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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAT&T Follows Comcast, Will Charge $30 More to Avoid Usage Caps
Users who exceed these caps in any given month will automatically have to pay for 50 GB of additional data for $10 each. Users who want to avoid the cap will now need to pay $30 a month more moving forward. That is unless you're also a DirecTV or AT&T U-Verse TV customer, in which case AT&T is waiving the $30 fee.
That last bit is a fairly transparent ploy to address a spike in cord cutting t AT&T -- by forcing customers into signing up for television services they may not actually want if they want to avoid usage restrictions. Whether using arbitrary caps to force users to sign up for TV technically violates net neutrality (either the FCC's rules or the concept in general) is something that's likely to be hotly debated.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Vampire companies suck.
Ex Lurker
(3,807 posts)using 250GB
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Every month the bill would go up from 50 cents to a dollar for some new fee they came up with.
6 years ago I was paying $50 and change for landline phone and DSL. When I cancelled it was up to $94+ for the exact same service-no increase in speed or extras. Then the bastards bought out DirecTV and started the same monthly new fee charges.
One time they tried charging me a subscriber line charge for the phone, another line charge for the DSL, and a third line charge for the privilege of dialing out long distance. THREE different line charges for the same pair of wires.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Within five years they will declare bankruptcy anyway. These fools did the same type of customer gauging in the late nineties and people did work a rounds and ATT&T had to do a bankruptcy. To darn many new things coming to market and these people live in the stone age when it comes to technology.