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Just another step towards me leaving the grid altogether. That day is coming because when we, the customer have to hope that the entity that we pay money to will treat us the way we like instead of the way "they" like, then the whole thing is turned around backwards. I'm sick of it.
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150GB per month for ADSL---funny, 'cause downloading that much from a the typical 1.5Mbps takes real dedication in the first place.
At least they recognize that a faster connection uses more bandwidth, but their limit there of 250GB, in lock-step with Comcast, shows a profound lack of uh, marketing creativity. And a crapload of anti-competitive duopoly.
I don't even know if we come close to 150GB a month, but thank you, AT&T, for giving me the push I needed to actually drop you and sign up with Comcast now. Particularly since you can't be bothered to offer U-Verse in my neighborhood.
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... and again, 98% of our customers will not be impacted by this.
Translation: We'll get to them later.
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You have to wonder WHY they were so happy building fast fast fast 'last mile' infrastructure, and forgetting the big honking pipes in the middle. I mean.. DUH !
Sort of like running 2000 amp lines to every home, and then wondering WHY some houses are actually using more than the old 10 amps ?
Stupid.
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I don't know how much bandwidth a U-verse user would typically use, but the 150 GB cap sounds reasonable to me-- I am not convinced this measure is aimed at more than cutting off the folks who are out-and-out abusing the service, e.g. sub-contracting with neighbors and such.