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AT&T Caps Are A Giant Con And An Attack On Cord-Cutters (dslreports.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the back-in-the-good-old-days dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Following a report from DSLReports that ATT would be imposing usage caps on the company's U-Verse broadband customers, ATT has announced it would now be following Comcast's lead by "allowing" users to pay $30 more a month if they wanted to avoid usage caps entirely. However, ATT has taken it to a new level by "allowing" users to graciously avoid the $30 fee -- if they subscribe to DirecTV or U-Verse TV service. These data caps allow ISPs like ATT and Comcast to cash in on internet video and make cord-cutting less viable by making streaming more expensive. And now, ATT is using caps to force users to subscribe to traditional TV if they want their broadband connection to work like it used to.

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  1. FUCK AT-ATs. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everyone hates them. Go in with snowspeeders and trip the ten-storey bastards.

  2. Re:FUCK ATT. by Immerman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not so much for politics. It's a rare politician who actually gives a damn if they get *any* contributions from the proletariat - to raise enough to matter for anything other than talking points you pretty much have to at least claim to turn your back on the few thousand people who contribute *real* money. And so long as we keep voting for those treasonous bastards for fear of someone even worse taking office the problem will only get worse.

    The people hate the lizards, and the lizards rule the people. And everybody votes for them because if they didn't then the wrong lizard might win.

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    --- Most topics have many sides worth arguing, allow me to take one opposite you.
  3. Re:May 23 is the date by youngone · · Score: 3, Funny
    So? What's your problem?

    All you people here moaning about expensive, slow crappy Internet from your monopoly provider haven't stopped to look at it from AT&T's point of view.

    You know those huge subsidies they got? You know all those legal concessions they needed to prevent cities from creating publicly owned ISP's?

    Do you really think all the money they needed to bribe politicians just came out of thin air?

    You really do have the government you deserve, and it was sold years ago, to the likes of AT&T.