AT&T Rolls Out DSL, U-Verse Bandwidth Caps
If you're an AT&T DSL and U-Verse customer, starting today you will need to be monitor just how much of the internet you're enjoying. No longer is your access to the information superhighway an all-you-can-eat affair.
Starting today, AT&T will implement a 150GB monthly usage cap for their DSL customers and a 250GB monthly usage cap for their U-verse users. Those exceeding the caps consistently will incur overage charges: $10 fee for every additional 50GB consumed beyond the associated cap.
Of course, AT&T will not enforce these caps without a way for customers to monitor their own usage. If you're with AT&T, hit up this My Usage link to see if your account is set up for tracking. If it says that it's under construction, then you're still free to download with reckless abandon!
This is absolutely wrong and will not change until you start writing letters. We need competition!
So? That just means they need MORE profits to keep the shareholders happy. And since no company is willing to compete on price anymore, every single ISP will be capped within 5 years, I gurantee it.
The U-verse data measurement report is currently under construction. When completed, you will be notified if your usage exceeds the allowance. Until that time, U-verse customers should not be concerned about their usage patterns for billing purposes.
To learn more about how to manage your usage, please visit www.att.com/internet-usage
Or, reduce the monthly subscription price significantly and introduce a cap with overage charges, so customers can opt to use less at a discounted price and those who choose to use quite a bit more suffer overage charges that roughly round out to the same average cost as before caps/overage charges were implemented. I could see that as a selling point whereas currently this approach they have acts more as a deterrent.
Comcast is different. Comcast has not implemented any overage charge policy. I've done the same as you as far as activity and was nearing 700-900gb each month and never heard a peep from Comcast. They have a monitor that shows your useage so I think for now Comcast has just gotten their feet wet, but hasn't jumped in the pool yet like AT&T is doing.