Comments on: No meter? No problem. AT&T is still happy to charge you http://gigaom.com/2012/07/06/no-meter-no-problem-att-is-still-happy-to-charge-you/ Wed, 22 May 2013 01:46:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kevin Fitchard http://gigaom.com/2012/07/06/no-meter-no-problem-att-is-still-happy-to-charge-you/#comment-863667 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:17:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=540285#comment-863667 On the wireless side AT&T also provides a meter you can check to see how much you have consumed. The point is AT&T implemented a policy that restricts how much you can consume and then doesn’t give you a way to track how much you consume (which it can clearly do itself).

]]> By: Mike http://gigaom.com/2012/07/06/no-meter-no-problem-att-is-still-happy-to-charge-you/#comment-862683 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:07:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=540285#comment-862683 no, it’s a 250 GB cap, not 250 mb…satellite internet’s have a fair usages policy that caps at 250 MB’s, then throttles down your speed, ATT has a 250 GB cap, then charges you for overages…

]]> By: Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2012/07/06/no-meter-no-problem-att-is-still-happy-to-charge-you/#comment-862234 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:49:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=540285#comment-862234 AT&T’s spokesman and the statement above.

]]> By: Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2012/07/06/no-meter-no-problem-att-is-still-happy-to-charge-you/#comment-862233 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:46:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=540285#comment-862233 I don’t know about AT&T, but Time Warner has a third-party audit their meters to make sure they are accurate.

]]> By: Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2012/07/06/no-meter-no-problem-att-is-still-happy-to-charge-you/#comment-862232 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:45:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=540285#comment-862232 Thanks, Joe.

]]> By: Bugzz http://gigaom.com/2012/07/06/no-meter-no-problem-att-is-still-happy-to-charge-you/#comment-862161 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:55:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=540285#comment-862161 you mean 250MB cap and not 250GB…

]]> By: Jim Lorts http://gigaom.com/2012/07/06/no-meter-no-problem-att-is-still-happy-to-charge-you/#comment-862143 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:01:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=540285#comment-862143 Thanks for the information on your account. I attempted to access my usage that would count against my “CAP”. I supposedly have a 250 GB cap in place. This is what AT&T supplies me.
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Note: Your usage is not yet available for display. You should not be concerned about your usage for billing purposes. AT&T will keep you informed about your data usage via email.

To learn more about how to manage your usage, please visit http://www.att.com/internet-usage.
Thus they do not offer a means for me to review my usage nor do they provide the figures. We are a three person household with tablets TVs PCS and phones uisng our ISP provider yet cannot be supplied with a means to determine usage yet are subject to an overage if we exceed their CAP. Time for Big Brother to rectify this situation by measuring and certifying the method AT&T employs to determine our usage and to provide the consumer with usable tools and/or dae so support the effective management of internat usage. Maybe its just the fact that I can dump U-Verse and go with Comcast(shudder) that they haven’t employed a means to measure usage or they can’t accurately measure usage.

]]> By: Jaque Bauer http://gigaom.com/2012/07/06/no-meter-no-problem-att-is-still-happy-to-charge-you/#comment-861785 Sun, 08 Jul 2012 11:55:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=540285#comment-861785 I am a captive ATT DSL Extreme user that has paid fines almost every month since they began their cap on usage. I would raising hell with local and state agencies but my Wife is a 30 year ATT employee and she is afraid of retributions. Their usage meters are not believeable but how can you fight them ? Their legaleze traps you into company sponsered arbitration as part of the terms of service-which is a farce for those willing to take them on in court. ATT is monster criminal guilty of interstate fraud and conspiracy and have lied to the world in their reason for their limits. So we the consumer are screwed once again by the giants who own the lawmakers.

]]> By: internoob http://gigaom.com/2012/07/06/no-meter-no-problem-att-is-still-happy-to-charge-you/#comment-861678 Sun, 08 Jul 2012 01:32:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=540285#comment-861678 Just use this: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools/Bandwidth-Tools/NetMeter.shtml . I use it even though I have no bandwith caps.

]]> By: jdkarns http://gigaom.com/2012/07/06/no-meter-no-problem-att-is-still-happy-to-charge-you/#comment-861661 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 23:50:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=540285#comment-861661 This whole data cap thing is outrageous. It is this kind of capitalism that ruins it for all of us.

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