Telecommunication companies continue capping data usage on broadband. AT&T is the latest internet provider limiting the amount of data users are allowed per month. AT&T set the mark at 150 GB a month with $1 charged, per GB over the cap; slowest DSL plans will be capped at 20 GB. AT&T is following the lead of Comcast enforcing 250 GB limits.
Issues are immediately raised; such as applications that use the internet (aka, video games, file sharing), downloading security (required) updates, a meter to monitor the usage at any given time, flexibility to adjust caps when internet applications exponentially grow faster than their static HTML-driven predecessors not even five years ago.
In a recent Zeugma Systems survey, 81 percent of 787 U.S. Customers hate the idea of a cap, including the soaking charges of over-usage. Likely driven by a bad economy and multi-billion dollar companies milking their customers to keep their revenue at steady levels. Time Warner recently removed their newsgroup services (basically the predecessor of discussion boards, forums and even file sharing services) and initiated a test of internet caps in Beaumont, Texas; which ranges between 5 to 40 GB monthly.
Companies are pushing an arbitrary, BS, "mythical 5 percent of broadband subscribers that use 90 percent of available bandwidth" which has some suspecting of additional tiers for significantly higher caps forcing users/companies to double the cost to have these services.
In truth, anything over 150 GB is a ton for the average user. However, several things do not necessarily add to the benefit of the average user; which is in turn consistent that average Joe is Poorman Moe.
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