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Verizon halves EVDO overage charges, shows that the wireless data cartel cares about consumers

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2008-06-26 19:15:00 by Doug Aamoth in CrunchGear
...overage fees for EVDO data and will set a cap of $250 per month in maximum fees for any three of a customers billing cycles. After that, subscribers will be subject to unlimited, non-capped overage charges. So if you go over your 5GB limit by one extra gigabyte, it could cost you $256. However, Verizons been nice enough to offer those poor...
 
Tags: data, month, 5gb-per-month line, evdo data, month plan, 5gb, month plans, data plan, verizon
 
 
 
 
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iPhone 3G plans official, run from $70 and up

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2008-07-01 15:10:52 by Rob Beschizza in Boing Boing Gadgets
...Overages are charged at 45 cents a minute For $90, subscribers get 900 day minutes and unlimited off-peak use. Additional minutes are 40 cents each. A $110 package bumps daytime use to 1350 minutes a month, and drops the overage rate to 35 cents. The $130 plan has unlimited everything Family plans begin at $130 for 700 daytime minutes,...
 
Tags: minutes, additional minutes, voice minutes, day minutes, two-year contract extension, two-year contract, daytime minutes, iphone, off-peak minutes
 
 
 
 
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Bye Bye Unlimited Flat-Rate Internet

2008-01-18 11:19:35 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
 
...overage charges. Existing and new subscribers will have tracking capability, however only new subscribers will be charged incrementally for bandwidth usage above the cap Following the trial, a determination will be made as to whether or not existing subscribers should be charged. Only residential subscribers will be impacted. Trial in...
 
Tags: internet, bandwidth usage, usage, internet access, bandwidth, bandwidth model, time warner cable, track usage, internet companies
 
 
 
 
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AT&T: More Than 5GB of Data Costs $350/Month + $500/GB

2008-03-18 18:07:43 by Sascha Segan in Gearlog
 
...Overage plan We've heard elsewhere about both AT&T and Verizon throttling connections to 200 kbps/sec if you go over 5GB. But what about that new "DataConnect 5GB Overage Plan?" You can't find it anywhere on AT&T's Web site. But if you call in, you'll find it's $350/month for 5GB, plus $0.50 per megabyte (really, $.0005 per kb, but my...
 
Tags: 5gb, month, att, cover 5gb, att rep, data, wireless broadband, andor deny, 60month broadband plans
 
 
 
 
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All-You-Can-Eat Broadband Is Dead: Time Warner to Charge by the Byte [Bittorrenters Beware]

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2008-01-17 12:00:05 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
...overage fees Supposedly, consumption-based billing is aimed at all you assholes downloading movies from BitTorrent"heavy users of large downloads," the purported 5 percent that swallows "up to 50 percent of network capacity" in order to improve network performance. But this is, at least partially, BS Everybody is using more bandwidth than...
 
Tags: time warner, time, network, network neutrality, improve network performance, hard, users, heavy users, hard caps
 
 
 
 
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Time Warners overage caps could be as low as 5GB per month

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2008-01-21 20:29:03 by Devin Coldewey in CrunchGear
We all knew this time would come, and last weeks disturbing news that Time Warner would be testing bandwidth caps in Texas came as no surprise. But we never thought the limits would be so low . Granted, 5GB is the bottom of their estimates as to where they might place caps, but they shouldnt even be thinking at that level. That amount of data...
 
Tags: caps, time, low, time warner, bandwidth caps, heavy internet user, homeland security, 5gb, potential
 
 
 
 
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Daily Crunch: The DJ from Outer Space Edition

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2008-01-22 08:00:11 by Bryce Durbin in CrunchGear
A democratic solution to the neverending party DJ problem TokyoFlash Tibida: White LEDs Time-killing list: Top 25 tech flops Spaceships to be made out of paper if Japan Folded Paper Plane Society has anything to say about it Time Warners overage caps could be as low as 5GB per month ShareThis
 
Tags: paper plane society, paper, tech flops, tokyoflash tibida, democratic solution, white leds, month, party, sharethis
 
 
 
 
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Verizon Nationwide Unlimited Anytime Minute Plans

2008-02-19 10:57:59 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
 
...overage charges, but for people like me that rarely talk on my mobile phone $99/month is pretty expensive. Give me unlimited data for $35/month with 1000 voice minutes and I'd be a happy camper. Till then I think I'm going to go with pre-paid cellular plans which are cheaper for me Tags: Nationwide Unlimited Anytime Minute Plans , Verizon ,...
 
Tags: plans, anytime minute plans, verizon, minute, verizon wireless chief, verizon wireless, mobile phone 99month, 99month, pre-paid cellular plans
 
 
 
 
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Sprint Launches Revolutionary $99.99 ''Simply Everything(SM)'' Plan

2008-02-29 00:18:51 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...overage surprises and provides a worry-free environment Our investments in innovation and speed are becoming the new areas of differentiation. These are the areas where we perform best and where we can deliver a wireless advantage for our customers About Sprint Nextel Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline...
 
Tags: sprint, sprint nextel offers, sprint nextel, data services, mobile data services, data, sprint retail location, wireless data network, sprint tv