AT&T has lost their minds

[Starz26]

Why would they put a cap on the users of UVerse? I mean all movies on demand are set via the internet right on uverse? Will that count as data as well. As I understand it the saved shows from your DVR is stored remotly as well.

While i understand in theory what they want to do, I would also like to see the numbers. I find it hard to believe the 2% of the customers are slowing down the system in any way. IF cost is an issue, the other 98% would be recovering the cost of the power users.....

Curious as to what the real motivation is here...seems to me they just want to make more money in any way they can...

Still not as bad as Verizon, having an unlimited plan but saying in fine print cap was at 5gb. Then they took it down to 3gb for a cheaper monthly fee and charged overages at outrageous rates. something like .10 per meganyte or thats $100.00 a gigabyte....

Voise no longer makes money, txt's bring in a lot of dough, but not so much now that you can get unlimited...Phones are locked so you have to by vz apps from their store, now they are going for the money hole in data....

Rather than nit pick fees, provide a great device / service that allows the owner of the device to do what they want with it. Create a great experience. ever been toa VZ store lately, horrible experience. Make the VZ brand and store a place peope want to go, a place that has innovating tech things...That will bring in more money than nickel and diming everyone which untimatly looses customers....

Sorry for the typos and rambling, tired and off to bed....

[Brutus2600]

Originally Posted by Starz26

Why would they put a cap on the users of UVerse? I mean all movies on demand are set via the internet right on uverse? Will that count as data as well. As I understand it the saved shows from your DVR is stored remotly as well.

While i understand in theory what they want to do, I would also like to see the numbers. I find it hard to believe the 2% of the customers are slowing down the system in any way. IF cost is an issue, the other 98% would be recovering the cost of the power users.....

Curious as to what the real motivation is here...seems to me they just want to make more money in any way they can...

I don't think that UVerse would count the TV. Yes, it all comes over the same line, but it's different. I think they're just talking data usage.

Also, as nice as remote DVR would be, that's not the case either. The main receiver has a hard drive in it and the other boxes in your house stream from that box, so it's all local. That also means if that box dies, all your shows are gone.

So anyway, yeah, more than likely just data, but it's still f*cked up.

If there was ANY other choice in my area I'd switch in an instant. Unfortunately that's not the case

[Starz26]

Originally Posted by Brutus2600

I don't think that UVerse would count the TV.

Also, as nice as remote DVR would be, that's not the case either. The main receiver has a hard drive in it and the other boxes in your house stream from that box, so it's all local. That also means if that box dies, all your shows are gone.

Thanks for clearing that up. I know TWC uses remote DVR storage and I assumed ATT did as well....

[tedrodgerscpa]

Wow.

I guess I understand the cap on wireless a little bit better, but this seems a bit of an extreme move.

Why not just "fire" those users who cheat the system (a la creating their own ISP, for instance)

I do hope the rest of the providers don't follow suit. I love teh internets.

[neoflex]

Wow, to think I was just thinking about taking a look at U-Verse but not now. I work out of my home and am constantly uploading files to ftps around the country and outside of the country so I would more than likely have an issue with them. I have heard rumblings of cell providers charging by tiers on data usage on their 4G networks but this is downright ridiculous. Hopefully enough people abandon ship with Uverse so the other providers don't get any ideas to follow suite.