The era of capped broadband begins on May 2 and ATT Is now lying about Users Wanted Caps, Overages. Yeah Right.

Well the End is here.?? There are rumors that att may delay their dreaded data caps until may 12th. The Real Truth here is until ATT stops being greedy and Abolish these total gay data caps or I make the switch to comcast business class internet. I will soon be sign off from slsk.

With that, AT&T, the nation's second-largest ISP, joins Comcast, the nation's top ISP, with capped broadband services. AT&T's DSL customers will have a cap of 150GB a month, while its premium U-Verse customers will have a cap of 250GB a month, the same size as Comcast's cap.

It's effectively the end of home unlimited broadband, with both No. 1 and No. 2 ISPs now enforcing caps, and its only a matter of time before wireless carriers join in across the board, as well. The caps come at a time when content providers (Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, etc.) are trying to get consumers to use more bandwidth, only to see the door closing slowly on how much they can use without penalty.

250GB, or even 150GB, seems like a lot. It all depends on the use, however. We have currently opted into a backup plan in the cloud for our important data, while at the same time keeping multiple copies locally. If we did not throttle the upload, it would have exceeded our 250GB limit in a month (via Comcast) as we had over 500GB of data to upload.

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And Now DSL Reporting today. ATT Is now lying about Users Wanted Caps, Overages. Yeah Right.

"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.

Siegel's distortion here is arrogant and fairly epic, as you'd be hard pressed to find any AT&T subscriber who was clamoring to have their service capped and metered in the age of Netflix streaming and high-definition video. In fact, subscribers have time and time again stated they prefer the simplicity of flat-rate pricing. Overall, the CNN article itself is surprisingly coherent in an age where many journalists unquestioningly buy into ISP arguments that huge unjustified markups on bandwidth are about fairness. Siegel's silliness is countered by quotes like this

 

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ATT has put together a shiny new Web 2.0 Informational FAQ site about their not so-great Bandwidth Cap and Overages And everyone, featured in top Informational slideshows are so happy with ATTs new "Pure Greed Business Plans" Bandwidth Cap and Overage charges. www.MyUsage.att.com

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Right now ATT is running TV Ads in the SF market, stating they are in the process of Upgrading their Wireless network too be the fasting in the Bay Area. But yet, they have the most Restrictive Data Cap of any US. Wireless Carrier. Also ATT are Upgrading their nation Internet Backbone to handle the ongoing growing demand of web traffic. So there enough Bandwidth go around everyone without these ridiculous Data Caps. If ATT U-Verse TV can handle 4HD 24/7 Streams. Then UV internet can handle Unmetered Unlimited Net access for everyone. ATT just want to protect their Profits.