ATT: unlimited bandwidth equals 5gig

[tickler]

This may cut down on the porn surfing, and smart phone sales.

AT&T says you’re using too much bandwidth! Bad you!
All you punks out there watching Internet video and downloading monkey porn had better stop! There’s a current 5 gigabyte cap on data right now but soon, friends, AT&T is going to close up that “unlimited” plan and hopes to educate the consumer on proper data use.
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/12/...width-bad-you/

Hey Cleo, are you in the 3% using too much

[MMemmer]

Does this mean that BW really can't be given away as FREE, say it isn't so!

[Cleo]

We have two iphones on one account and even with streaming radio and watching a bunch of youtube we go through less then 3 gigs a month.

[Allfetish]

I had their mobile broadband for my laptop but canceled within the 30 days to avoid the contract. Their overage charges were something like $500 per GB -- no that's not a typo -- Five hundred dollars per GB over 5 GB in a month. In my opinion that sort of overage charge ought to be criminal.

To confuse people they also like to present the overage as a charge per MB ... most of the people out there don't know the difference between a KB, MB, or GB.

[tickler]

Originally Posted by Allfetish

I had their mobile broadband for my laptop but canceled within the 30 days to avoid the contract. Their overage charges were something like $500 per GB -- no that's not a typo -- Five hundred dollars per GB over 5 GB in a month. In my opinion that sort of overage charge ought to be criminal.

To confuse people they also like to present the overage as a charge per MB ... most of the people out there don't know the difference between a KB, MB, or GB.

Yeah, I know my cable(medium sized) uses $1/100mB for overages. When I was talking to their billing support one time, I tried pinning them down about how they could charge $10/gB when tier one is getting arounf $0.25/gB. Nothing like a 4000% markup eh!

[Cleo]

I've heard that Verizon's laptop connect is better but I don't know what their fees are.

[LD]

Originally Posted by Cleo

I've heard that Verizon's laptop connect is better but I don't know what their fees are.

I don't know what the overage fees are, but the basic monthly service is about the same, $60us a month. I had trouble with Verizon because it would not work in all the places the ATT worked. Verizon claims to have a larger coverage area, but a lot of that area is out of the main network, and the connection is very slow.