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New from AT&T: Psycho data caps.

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  • 30-07-2011 9:07am
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    clohamon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭


    A brilliant wheeze from AT&T. There's no data cap, there's not even a FUP estimate, but if you're in the top 5% you get throttled. (…….or you can move to a capped plan).
    Starting October 1, smartphone customers with unlimited data plans may experience reduced speeds once their usage in a billing cycle reaches the level that puts them among the top 5 percent of heaviest data users.
    http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=20535&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=32318&mapcode=corporate

    Interesting to see if this kind of psychological device works as planned or if uncapped heavy users just move. Either way it looks like a win for AT&T

    The second bit is even less subtle. The only way to cure this problem, implies AT&T, is for customers to contact state and federal representatives to make sure that AT&T's merger with T-Mobile gets the all clear; i.e. bring political pressure on the FCC.
    But even as we pursue this additional measure, it will not solve our spectrum shortage and network capacity issues.* Nothing short of completing the T-Mobile merger will provide additional spectrum capacity to address these near term challenges.

    http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-20085148-85/at-t-t-mobile-merger-finds-more-support-in-the-states/


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