If you are an AT&T broadband user, get ready to face caps on your monthly data usage.
The telecom giant began placing caps on its "U-verse" brand of broadband effective yesterday, May 23. The company informed its customers, which average 100GB per month, of the cap in a blog post on its corporate website.
Prior to May 23, the company did not enforce the 250MB per month caps on its U-verse broadband users, according to an article on DSL Reports. However, with more and more customers taking advantage of "cord cutting" and relying on an ever-increasing amount of video streaming services, monthly usage rates dramatically rose in recent years.
Current U-verse customers will see slight bumps in their monthly data allowances, depending on their speed tier. Any data accessed once they hit their cap for the month will be billed at $10 per 50 additional GB. Should consumers not want to worry about the cap, they can buy into AT&T's unlimited U-verse plan at an extra #30 per month (a fee which is waived for DirecTV and AT&T TV bundle customers). A usage meter was also introduced for consumers to better track their monthly usage, now that it may be costly for them.
On the DSL Reports forums, AT&T customers naturally bemoaned the cap.
"One of the worst providers ever. The usage meter probably won't even work. Even if it does work, this is a money grab. These companies make me sick," user grabacon9 lamented.
