AT&T Tries Out Bandwidth Caps

[blueyes]

The days of all-you-can-eat bandwidth appear to be numbered. AT&T, one of the largest broadband providers in the country, has set usage caps as an experiment in Reno, Nevada.

Under the plan — which became effective Nov. 1 — new AT&T broadband customers in Reno will be capped at 20 GB to 150 GB per month, depending on the plan. And later this year, existing AT&T customers will be subject to the same caps if their usage exceeds 150 GB per month, according to a document filed with the FCC by the company. Users who go over the limit, will be given a one-month grace period, after which point they'll be charged $1 for every GB they use over the cap.

http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/11/att-tries-usage.html

[Tuberavens]

I think they are doing it to try to stop all the illegal downloads

[Ikarus]

Basiclly they are.  It's not as if the bandwidth usage is effecting the system in a negative way, but they want to stop the illegal downloading of films, tv shows and music.  So this is one way of doing that.

[blueyes]

I think they are angling to get more money from us.
looks like they wanna kill streaming tv shows, movies, online gaming......this bites for the future of the net. legal sites like hulu.com and netflix require a lot of bandwith. I`m thinking about changing service providers.

[Ikarus]

ATT's cap is much smaller than Comcast's.  The expectation is that all ISPs will eventually have caps.