Saw on Toms Hardware that AT&T is capping people at 150G/mo of data and Comcast is dropping users who regularly use over 250G/mo.
Evidently AT&T says a 'average user' uses about 15G/mo. But that doesn't add up, because a typical Netflix customer uses about 2G/hour and watches 20 movies a month (say 30 to 40 hours which is 45 to 80G). According to the article, AT&T plans on allowing to purchase more bandwidth at $10/50G/mo (I have Exede, and it is $50 for 10G, or $80 for 15G, and for either extra data for $10/1G. After hitting cap at 12Mdown 3Mup, it drops to about 96kb 'for free' for the rest of the plan month.) (BTW, Exede has a 'free' period from midnight to 5AM daily that does not count against your data plan. It helps ensure I get at least some offsite backup done automatically daily. This period works even if you have exceeded your paid for data limit.) Still outlandish. ... None of us have the nickles to purchase a commanding share of any of the big players so we can bring down cost and/or increase service. ... So we do the best we can and pay out whatever orifice you can. I have changed my life to live in a 15G/mo arrangement. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
