Are per usage caps simply an inevitable thing?

Wheezer

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DSL Reports

AT&T: Usage-Based Pricing 'Inevitable'
Company to begin testing such a system this fall
02:08PM Friday Jun 13 2008 by Karl


Last week new AT&T CTO John Donovan let loose that the company will begin testing "usage-based pricing" starting this Fall. "Traffic on our backbone is growing 60 percent per year, but our revenue is not," complained Donovan. Today AT&T spokesman Michael Coe tells The Street that usage-based pricing is "inevitable." "Usage-based pricing is one way to deal fairly with Internet usage, which is very uneven among broadband users," says Coe. It's also a handy way to deal with Internet-delivery video providers who might compete with AT&T's U-Verse TV service.

 

erub

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Is it really only BT people? I love my AT&T based Slingbox..damn...

If you follow the double link in that article, it says that they are in the process of deploying fiber optics to all subscribers (ala FIOS), something I hadn't heard before. I thought that U-Verse FTTN was as good as it was going to get for me..maybe not (of course it'll probably be another 7 years like the DSL to U-Verse switch)

For wired internet access, Donovan boasted of a recently-upgrade backbone that's now capable of 40 Mbps, and stated that the company is in the process of deploying fiber optic networks to people's homes, starting with all new housing developments.