AT&T Caps Netflix Streaming Costs At $68K/Yr

theodp writes "What would you say if you went to join a gym and were told that it could cost you anywhere from $360 a year to $68,000 a year for the exact same usage? Don't be ridiculous, right? Well, that's really not so different from what the potential costs of streaming video on an AT&T smartphone are. According to AT&T's Data Usage Calculator, 1,440 minutes worth of streaming video consumes 2.81GB, which — if you manage to keep Netflix fired up all day and night — would result in a $360 annual bill under the grandfathered $30-monthly-unlimited-data plan, or $68,376 under the new $20-monthly-300MB plan. Still, that didn't stop a spokesman from characterizing the new AT&T data plans as 'a great value' for customers."

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Re:So when did...

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I know you love to tout your atheism like this guy brags about not having a TV, but injecting your belief into a discussion of rights only opens us to the dangerous question of, "if rights don't come from a god, then who do they come from?" The proper answer is that they are still self-evident, and thus aren't subject to the whims of men, but the claim of the despot and his lackeys is that they, of course, come from them.

The only reason AT&T can make up any price and get away with it, is because THERE IS NO COMPETITION

I do own a TV, so I'm subject to incessant commercials from Sprint touting their unlimited plan.