which throttles users speed when you reach their monthly limit.  Now that is fair enough. What I don't find fair is this: 1)  They don't even notify you, your speed just suddenly drops to speed equivalent to dial-up days of the early 90s.  Below is the worst speed I noticed -- 60kbps!   It is averaging at 80kbps.  This is really absurd.   Yes granted that I reach the limit but 80kbps is a punishment, you cannot even load Gmail in 15 minutes with that speed! 2)  They don't even warn you.  How about a text message, or an email, or maybe a working webpage that gives you that warning.  Nothing.  They just choke you without warning.  Maybe they had before or they plan to do it in the future but right now -- August 30, 2018 9AM, there is nothin