[TriLUG] OT: URGENT: H.129 to be heard in Thursday's Finance Committee!

[Len Boyle]

Interesting

The att.com web site for dsl does not list the cap feature, only the different speeds. 
Which by charging for different speeds and home vs business use, they were already using tiered rates. Of course if the apply caps to the already set prices, that does seem like a price increase.

But if we are going to call it the telephone model they do have all you can use local and all you can use long    distance rates that are not much different than the not all you can use plans. 

The listed rates on the att.com page are much lower for a year then the standard rate, I wonder if existing customers can get the lower rate if they say they will leave to go to the cable company if they do not get the lower rate.

len



-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of William Chandler
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 3:39 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: URGENT: H.129 to be heard in Thursday's Finance Committee!

The base being $39.99 or whatever you already pay per month.  Then you only get 5 GB/month.  If you want more you pay more.  There is no "cheap" bottom rung.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Chris Merrill <chris at webperformance.com>wrote:

> I dunno, looking at the pricing, it looks very fair to me. It is not a 
> cap, it is tiered pricing. If you use more, you pay more...just like 
> electricity, water, food, gas.  What am I missing?
>
>
> On 3/14/2011 3:27 PM, matt at noway2.thruhere.net wrote:
> > How much would you like to bet that the caps are aimed at preventing 
> > the downloading streaming media?
> >
> >> The cap is not for everyone and you will get a letter stating you 
> >> are
> now
> >> metered.
> >>
> >
> >>
> >> On Mar 14, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Mark Turner <jmarkturner at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello TriLUGers,
> >>>
> >>> Just yesterday, AT&T announced it would immediately cap it's 
> >>> U-Verse users at 250 GB per month. Anyone going over that cap 
> >>> (NetFlix users, for instance), will be socked with overage fees.
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Exclusive-ATT-To-Impose-150GB-DSL-C
> ap-Overages-113149
> >>>
> >>> This is what you can expect if H.129 passes and broadband 
> >>> competition
> is
> >>> eliminated in North Carolina. You can COUNT on it!
> >
>
>
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