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AT&T Moves Closer To Usage-Based Fees For Data
CWmike writes "AT&T has moved closer to charging special usage fees to heavy data users, including those with iPhones and other smartphones. Ralph de la Vega, CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, came close on Wednesday to warning about some kind of use-based pricing while speaking at a UBS conference. 'The first thing we need to do is educate customers about what represents a megabyte of data and...we're improving systems to give them real-time information about their data usage,' he said. 'Longer term, there's got to be some sort of pricing scheme that addresses the [heavy] users.' AT&T has found that only 3% of its smartphone users — primarily iPhone owners — are responsible for 40% of total data usage, largely for video and audio, de la Vega said. Educating that group about how much they are using could change that, as AT&T has found by informing wired Internet customers of such patterns. De la Vega's comments on data use were previewed in a keynote he gave in October at the CTIA, but he went beyond those comments on Wednesday: 'We are going to make sure incentives are in place to reduce or modify [data]uses so they don't crowd out others in the same cell sites.' Focus groups have been formed at AT&T to figure out how to proceed."
say what you want and let other people do it too.
It's not just words. Where have you been?
I am fine with you saying what you want to say. I'm even fine with you saying I live in an insular world. But I'm not fine with certain double standards - like being called "white" and not being able to say "black" and things like that.
And, of course, we could get into Christmas celebrations and all that. I don't have a problem with celebrating - even in *gasp* public schools - "Christian" holidays while not celebrating every other religion's "winter-ish" holiday. That is what comes from being in a country that has a predominant culture. If that changes, fine... but forcing it to change from the top down seems strange, to me...
I agree. I think there are a lot of problems. I think it likely starts with the American people who appear to care more about Tiger Woods' recent scandal than their country. The country isn't going to run itself, and smart/honest/nice people aren't going to get elected by default if no one does anything. If that were the case, anarchy would probably work :P
Next at the chopping block, in my book, are dishonest politicians, no matter what party they are affiliated with.
No, Cromar has it on the money. Black is not a bad word, its the context you use Black in that can be offensive. What I find hilarious about these anti-PC folks is that they want to be able to say what they want, but when people call them out for being a fuckhead, suddenly its censorship. "Well I don't find offensive what you find offensive, so your arguments are invalid!" Give me a fuckin' break.
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The African-American shit was just some semantic shit to try and stem the screwiness of racism. Pretty much none of those words work.
Homosexuality is not a religion, Christianity is. You're comparing apples and oranges, just to be an asshole. Kids learn about Christianity in history class with the rest of the major religions and some of the dead ones, as it should be. If you want homosexuality to be treated as a religion, propose an amendment to the constitution.
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