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From: David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ip [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IP] ATT Monthly Bandwidth Caps Are Here
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:26:31 -0500
http://gizmodo.com/5075831/att-monthly-bandwidth-caps-are-here
ATT's bandwidth caps for its high speed internet
The term sabotage is unduly pejorative and inflammatory, as well
as simply inaccurate. In all cases, the goal is simply to lower
costs to consumers by preventing them from consuming more bandwidth
than they pay for (and thus causing the provider to lose money).
Absent such constraints, the
Lauren Weinstein wrote:
[ Of course, caps carry a definite profit center bonus as
compared with throttling, at least when subscribers are being
charged extra for exceeding the caps (and especially when those
caps are relatively low). That is, a circuit that is throttled
but
