Will you guys fight ATT data cap?

I am still waiting for eruption of mass petitions, forums and even walk marches like it happened in Canada, when Bell imposed on 3rd party dsl resellers UBB and higher cost of leasing. The situation there with caps is even worse than in the US and has been there longer.

In the meantime the remedy is to switch to 3rd party dsl reseller like earthlink or dslextreme. But you must have an active phone line for them, you can't run them on dry loop.

Or if you have comcast, you could go with their business internet plans. They are slightly more expensive than residential and require contract, but you don't have hard 250GB cap.

Unfortunately most people don't even know what gigabyte is. And most won't notice it quickly.

What ATT is doing is "just the tip strategy". Start with a high cap which is barely noticeable for most regular users, and once we all are used to it get it lower and lower. Like in college romance with jocks where the pitchers promise catchers, should they find the end of "tip" "unsatisfactionary" in some way, "they can always pull out". But I am sure ATT has no intention of pulling out. They are going to plunge it into us to the hilt, and whisper gently into our ears about what good girls we are being for taking it so bravely!

In Canada, Telus is imposing extra charges in 50GB 'buckets'. They say people are only "paying for what they use", but people are having to pay that 50GB bucket cost for being over just one MB (an actual example from another commentor). Further, if you pay for that extra 50GB overage bucket, you don't get a credit to your account for the bandwidth that you_didn't_ use!

They are changing/hybridizing the product they are selling to 'double dip' into the benefits but not the costs of both -- We signed up for a plan - not a pay per use. Now they charge us a 'GB plan price' for any MB over usage, yet we don't get the rest of the GB plan price product that we get charged/have paid for. There has got to be something in Tort Law that shows this to be illegal. Come on CRTC - what a joke of regulation and extortion of the public/consumer!

Illegal? No, they're selling you 200gb/month. Is it illegal for a gas station to sell you gas for $3.50/gallon? If you want to download more than 200GB, you pay more.

Neutrality? That doesn't even enter the picture. That has to do with preference for certain traffic. They're limiting you to bandwidth, regardless of what kind of data you download.

This is the US - they don't have to justify their price. As long as enough people are willing to pay it, they can charge whatever they like. Your only choice is to vote with your feet - use a different provider. If enough customers cancel, they'll change.