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Internet Metering Is Inevitable Says AT&T


June 16th, 2008 · No Comments

The largest Internet Service Provider in the United States has announced that it believes Internet Metering is something that is eventually inevitable.

New York City - The largest Internet Service Provider in the United States has announced that it believes Internet Metering is something that is eventually inevitable.

AT&T is the largest of the different Internet Service Providers in the United States, and it views the plan that Time Warner Cable and Comcast have imposed on their users as inevitable.

Comcast and Time Warner are imposing different types of data throttling and data capping online metering because they feel that some users of the Internet are using more than their share and they make the Internet unstable, and unbalanced.

The majority of the ISP account holders on most online Internet Service Providers use the Internet to access their e-mail or browse the web.

Other users pay the same amount but use massive amounts of bandwidth for online gaming or huge multimedia downloads.

Such type of use is provided at the same rate as the users who use very little web bandwidth, and AT&T and other Internet Service providers have been forthright in announcing that the day of Internet Metering is at hand.

Imposing limitations on the heaviest users is an inevitable reaction because otherwise the rates on everyone will rise, and this is not fair for the users of e-mail and other light bandwidth uses.

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