DaneJasper Sonic.Net Premium,VIP join:2001-08-20 Santa Rosa, CA kudos:7
As predicted - a little bump
This is exactly what I predicted would happen (in my article here: »corp.sonic.net/blog/2008/01/08/s···-anyway/ ). AT&T is going to slowly bump the speed to match or slightly beat the prevailing speed that cable offers - but they're never going to open up the pipe to let users do what users want to do with it!
It's all designed to prevent Internet delivery of entertainment (HD video) content. See the article for my case for this. We need a real competitive broadband environment in the US to remedy these problems!
quote:It's all designed to prevent Internet delivery of entertainment (HD video) content. See the article for my case for this. We need a real competitive broadband environment in the US to remedy these problems!
Yup. AT&T's "anti-piracy" filter plays into this too. I believe that's also why Time Warner is eyeing up monthly data transfer caps. They're figuring out that fast, flat rate pipes enable things that eat into their own business model. They're all just taking slightly different approaches to the same problem.
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