AT&T Contacts Customers about Data Usage Allowance: 150gb for DSL & 250gb for U-verse

[mstng86]

I think I am ok:

Usage for:
03-02-2011 to 04-01-2011 2.98 GB Total
2.69 GB download
0.29 GB upload
Usage bar shows up to
150 GB
2.98 GB Total usage*

Usage for:
02-02-2011 to 03-01-2011 3.25 GB Total
2.94 GB download
0.31 GB upload
Usage bar shows up to
150 GB
3.25 GB Total usage*

Usage for:
01-02-2011 to 02-01-2011 3.03 GB Total
2.15 GB download
0.88 GB upload
Usage bar shows up to
150 GB
3.03 GB Total usage*

[Dan03mach]

Yeah screw that stuff. My woman is on the net all day long and the kids watch streaming Netflix all day too. I have At&t and they can eat a dick..

[mustang_revival]

ghey

[Ratt]

This is bullshit. The greedy ass-holes just want us to pay more because their archaic, busted-ass infrastructure needs an update. Any other business with financials in the black would just chalk it up to a necessary cost, whereas AT&T is making the consumer pay for it.

I don't have AT&T internet, but I do have an AT&T iPhone and cellular plan. As if their ridiculous usage charges for the phone plans weren't already cause, this news makes me want to stop giving them my hard earned money.

All of these tech companies are moving in the opposite direction of the normal trends of technological advancements. I thought the days of "pay-per-use" shit like AOL hours were gone. Apparently not.

On a side note, I wish my neighborhood had FiOS.

[347Mike]

just think every isp in America will jump on to this band wagon and no one will do anything to stop it!

When you say no one will do anything to stop it, who exactly are you looking for to do something?

[mstng86]

When you say no one will do anything to stop it, who exactly are you looking for to do something?

Obama.

We needz our internetz!!

[347Mike]

Obama.

We needz our internetz!!

I am really curious to hear what he has to say.

[BP]

ESPN360 and MLB.tv burn up more bandwidth than Netflix, they just aren't used as much. Xbox live and the Playstation Network also offer loads of online content that can burn up 150 gigs pretty easily in a month.

AT&T is stuck in the past. They should be embracing people that use their service and figure out ways to profit from the content consumed instead of starting arbitrary caps. Their networks have plenty of capacity, it doesn't take any more data to watch Fox HD through Uverse than it does to stream the same show through Netflix. The only difference is that they don't generate any revenue if you aren't watching it on their system. It's obvious that people want on demand programming, build a competitive system and offer it to them.

[joes01bullitt]

Yeah screw that stuff. My woman is on the net all day long and the kids watch streaming Netflix all day too. I have At&t and they can eat a AIDS INFECTED dick..

Fixed

[Unicorn Jeff]

www.MyUsage.att.com is only for u-verse customers? I'm trying to create an account but it wont let me because I'm not a u-verse... Pretty much doesn't matter, I'm most likely going to just drop them all together. Whoever works for AT&T here nothing against you, but AT&T blows so much cock it's depressing.

[mstng86]

www.MyUsage.att.com is only for u-verse customers? I'm trying to create an account but it wont let me because I'm not a u-verse... Pretty much doesn't matter, I'm most likely going to just drop them all together. Whoever works for AT&T here nothing against you, but AT&T blows so much cock it's depressing.

No its not. I have DSL and logged in.

you have to use your att email addy you have registered with them.

asshole@att.net for instance.

[bcoop]

When you say no one will do anything to stop it, who exactly are you looking for to do something?

Consumers need to step and and take a stand against it. Call and cancel your service, tell them where you are going, and make sure they know WHY you're leaving. The only way to get through to corporations like this is to hit them in the pocket book.

But, everyone these days has a me first and me only attitude, and nobody will take a stand. Boycotts are a thing of the past.

[Unicorn Jeff]

Consumers need to step and and take a stand against it. Call and cancel your service, tell them where you are going, and make sure they know WHY you're leaving. The only way to get through to corporations like this is to hit them in the pocket book.

But, everyone these days has a me first and me only attitude, and nobody will take a stand. Boycotts are a thing of the past.

I would of dropped them already if Verizon would do some work in our neighborhood... I live in Park Glen and only have access to AT&T Reg DSL and various cables with suck

[bcoop]

I would of dropped them already if Verizon would do some work in our neighborhood... I live in Park Glen and only have access to AT&T Reg DSL and various cables with suck

Yeah, I know a lot of people in that situation. It seems like AT&T targeted the areas where FiOS isn't, because they didn't want to get run out of town. People in apartments and such, don't have much of a choice. FiOS runs to some apartments, but not many. Then of course all the outer lying areas, where FiOS hasn't been run yet.

[talisman]

Oh sweet, it's like being on Prodigy back in 1994 again! We all know how well that worked out for Prodigy!