[x-pubpol] Fwd: [ NNSquad ] AT&T system would charge you extra for using different kinds of Internet applications

[Joly MacFie]

(via Lauren Weinstein)


AT&T system would charge you extra for using different kinds of
Internet applications

*http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/story/att-system-would-restrict-content-access-charge-fees-prevent-bandwidth-abus/2014-02-03
<http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/story/att-system-would-restrict-content-access-charge-fees-prevent-bandwidth-abus/2014-02-03>*

    AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) has developed an application-aware system
    designed to restrict customers from engaging in "non-permissible"
    bandwidth-intensive activities such as file sharing or movie
    downloading.  The company applied to patent the system, labeling its
    approach as "Prevention Of Bandwidth Abuse Of A Communications
    System." In its patent application, submitted during September 2013
    and published by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office last month, AT&T
    said the system is designed to prevent a user "from consuming an
    excessive amount of channel bandwidth by restricting use of the
    channel in accordance with the type of data being downloaded to the
    user."  The carrier proposes issuing a customer an initial number of
    credits, which are used up as data is consumed.

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