AT&T has announced revisions to their data throttling policy today, making the terms less vague.
Until today, AT&T would only say that the "top 5%" of unlimited plan bandwidth hogs were being throttled once they reached a certain point. That number was never stated, either, but most reports had it at around 2GB per month.
Now, the rules are set in stone. If you are using a 4G LTE ... [ read the full article ]
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Again, AT&T (as well as all other cellular services) are getting into the entertainment game! You know your fancy little tablets!?! I don't know if most of you folks have a digital (cellular) service with that thing or not, but that's the same thing & it will get hit with the same throttling soon enough if you don't start paying attention.
Video & music streaming As well as this damned 'cloud' interfacing crap is just another means by which tapping the data stream is going to increase the consumers need for tapping the data stream even more & they all know it. Meaning: Now is the time to maximize every ounce of high dollar fleecing they can get before FCC sanctions "forces" the whole lot of them to upgrade their equipment & data packages to accommodate the public.
It's just like they've done for radio & TV throughout the years. We could have had FM stereo back in the 40s & HD TV back in the 80s, but it was all greed that kept the change from happening.
But you can all choose to ignore my ramblings (again) & chalk it up to the OFB as ranting & off his meds again too.
