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Letters to be mailed to customers next week. Those that exceed their allotment during the first month will get a one-time reprieve, but will face overage fees in subsequent months.AT&T is reportedly going to join the growing list of ISPs with data caps in place. According to GigaOM, it plans to to send out letters to customers next week informing them that DSL subscribers will face a 150GB p/mo cap, and for U-Verse 250GB p/mo.“Less than 2% of our Internet customers could be impacted by this approach – those who are using a disproportionate amount of bandwidth,” wrote company spokesman Seth Bloom in an email. “We will communicate early and often with these customers so they are well aware of their options before they incur any additional usage charges. Importantly, we are not reducing the speeds, terminating service or limiting available data like some others in the industry.Customers will get a grace period during the first month, but will face overage fees in subsequent months. Bloom says that customers will be notified when they’ve reached 65%, 90%, and then 100% of their limit. He also added that the average AT&T DSL customer only uses 18GB p/mo.According to DSLReports, however customers will still be given three warnings over the life of their account before they face overage fees, at which time they’ll have to shell out $10 for every 50GB they exceed their limit.AT&T first began data cap trials in a few small areas back in November of 2008, but never rolled them out nationwide. Comcast, on the other hand, has had a nationwide 250GB data cap in place since October of that same year. Charter rolled out nationwide data caps a few months later in February of 2009, and recently updated its acceptable use policy to have strict tiered caps of 100GB, 250GB, and 500GB p/mo depending on your subscription package.Across the pond in the UK, however BT recently scrapped monthly data caps since “atypical” heavy users comprised a mere 0.5% of its customers.
People need to make a stand against such abuses of power. Everyone that can should just dump AT&T as their ISP, and move on to someone else. If enough people do it then it will send out a statement to all ISP's that such business practices will mean huge losses in revenue, and possibly leading to the company going broke.
Quote from: achilles on March 15, 2011, 04:22:56 amPeople need to make a stand against such abuses of power. Everyone that can should just dump AT&T as their ISP, and move on to someone else. If enough people do it then it will send out a statement to all ISP's that such business practices will mean huge losses in revenue, and possibly leading to the company going broke. in the US you have 2 choices.... DSL or Cable.... dumping AT&T DSL leaves just comcast... or whatever the local cable company is... ...and tbh i dont know of any other DSL companies... at least that havent been absorbed by AT&T....
@achilles; im on dial ... broadband doesnt reach here...
Quote from: Silver Stripes on March 17, 2011, 10:18:48 am@achilles; im on dial ... broadband doesnt reach here... Silver Stripes, that really sucks! I hope they get Broad Band or at least DSL where you are soon!
Quote from: achilles on March 18, 2011, 02:49:58 amQuote from: Silver Stripes on March 17, 2011, 10:18:48 am@achilles; im on dial ... broadband doesnt reach here... Silver Stripes, that really sucks! I hope they get Broad Band or at least DSL where you are soon! If your ISP charges $170 per month for 56k then they should be in prison. It is interesting as you pointed out there is no possible way to reach the 250gb cap on your 56k connection. You can't even get anywhere close to reaching it. If the government should ever step in for abuse then this is one of those times. I hope that if the cure for cancer or aids is ever discovered that it will not be at the hands of people like this. If there is a hell then they are trying there best to get there. problem is, with att adding its caps basically means 'we cover all the areas we are going to cover' ... so DSL is out... that also means that the cable company here has no competition and no desire to improve/extend their service so their 170$/mo price tag will only go up... if it hasnt since last i looked... (thats 170$ for just internet ... 250gig cap... 5$ extra for every gig over that month)... 'net by cell phone company is just as insane... if not moreso... for att its $30 for a data plan + $30 if you want to 'tether' + whatever for your basic plan that you pick... all for a lowly 2gig a month cap... ...and you have to buy your own modem if you want something other than a cheap (in quality) usb dongle... ...an isp called 'clear' would be the closest thing to feasible.. if they had any presence in this state (im not holding my breath)... btw, to put that 2gig cap in some really interesting perspective; if a 56k dial modem with a semi-good connect were left connected and transferring data 24/7 the combined up and download speed would reach a total of ~14gig transferred per month..
