Image by Todd Barnard via FlickrThe good day of unlimited internet usage will finally come to an end today, for those who were the most generous web-users and never thought about the data the pull on, might have to rethink. Today is the day that AT&T has previously announced, when it will implement its data caps for all the U-verse and DSL broadband subscribers. Each will now be charged separately on a disclosed tariff, once they have surpassed their pre-set monthly data limits. The data limits were designed and announced to be implemented now, since in March, hence all AT&T broadband customers shall be very vigilant from today onwards there internet is not completely free.
According to the new data plans of AT&T, it has put an upper limit of a total data transfer of 150GB for all DSL subscribes along with a total data transfer limit of 250GB for the U-verse subscribers. All customers will always be kept duly informed, whenever they’re about to surpass or even meet the relevant upper limit of monthly data transfer. This policy, though being considered an unlikable restriction for its customers, is very justifiable. For those who did not even have much of any internet usage before this limit imposition, they will remain completely untouched, as the restriction is extremely merciful. AT&T has specifically designed these upper limits to the data transfer, to catch the freelancers who use the service extra-ordinarily and only this change is aimed to affect that lot only. Hence, it has kept its policies in such a way that the fee calculated for overuse above the set limits of customer, will only be payable if the customer has surpassed the set data transfer limit 3 times already.
According to the analysis of the company, it has kept the policies extremely relaxed as they precisely expect to affect the 2% of its total subscribers. This aimed 2% are those chosen subscribers, who intentionally or otherwise, use extensive internet resulting in unreasonably large amount of network data transferred.
Noticeably, while most other networks brag about their "unlimited" mobile data plans, most of the carriers in U.S. still imply these data cap in actual cases. With the latest activities like high quality video streaming via large services like Hulu and Netflix the bandwidth use is considerably very heavy and it remains on increasing. It was just the matter of time, when such step had to be taken by the internet service providers, in order for them to service in the market. However, it is important to understand, that these data limits will not at all affect the vast majority of users, as we don't already use enough data which will surpass these limits.
It is still very much recommended for an average user to keep an eye on how much data transfer they cause during internet usage on mobile or home.
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