AT&T Web Customers Face Data Cap

March 14, 2011 at 2:35 am PT

AT&T Inc. said Sunday that it will begin to cap DSL data usage for its Internet customers and implement charges for anyone who goes over the limit.

The Dallas telecommunications company said that customers who exceed a monthly limit of 150 gigabytes of data in three separate months will be charged $10 for every extra 50 gigabytes of data they consume. Customers on AT&T’s higher-end U-Verse Internet service have a limit of 250 gigabytes. AT&T will impose the new limits on May 2.

Read the rest of this post on the original site »

Tagged with: cap, customers, data, digital, DSL, frontpage, Internet, limits, telecom, U-verse

Must-Reads from other Websites

Why Apple Should Buy China’s Xiaomi

Panos Mourdoukoutas, Contributor, Forbes

What I Didn’t Say

Paul Graham, Founder, ViaWeb

We Need to Talk About TED

Benjamin Bratton, Journalist, The Guardian

I, Glasshole: My Year With Google Glass

Mat Honan, Senior Writer, Wired

All Together Now

Chris Ware, Writer, The New Yorker

The Sculpture on the Moon

Corey S. Powell and Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Contributors, Slate

About Voices

Along with original content and posts from across the Dow Jones network, this section of AllThingsD includes Must-Reads From Other Websites — pieces we’ve read, discussions we’ve followed, stuff we like. Six posts from external sites are included here each weekday, but we only run the headlines. We link to the original sites for the rest. These posts are explicitly labeled, so it’s clear that the content comes from other websites, and for clarity’s sake, all outside posts run against a pink background.

We also solicit original full-length posts and accept some unsolicited submissions.