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13 Dec 2010

Yeah… costly metering is what everybody wants. Thank you HP Exec.

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Tags: broadband, broadbandreports.com, Communication, Editorial, HP, Internet, internet access, ISP, media, metered billing, pricing, pricing shift, stupid executive, time warner cable, Weinman

Verizon: No Plan For Wireless Tiered Pricing… Yet

27 Jul 2010

Verizon: No Plan For Wireless Tiered Pricing (Yet) – Though it will likely happen after LTE launch…

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Tags: 4G, at&t, billing, broadbandreports.com, Engadget, later dates, LTE, metered billing, Networks, pricing, Rumors, screw your customers, tiered pricing, verizon, Verizon 4G, Verizon LTE, Verizon network

Canadian Broadband Caps? Meet Netflix Broadband Video.

22 Jul 2010

Canadian Broadband Caps? Meet Netflix Broadband Video – Netflix brings streaming-only video option to heavily-capped Canadians

AT&T Tries and Fails to Justify 3G Cap-Eating Microcell

21 Jun 2010

AT&T Tries and Fails to Justify 3G Cap-Eating Microcell – Should it count against the cap when no tower or backhaul’s involved?

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Tags: 3G, at&t, AT&T femtocell, broadband, broadbandreports.com, Computer, femtocell, how to screw over your customers, ISP, metered billing, microcell, Networks, screw your customers, unlimited data, VoIP, wi-fi, wifi

AT&T Kills the $30 Unlimited Data Plan – Replaces with 200MB, 2GB Capped Data Plans

2 Jun 2010

AT&T Kills the $30 Unlimited Data Plan – Replaces with 200MB, 2GB Capped Data Plans

Verizon Again Hints At New Pricing For LTE

27 May 2010

Verizon LTE (4G) might have a tiered pricing schedule after all. Ouch.

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Tags: 4G, broadband, broadbandreports.com, broadband_wireless, cellphones, ISP, LTE, metered billing, Networks, pricing, screwing your customer, tiered pricing, usage-based billing, verizon, Verizon 4G, Verizon network, Wireless

So, Is AT&T’s $30 iPad 3G Plan Truly Unlimited?

4 May 2010

Is the unlimited Apple iPad AT&T deal really unlimited? All fingers point to “no”.

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Tags: 3G, 3G iPad, 3G network, Apple, Apple iPad, Apple iPad 3G, at&t, broadbandreports.com, cellular data, Communication, Consumer Reports, data plan, dumb, Hardware, ISP, metered billing, network billing, Networks, unlimited data, who's lying?

AT&T Hints At New Wireless Pricing For Thousandth Time

23 Apr 2010

AT&T continues to hint at the fact they’d like some kind of pure per-byte billing model – which many people would be fine with.

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Tags: at&t, data plans, data pricing, data rates, fleecing customers, just say no, metered billing, more expensive, price hikes, pricing, pricing reform, smartphone, smartphones, subscribers, Wireless, wireless data

AT&T: We’ll Soon Be Charging You More For Wireless Broadband – Company wants ‘variable pricing,’ admits few will pay for iPad 3G

3 Mar 2010

AT&T is once again dropping hints that the carrier wants to change (read: increase) wireless data pricing. Many investors have been pressuring the company to ditch the $30 unlimited iPhone data plan and instead replace it with some kind of metered billing model.

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Tags: 3G, Apple iPad, Apple iPhone, at&t, carrier, data, data plans, GPRS, GSM, IM, investors, iPad, iPhone, losing money, make customers pay more, metered billing, network, plans, pricing, SMS, too expensive, voice, VoIP, wireless data pricing

Billing Companies Think Metered Billing “Inevitable”, Still a Hard Sell

10 Feb 2010

Fierce Wireless asks a number of vendors who make a living off of billing systems their thoughts on metered billing in the wireless space, and unsurprisingly is told by each one that a shift to metered billing is “inevitable” in wireless.

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Tags: broadbandreports.com, cell networks, Communication, Hardware, heavy users, ISP, metered billing, Networks, pricing, save money, subsidized, the hard sell, tiered pricing, we're screwed, Wireless

AT&T Also Raising DSL Prices In 2010…

7 Jan 2010

Judging from some leaked AT&T talking points posted to our forums, AT&T is getting ready to hit regular DSL customers with some price hikes as well.

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Tags: 2010, at&t, broadband, broadbandreports.com, costs too much, customer service, customers spending more, DSL, DSL price hike, DSL tiers, fail, internet access, ISP, lack of quality, metered billing, price hikes, raising prices, supply and demand, U-Verse, VoIP, VoIP offerings

Time Warner Cable To Change Name To… Who Knows Yet.

7 Jan 2010

An insider tells Dow Jones that Time Warner Cable has launched “Project Mercury” in an effort to rename itself sometime during 2010.

Telecom Lobbyists: U.S. Actually Broadband Leader – You Just Have to Completely Ignore All Data Suggesting Otherwise…

29 Dec 2009

What do you do when you’re a telecom industry trade group that wants the FCC to ignore the fact that U.S. consumers pay more money, for slower bandwidth, in fewer locations than more than a dozen other countries? You pick out a largely meaningless metric we actually are good at and blow it out of proportion.

Disproving The Concept Of The Bandwidth Hog – If the Legendary Beast is Real, Surely Data Will Prove It…

20 Dec 2009

Earlier this month an analyst for the Yankee Group and one of the primary developer’s of Amsterdam’s fiber to the home (and houseboat) network argued that the bandwidth hog didn’t exist, and was instead simply a concept used to disguise poorly designed networks and justify anti-consumer behavior.

AT&T: iPhone Data Pricing Comments ‘Taken Out Of Context’ – AT&T Simply Wants to “Educate” You

12 Dec 2009

iPhone users need to be educated exactly what a megabyte is, apparently. And the argument that an already hugely profitable company wants to charge even more money for bandwidth isn’t one that sits well with consumers.