Commentüs on: AT&T Considering Metered Broadband

By: Vectorpedia

Vectorpedia — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:41:29 +0000

I am in favor of metered/usage based price structuring………..this should be good for the user and the industry.

By: Allyn Onderdonk

Allyn Onderdonk — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:04:14 +0000

There is no problem with speeds for any reason. There are new cheap technologies that will make local and internet backbones jump in speed a hundred fold. The carriers are greedy bastards that are creating monopolies. We all need to start screaming “antitrust” and ousting the bad people in Congress that just take money from special interests and squash the common man. Those individuals greenlighting said mergers are a joke. I hope that one day they will be held accountable. For instance, the only two satellite radio companies on the planet are allowed to merge and not be called a monopoly. Those crooked people. I will cancel any internet connection with any company that starts metering and all my other services too. I have 10 At&T lines w\dsl and 2 Charter internet. I’ll cancel Charter if I start getting advertising popupsas they want to happen. The people need to start their own independent carrier that we can all invest in only for our own use, and not for profit.

By: AT&T, Time Warner Cable Up The Metered Internet Ante - GigaOM

AT&T, Time Warner Cable Up The Metered Internet Ante - GigaOM — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:06:59 +0000

[...] Malik, Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 6:01 AM PT Comments (0) Time Warner Cable and AT&T are busy trying to force their vision of the metered Internet on the consumers, taking small but vital [...]

By: Why Metered Broadband Is Bad for Microsoft, Google & Us - GigaOM

Why Metered Broadband Is Bad for Microsoft, Google & Us - GigaOM — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:30:54 +0000

[...] the usage-based pricing plans (starting at 5 gigabytes) being considered by AT&T, Time Warner and others will force us all to wonder about the size of our connectivity bill on a [...]

By: Bandwidth Barons Want More Money for Fewer Bytes - GigaOM

Bandwidth Barons Want More Money for Fewer Bytes - GigaOM — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:36:17 +0000

[...] Leinwand, Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 9:36 AM PT Comments (0) According to AT&T, Time Warner and others, usage-based pricing is coming to your Internet connection. While the [...]

By: Bandwidth Barons Want More Money for Fewer Bytes - GigaOM

Bandwidth Barons Want More Money for Fewer Bytes - GigaOM — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:36:17 +0000

[...] Leinwand, Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 9:36 AM PT Comments (0) According to AT&T, Time Warner and others, usage-based pricing is coming to your Internet connection. While the [...]

By: Brian Kirk

Brian Kirk — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:14:42 +0000

In late 2000, we (NetworkIP) developed & deployed a suite of prepaid Internet services. Our research showed us that there was a large market that would benefit from only paying for the bandwidth consumed. Despite this fact, we quickly discovered that the market would rather pay for an unlimited amount of bandwidth at a fixed price regardless if they consumed a lot or a little bandwidth. Consumers would rather know what it’s going to cost them each month for Internet rather than being afraid to use their service because it could result in a high bill at the end of the month.

By: Noop

Noop — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:58:06 +0000

The reason everyone here desire more ‘free’ this and ‘free’ that is because I’d bet my career that the majority demographic here is the nearly is from the current narcisissitic generation.

Do you think that is air that you are breathing? Live in realtity. These services require a buisness model.

Noop

By: DailyWireless » Blog Archive » Friday Links: Metered Broadband, Free Wi-Fi

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:21:52 +0000

[...] File this one until Oh-God-No. AT&T is considering a switch to metered broadband. I rue the day . . . Read it on Gigaom. [...]

By: Worried About Wi-Fi in Santa Fe - GigaOM

Worried About Wi-Fi in Santa Fe - GigaOM — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:27:57 +0000

[...] Higginbotham, Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 3:27 PM PT Comments (0) I would think that worries of tiered broadband pricing might be putting the kibosh on free public Wi-Fi, but there’s another culprit causing the [...]

By: AT&T Broadband Updates « Media Experiences 2 Go

AT&T Broadband Updates « Media Experiences 2 Go — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:32:43 +0000

[...] bundles if Internet caps vary widely from provider to provider? It seems likely. And since a lot of the big folks are considering caps and meters, we’ll likely find out for [...]

By: Timothy Daniels

Timothy Daniels — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:04:04 +0000

The marketing model for years has been to tout the download speed of the Internet connection with the understanding that the service was unlimited.

Now that consumers have found ways to actually use what was offered the providers are whining about it.

What they did of course was assume that they could get away with building less infrastructure than was necessary to actually support the simultaneous use of the promised download speeds by any significant precentage of customers in a given area. Does anyone remember busy signals when trying to access the Internet by dial-up? This is the same scenario.

It is time for the providers to stop deceiving the consumers. Rather than offer “unlimited” access at speeds they can’t actually support, I’d prefer that they provide guaranteed speeds that I can use 24×7 if I want. For example 512kbps, 1mbps, 2mbps etc. I’d know what I was getting and I wouldn’t have to worry about exceeding any quotas.

I don’t have a problem paying my fair share as I use every available bit of my bandwidth on a 24×7 basis. Most internet users really don’t need much more than 512kbps-1mbps speed. Why should they pay the same as me?

Set lower prices for lower speed accounts and higher prices for fatter pipes. This has been the business model for most commercial internet access for years.

Metering usage and charging for overages will cause billing complexity and headaches for users who already have a hard time figuring out how many minutes they have left on their cell phones this billing cycle.

Metering usage will also stifle innovation. People are just beginning to realize they can access home web cams from work to keep an eye on the kids, share their family photos with relatives from a home server or download rental movies rather than driving to the store.

By: p2p Capital Group » The End of Unlimited Bandwidth

p2p Capital Group » The End of Unlimited Bandwidth — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:53:11 +0000

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By: » Metered Internet, Another Domino Falls: AT&T » DragonFlyEye.Net

» Metered Internet, Another Domino Falls: AT&T » DragonFlyEye.Net — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:46:43 +0000

[...] AT&T Considering Metered Broadband - GigaOM Bend Broadband, Comcast, Time Warner Cable — they’re all considering or going the route of the tiered (aka metered) broadband. Now add AT&T to that list, according to a report in CED magazine. [...]

By: tom

tom — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:23:10 +0000

i worry that this will result in the turning off of nearly all the small hotspots in coffee shops, etc. while starbuck use t-mobile; everyplace that i go for free WiFi is using a router on top of cable or DSL. i just do not see that continuing without unlimited plans. also this could mean the end to neighbors sharing connection with each other.

By: TheReviewr

TheReviewr — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:01:56 +0000

This is a sign of LACK of COMPETITION in the US broadband market. If you have only 2 players in a market, collusion is sure to happen.

If telcos in US go this path, and they set unreasonable caps just to increase price, they will be a heavy burden to innovation in US.

Note that Moore’s law has also applied to broadband in recent years. e.g. Telefonica’s offering in Madrid was:
2003: 256 Kbps
2004: 512 Kbps
2005: 1 Mbps
…
2008: 10 Mbps
Do the maths…
In true competitive markets, expect the laws of accelerating returns to apply. In non competitive market, be at the will of the oligopoly…

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