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The whole situation just got much worse instead. The current ISPs fucking everybody in America plan is this, the "six strikes" idea: http://www.pcworld.com/article/23526...x_strikes.html
Pretty much every ISP in the country seems to be considering usage fines. In particular AT&T is well... Trying to fuck absolutely every single one of their customers blatantly. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/T...42?nocomment=1
The real issue with AT&T's little plan, though I'm not sure if anybody's been hit with overage fines yet... Is they're explicitly limiting uverse customers to 250GB/mo. However, this is only supposed to be the internet segment, not the multiple IPTV streams and VOIP that run through the same modem. Meaning they have zero capacity issues here. Of course some areas are also getting shafted by way of being limited to less than the unused line speed anyway.
Overall, this country is extremely screwed for internet access. Outside of a few major markets there is no actual competition. Partly because AT&T laid fiber EVERYWHERE and is just sitting on it to theoretically compete with companies that absolutely will not go anywhere near where AT&T's dark fiber lives. Not that AT&T is the only problem, they're just a serious issue having grown to larger than their pre-breakup size.
Pretty much every ISP in the country seems to be considering usage fines. In particular AT&T is well... Trying to fuck absolutely every single one of their customers blatantly. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/T...42?nocomment=1
The real issue with AT&T's little plan, though I'm not sure if anybody's been hit with overage fines yet... Is they're explicitly limiting uverse customers to 250GB/mo. However, this is only supposed to be the internet segment, not the multiple IPTV streams and VOIP that run through the same modem. Meaning they have zero capacity issues here. Of course some areas are also getting shafted by way of being limited to less than the unused line speed anyway.
Overall, this country is extremely screwed for internet access. Outside of a few major markets there is no actual competition. Partly because AT&T laid fiber EVERYWHERE and is just sitting on it to theoretically compete with companies that absolutely will not go anywhere near where AT&T's dark fiber lives. Not that AT&T is the only problem, they're just a serious issue having grown to larger than their pre-breakup size.
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