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AT&T Begins 20-150GB Data Cap Trials in Reno, NV

By soulxtc

New DSL customers face caps from 20-150GB p/mo, existing customers will later join the trial automatically if they exceed 150GB p/mo, with overage fees pegged at $1 USD p/GB. After the FCC determined that Comcast violated the agency's principles by throttling BitTorrent in order to ease network traffic congestion, ISPs around the country began testing out new methods of doing so that didn't "selectively target and interfere with connections of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications" and data caps have become the most popular tool for deployment in their efforts. Comcast and Time Warner have both rolled out monthly data usage limits and now it appears that AT&T is following their lead with an announced trial for the city of Reno, NV. From an FCC filing: As AT&T has previously explained, a small minority of our broadband Internet access customers consume a disproportionately large amount of the total bandwidth available to all of the customers on our network. In order to ensure that we can continue to equitably provide affordable broadband services to all of our customers, we are exploring potential changes to the manner in which we offer and charge for those services.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on November 04, 2008 (boomark / email).