AT&T considering bandwidth caps for DSL customers
- June 13th, 2008
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AT&T is the latest company to consider plans to charge heavy downloaders more than casual downloaders, crippling not only pirates but stifling legitimate innovation in the process. That’s what a spokesperson told the AP, though no specific plans have been announced as yet.
Even worse, this is DSL we’re talking about. We’re used to cable providers huffing and puffing about bandwidth hogs destroying the neighborhood’s capacity, but DSL? That’s a first (I think).
Time to get a Sweden-based seedbox.
WT
2008-06-13 15:32:56
I use ATT instead of Comcast only because they do not hassle me when I download TV shows and movies from iTunes. If they choose to limit downloads then I have no reason to continue to use their DSL, or keep a land line for that matter.
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james green
2008-07-27 21:26:17
What I don’t understand is that if you or I pay for 1.5 mbps. download and I can never seem to download that fast.
Then no matter how much I download I am never going over what I pay for. Like DSL, If everyone purchased 1.5 mbps and never exceeded the downloaded bandwidth, then how can AT&T complain. Or are they selling something to people they cannot deliver on. As far as I am concerned if I purchase 1.5 mbps, I should be able to download 1.5 mbps 24 hrs, 7 days a week and so should anyone else that purchases it. They set the limits when they sell their service and now they want to complain about it. And to end this, when you or I purchase something, isn’t up to us what we do with what we purchase. Are those who speak to long on the phone next? This is nothing more than the rich trying to take more from the poor people like they havn’t taken enough already.
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