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

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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[gstoddart]

So, do you live in a place where another company is free to run a sewer line to your house so you can subscribe to their service?

Or do you think maybe the final infrastructure which comes into peoples houses shouldn't be the property of a corporation?

It's time to stop pretending that infrastructure which we've paid for, and which has rights of way on public and private property should be treated as the exclusive property of some asshole corporation like AT&T.

That's just idiotically subsidizing AT&T to remain a monopoly, while saying if people don't want monopolies they can build their own infrastructure.

Like the water, sewer, and electricity coming into your home ... the network needs to be considered part of the municipal infrastructure.