Moving away from uncapped mobile broadband

[rpm]

Backtracking on uncapped mobile broadband

In South Africa uncapped broadband is just taking off, but internationally the inverse is taking place

 

[Kkkurupt]

I think i need to relocate to the states

 

[Jagtiger]

Looks like they found some solution for "piracy" (or trying to). Word of power: cap.

I think i need to relocate to the states

Or Japan.

 

[acidb]

Looks like they found some solution for "piracy" (or trying to). Word of power: cap.

Or Japan.

Nah, Japan's expensive to live, South Korea maybe...

 

[extremist]

AT&T is taking it's customers for a ride.

$15 for 200MB and $15 for every 200MB thereafter, or $25 for 2GB and $10 for every 1GB thereafter? Maybe the bandwidth-spoiled Yankeestanians need to have the term "cross-subsidation" explained to them.

 

[kevinswan007]

Backtracking on uncapped mobile broadband

In South Africa uncapped broadband is just taking off, but internationally the inverse is taking place

links, or this news article is a lie!!

 

[kevinswan007]

http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/cablevision-loves-you-will-offer-99-101mbps-uncapped-internet/

looks like the East Coast's Cablevision's decided to play things a little differently than Comcast and Time Warner: it's just announced that uncapped 101Mbps DOCSIS 3.0 service will be rolling out on May 11 across its entire service area. The best part? It'll cost $99 a month, making it faster and cheaper than any other high-speed package we can think of

I googled USA ISP's and cant find anything related to 'caps'

 

[DarkStreet]

links, or this news article is a lie!!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...3014134754.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_business
http://www.comcast.net/terms/network/amendment/

Next time you might want to make use of Google yourself (and do it right). It's pretty easy: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=comcast+aup+250+gb and http://lmgtfy.com/?q=at&t

 

[ragingbull1958]

If this report is indeed true and not a propaganda campaign then it is quite easy. The people who are with AT&T need to give them the boot and move over to Comcast - 250Gbs isn't to shabby at all.

 

[Tacet]

http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/cablevision-loves-you-will-offer-99-101mbps-uncapped-internet/


I googled USA ISP's and cant find anything related to 'caps'

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=134479

Maybe this will help. :-?

links, or this news article is a lie!!

MyBB's articles try not to lie too much.

http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/devices/ipad.jsp?wtSlotClick=1-00398S-0-1&WT.svl=calltoaction

The article is about AT&T. Is it that difficult to look on their website!?

 

[kevinswan007]

thank you.
thats what should have been supplied from the beginning.

 

[DarkStreet]

thank you.
thats what should have been supplied from the beginning.

Um, not really. Do you see newspapers citing links as a source of any stories?

 

[biometrics]

Isn't this specific to the iPad?

 

[hammell]

What a load of rubbish... Watch what happens when ISPs start capping people overseas - guess what, people will move to truly uncapped ISPs.

 

[Blaze786]

Lets hope this is not justification for SA going back to capped solutions :O

 

[AnimateX]

$75 for a Gigabyte of mobile data? Holy crap, that seems ridiculously overpriced even by South African standards. I'll bet that AT&T's new plans have more to do with greed than with high bandwidth demand, after all that is about 300 times more expensive per-gig than a much faster wired connection from Comcast.

Bet most subscribers will go for the DataPro plan instead at $10 a gig, only 50 times more expensive than cable.

 

[grok]

Lets hope this is not justification for SA going back to capped solutions :O

We haven't even touched proper uncapped yet with the shaping and all.

 

[Mike43110]

Uhm, from how I understood the engadget article this is only for smartphones, dumbphones still get unlimited data

 

[ruan567]

We haven't even touched proper uncapped yet with the shaping and all.

That's what I am thinking as well, come on 'staff writer' we're just making headway here in SA and now you are giving the big companies other ideas again...

 

[supersunbird]

We haven't even touched proper uncapped yet with the shaping and all.

You can touch uncapped if you buy a unshaped uncapped account, but just don't touch me on my studio.