Get Ready for Higher Bills from AT&T
Everybody’s favorite monolith, AT&T, has hinted that they are ready to go down the slippery slope of “Usage Based” billing.
Basically, with your high speed if you use more then what is viewed as your fair share - AT&T will charge you more.
“When AT&T provides broadband service by speed, it will do so in discrete, non-overlapping tiers,” Quinn said in written testimony. “We will strive to provide service within the speed tier purchased by the customer and, if we find that we are not providing service within the ordered speed tier, AT&T will take action either to bring the customer’s service within the ordered tier or give the customer an option to move to a different tier.” [...] n this case AT&T appears to be softly selling the idea of usage-based pricing, which the company last month proclaimed was “inevitable.” Quinn appeared to show his hand when he stated the new system would “clearly identify any limitations on the amount of usage that may apply to a customer’s service plan.”
Nice, hopefully AT&T with this experiment will find far more customer resistance and defection then anticipated and abandon the effort.
