Up and coming mobile operator AmaySIM knows that Australians love their cap plans, so has added to its pay-as-you-go offerings with a $40 a month cap plan that looks pretty tough to beat. More »
My biggest concern with Telstra’s launch of the HTC Desire was that even though it was free on a $69 plan over 24 months, there wasn’t any included data at all. Telstra’s new cap plans address that a bit, with the phone now available for $0 outright on a $79 cap plan, which includes $750 of standard voice, SMS, MMS and Video Calls plus 500MB of data. Hope you didn’t sign up to the $69 plan… More »
Ever since Vodafone and Three started sharing a bed and calling themselves VHA, we’ve been waiting for them to share the love with their customers. Well, they’ve started the process this month by rejigging their post-paid cap plans, but they’ve still got a long way to go. More »
The Sap Cap isn’t just a logo-less baseball cap. It’s also a blackjack, one of those weighted leather weapons private eyes used to get socked with all the time back in the 1940s.
Texas may be great, but it could not contain Time Warner’s HD video-killing monthly broadband data caps, which have now spread beyond its borders.
When the G1 launched, there was an uproar over T-Mobile’s 1GB-a-month soft data cap that would slow your connection down to a 50kbps trickle, and they backpedaled. Guess what? The cap’s coming back.
T-Mobile’s just rolled back on their 1GB usage cap on their 3G plans for upcoming G1 Android customers, instead going to a hold-up-while-we-figure-this-out route. The statement they give now states that they can reduce throughput for “a small fraction” of users who are using too much data, but exact terms and limits are still being reviewed before they’re finalised. Statement after the jump.
AT&T’s just updated its terms of service for broadband customers, and starting next month, if you’re a heavy downloader, get ready to have your connection squeezed to a trickle. While they haven’t implemented usage caps a la Comcast (yet) they are using a similar traffic management technique starting on Oct. 18 that will slow down your whole connection if you’re “using other U-verse services in a manner that requires high bandwidth.”
Comcast has sued the FCC to overturn its order to stop slowing down P2P traffic, as was widely predicted. Even though they’re fighting to have the FCC’s ruling reversed, it’s actually not so they can go back to mucking your P2P funtime—no, they’re already way down the road of slowing down heavy users’ entire connection to DSL speed for up to 20 minutes, with data caps beginning in October.
