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QC
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The meter's running

OK, lets say AT&T does metered billing. Could IPTV (like U-Verse) traffic be separated? Because that's Mega GIGs, and if they can separate it, I will fear them.

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Re: The meter's running

Absolutely. U-Verse TV traffic is already managed beside data traffic within the home. Though AT&T stopped their metered billing trials, in part I'm told by someone at AT&T, because the monitoring and billing changes they would have had to implement wouldn't have paid for themselves within five years...

QC
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Re: The meter's running

I fear them, and maybe you a little!

FBGuy
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Re: The meter's running

you only fear what you don't understand.

QC
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Re: The meter's running

Correction!
I fear what I DO understand.

FBGuy
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Re: The meter's running

U-Verse TV traffic does not hit the internet. Any caps that AT&T would have would most likely be at the gateway to the internet.
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Re: The meter's running

Which is not where the bottlenecks have potential to exist. I would expect (and the net neutrality nannies would demand), that if IPTV bandwidth is consumed from your access to the Internet (i.e. U-verse cuts into a customer's 18-25 Mbps connection), then it should fall under caps and UBB. Maybe that's another reason AT&T has currently postponed its UBB trials?

QC
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Re: The meter's running

It would sneakily force out other streaming movie providers to push their own PPV content.

Rambo76098

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Columbus, OH
If AT&T did put caps on the internet only, they'd be mad. There is no way they could justify them if the TV portion of UVerse was not metered.

"Watch as much Uverse TV as you want! But only so much Netflix or you get to pay overages!"

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