Friday 3 June 2011

 Canada may be getting its first peak at truly unlimited home Internet with Shaw's new unlimited plan, but in the US we are seeing the opposite trend.

One by one, telecom companies are eliminating all-you-can-eat data plans, even as Internet firms roll out compelling new products that all but demand unlimited downloads.

 After AT&T's announcement of usage based billing last month, it seems that many other ISPs are going to follow suit.

We have not yet seen a significant public outcry, but some are fighting back:
"While broadband caps are not inherently problematic, they carry the omnipresent temptation to act in anticompetitive and monopolistic ways," the consumer groups Public Knowledge and New America Foundation warned in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission last month, raising concerns about AT&T's new limits.: 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/31/BUBP1JNKF6.DTL#ixzz1OCokfbIm