You’ve probably seen the news and all the virtual hand-wrangling which obviously followed the leaked (or not) announcement of AT&T’s planned data cap on Internet access. I caught wind at work from a co-worker who just bought a house.
Just when we were enjoying our recent but troublesome upgrade, my ISP decides to pull a dick move. Well, I’m going to let them know tonight while dropping off the TV receiver we don’t need and to modify our bill for the landline we’re not using.
If they can prove our usage isn’t in the two percent they’re claiming (so far, their Web site is a bust), then fine. I remain skeptical though since an average 90-minute film can easily run several GigaBytes. It’s just the latest demonstration of naked aggression against companies (aka Netflix, Google) who have beat them at their own game. The big ISPs’ broadband is almost 90 percent raw profit and other formulas have shown that it’s only costing them five cent a GB moved along their networks.
In short, please don’t be surprised if I have to move my site again this Summer should I need to fire AT&T as my ISP. They might back off as Time Warner did who then may gain AT&T’s former customers. Not me though. I’ll probably wait for Google’s vaporware network to show up and make do with other hotspots.