AT&T Considers Download Limits
AT&T is running pilot studies on limiting internet use. The limit AT&T would impose is 20 GB per month:
“…In a trial that began Nov. 1, the carrier is limiting subscribers of each speed tier of DSL to uploading and downloading a certain amount of data, the company said. The limits would range from 20G bytes for subscribers of the 768M bps (bit-per-second) tier to 150G bytes for users of the 10M bps offering.”
link: AT&T Trialing DSL Bandwidth Caps
Twenty gigabytes may seem like a workable limit. However, many AT&T customers will be in for a very unpleasant surprise if these are indeed the limitation parameters.
Catherine Forsythe
3 Comments
Jason King
November 5th, 2008
at 7:21pm
I do not want limits. I work in IT and I will have issues with my telecommute with limits. If that’s what it comes to I’ll cancel my AT&T DSL, AT&T phone and AT&T celluar service. I’ll make a complete switch to Verizon who at this time has no limits planned.
barry sandinureyes
November 9th, 2008
at 2:12pm
Limits mean I will not switch to ATT, no chance. Comcast is bad enough with a non official 250 GB. I am sick of paying for a service that throttles speed though. Time to forget about using internet for convenience. Us it at library for business only.
Today, History was Made ~ Chris Pirillo
December 3rd, 2008
at 10:27pm
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