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AT&T Should Be Investigated For 'Fraudulent' Data Policies, Says PK
zacharye writes "AT&T on Monday announced a new plan that will let developers pay for the data used by their apps and services. The data consumed by apps that make use of this new feature would not apply toward a user's data cap. The new service was pitched as a way for content providers to ease customers' growing concerns over wireless data usage, however one public interest group sees the feature as a slap in the face to AT&T subscribers. 'This new plan is unfortunate because it shows how fraudulent the AT&T data cap is, and calls into question the whole rationale of the data caps,' Harold Feld, legal director of Public Knowledge, said in a statement. 'Apparently it has nothing to do with network management. It's a tool to get more revenue from developers and customers.'"
"So for any given app you can either bill the dev a little bit, per installation or per use, or you can eat into the user's data plan."
The point is that AT&T said that the bandwidth was the scarce resource in their network and that caps were necessary to conserve that resource.
But as soon as a new revenue source was available, then the network was magically unconstrained. This is not "good idea", unless you're an AT&T shareholder, and then its magically a fantastic idea.
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
No, he's a stuttering clusterfuck of trying to negotiate with domestic terrorists (the GOP).
Collusion a free market does not make.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2012: "The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012 was signed into United States law on December 31, 2011 by President Barack Obama... In a signing statement, President Obama described the Act as addressing national security programs, Department of Defense health care costs, counter-terrorism within the U.S. and abroad, and military modernization.[" He endorsed this little gem.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'