Soon and very soon, the accounting nerds at SBC, the real entity known as AT&T, are ending the bandwidth gravy train.  In the industry, we all knew they’d get around the trying again after the glorious fail of their metered billing trials in Texas.  We just didn’t knew when.  Well, that when is now May 2nd.  Broadband Reports broke the scoop over the weekend.

As of May 2nd, all DSL customers will have a 150GB cap.  All U-Verse customers will have a 250GB cap.  Go over that 3 times anytime in the *life* of the customer account and you get whacked an extra $10 for every 50GB over, every time you go over.  So if you are 51GB over, that is an extra $20 tacked onto the bottom of your bill.

Business users of DSL are strongly encouraged to take note and plan accordingly.  If you need alternate bandwidth providers, call us - 888.407.5030, get a quote for Ethernet service online or investigate T1s, bonded T1s, etc.

For users of online backup services and WAN based file replication, this is particularly important to consider as a single PC easily can burn through the entire bandwidth allocation.