AT&T believes people are willing to pay $7 extra a month for what it says is “ advanced data connection” for real-time efficiency.” This new AT&T “Turbo” the option is now being rolled out, with the operator saying it will “boost all high-speed and hotspot data transfer speeds”; still active.
In a press release announcing the new option, AT&T says that AT&T Turbo will provide better reliability and stability, especially for items which require “real-time response.” In fact, it's just
Designed to support high-end, high-performance mobile applications , such as games, social video broadcasts and real-time video conferencing, with optimized data while customers are on the go. AT&T Turbo allows users to optimize their network whenever they want by adding additional network resources to their mobile data connection.
For example, if customers want fewer lags or lags and lower latency when milliseconds matter . games, AT&T Turbo can help provide real-time responsiveness, improving customer network performance.
While AT&T's statement doesn't go into detail, The Mobile Report says AT&T is essentially moving all plans to Quality of Service Class Identifier 8 (or QCI 8), which is a step back from QCI 7. It's essentially a move down the ladder in terms of network priority. Then, if customers pay $7 a month for AT&T Turbo, they are essentially “buying themselves back into QCI 7.”
AT&T shared more information with Ars Technica today. :
AT&T confirmed to Ars today that Turbo “has been assigned to QCI, which was previously assigned a portion of our consumer traffic.” But AT&T said it has “significantly modified it and increased network resources and relative weighting for AT&T Turbo traffic, thereby creating a higher level of performance than we have ever previously offered to consumers.” ;
AT&T also stated that the QCI “is simply a number assigned to a class of service.” and that “the processing and performance of a given class of traffic is affected by a number of variables that can be tuned to provide a different experience.” AT&T said last summer it “streamlined and simplified the mapping of our plans to QCI levels.” and that “these changes have helped optimize network performance across our entire customer base.”
AT&T Turbo, however, does not give you seamless access to the AT&T Network. First, to add Turbo to your plan, you must already be subscribed to one of AT&T’Unlimited” plans. These plans, of course, don't actually offer unlimited data.
For example, “AT&T Unlimited Extra EL” offers you 75GB of data per month. If you go over this limit, AT&T will limit your data speed “if the network is busy.” – even if you pay $7 a month for Turbo. It's also still not entirely clear how much better performance you can expect if you pay for AT&T, or whether the speed boost will apply to all traffic or just certain traffic.
If you'd like, you can sign up for AT&T Turbo using the myATT app or through the AT&T website.
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