Netflix Data Makes AT&T Caps Look Less 'Generous' > Where are the consumers who have been "clamoring" for

I love how AT&T just throws that out there. I am not an AT&T user, but I know I have never heard anyone clamoring for someone to cap their unlimited broadband. I have however heard plenty of voices crying against the money grab that is unfair caps and overage charges. Why doesn't AT&T address that? I can't stand this corporations that exist inside their own bubble.

AT&T's caps will affect just 2% of its customers, the company said. The restrictions are necessary, AT&T maintained, because those in the top 2% use up 20% of the network's bandwidth. The highest-traffic users download as much as 19 typical households, on average, which slows speeds for other users, AT&T said.

"Our approach is based on customers' feedback," said Mark Siegel, spokesman for AT&T. "They told us that the people who use the most should pay more, and they also told us we should make it easy for them to track their usage. We think our approach addresses these concerns."

Siegel called the caps "generous," and said that AT&T's DSL customers use just 18 GB per month on average. The company didn't provide similar statistics for its U-Verse high-speed Internet customers. Globally, broadband customers typically use 15 GB per month, according to Cisco

Quite a bit different that customers "clamoring" for caps. I think most people when asked if heavy users that effect others speed should pay more would say yes. You can argue that AT&T's question maybe misleading (or leading), but I don't think one can reinterpret the statement to "AT&T customers are clamoring for caps". Just misleading.

If they don't use caps they will raise the price on everyone. If you only use 50 meg a month do you want your bill going up because you don't want caps.

What has been the complaint about cable until recently? It was my speed drop to a crawl when everybody was using the service at the same time.
The internet was originally designed for e-mail and web pages where the parts could arrive and be assembled at the end. With video the packets must stay in order and arrive in real time or be buffered.
On at&t older system the emails worked but if several customers are downloading video it uses up most of the incoming bandwidth to the dslam.

Comcast has had the 250 cap for a while and they are adding customers. They don't charge you extra they cut you off.

If you are not a heavy user your speeds may improve if the heavy users in the neighborhood move off the service because of caps.

Why don't they lower it or give you rollover if you only use 50 megs? Regardless, they say that 2% of users go over the caps. Then what is the need. Can these two percent really be using all this bandwidth? And trust me, eventually these "generous" caps will seem low and they will not raise them as bandwidth use for EVERYONE increases.

They believe in a "Use it or Lose it business model."