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Comments on news posted 2008-12-01 10:27:29: The Beaumont Enterprise is the first to report that AT&T has extended their trials of metered broadband into the Beaumont, Texas market. ..
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Uverse User
@sbcglobal.net
| Load of Bull No matter how AT&T tries to spin this, they are lying to us all. Uverse is a 25Mbit pipe of which I have at least 2 TV's going almost 24/7 (kids). Do the math on those 2 streams not including any HD/SD I get on the main TV. The bandwidth usage from that obliterates anything I do on my internet for the month. Yes, I know those streams don't count towards a cap, but my point is that Uverse by nature is a bandwidth beast and to say we need caps to protect us from the "abusers" is absurd. How about QOS? If we really have "abusers" then throttle them with QOS. No, this is exactly what others have pointed out...an attempt at monopolizing the bandwidth. AT&T doesn't want other IPTV services competing against Uverse (i.e. Netflix on demand vs. Uverse Pay-Per-View). AT&T doesn't want to compete against Vonage and other IP Telephony services. When the next generation IP Telephony w/ video services come out AT&T doesn't want to compete against them. This is nothing but an Oligopoly where the handful of ISP's left are trying to shut out 3rd party content providers that ride their networks by using the "abuser" excuse.
I guarantee if AT&T does this in my market, the 1st time I'm billed over my cap I will take action. If I can't find another ISP then I'll just drop my speed tier and then I'll hit them on another service by swapping Uverse with DirecTV, or change my wireless from AT&T to Verizon or Sprint, and change my phone service to Vonage. If everyone in these test markets would take the same action, AT&T would drop this in a heartbeat...especially if they start seeing $150/mo subscribers going down to 1/2-1/3 of that. | |
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GilbertMark
Premium
join:2001-05-02
Gilbert, AZ
 ·Cox HSI
| Bravo. This is a fantastic idea. No different from paying for anything else you consume. The more you use/abuse, the more you pay. Forget the word unlimited, businesses exist to make money. In these times they will probably think up other ways to get another dollar out of all of us.
I'm sure someone out there could whip up a number for us demonstrating that the great percentage of subscribers WOULD NEVER BE AFFECTED BY THIS anyway. This billing idea is for "those people" who insist on downloading all kinds of crap they don't need just because they can (video games they are too cheap to pay for, movies, TV shows, software). It'll also affect those people that file share all that crap too. Pay up or good riddance. Those of us who aren't bandwidth addicts shouldn't have to pay to support those who are. | |
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join:2002-01-21
Birmingham, AL
| Re: Bravo. A lot of people hate on Charter talking about how bad they are. Well I have know problems with Charter they offer unlmited access. I've heard they are trying out metered billing I hope not because as of right now I have 2 choices uverse or charter and as long as charter stays uncapped I will gladly cut them a check. | |
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