At&t to impliment caps May 2nd
 

If you are an AT&T subscriber with U-verse or DSL connectivity in your home we have some bad news. AT&T is set to add caps to the broadband plans that will see users that go over set amounts monthly being hit with overage charges. Letters will be going out next week to notify users of AT&T services.

Apparently, the cap for DSL subscribers will be 150GB monthly. If you are a U-Verse subscriber, the cap will be 250GB monthly. These tidbits came from AT&T representative Seth Bloom at SXSW in Austin. If a customer goes over those data limits, they will be charged $10 for each additional 50GB block of data.

Bloom says that users that go over the caps will get a onetime grace period and after that, the user will be notified when they have reached 65% of the monthly allowed data and notified again at 90% and at 100% used.

http://www.slashgear.com/att-to-add-...lans-14139781/

this is a sad news :)

Got to be pretty greedy to go over 250GB monthly.

hardly. Also it's 150 GB for DSL customers. The VAST majority of at&t customers.

In other news...

"Korea Will Bring 1Gpbs Broadband To Every Home for $27 a Month By 2013"
http://stopthecap.com/2011/02/23/kor...month-by-2013/

Don't you love it? Elsewhere speeds increase nearly exponentially and prices drop significantly. But in America and other western nations where the cable and telecom industries yield significant power speeds increase slowly and prices rise with the increases. If hosting plans were the same way I'd probably be paying $1000 for 10 TB of bandwidth instead of $50.

I think Time Warner now offers "Roadrunner lite" which is $30 a month. It's like 768k. Apparently South Korea is going to offer a service over 1000 times faster for less money than Time Warner's crappy lite plan. How can someone who is reasonable agree with this? And why is a 768k plan $30 a month anyway? Seems like overcharging and profit taking to me. Such a plan ought to be closer to $5 to $10.

AT&T seems hard up for bandwidth these days. Everyone else is going unlimited and AT&T is running in the other direction.