At some point on Wednesday the FCC will reveal details concerning the rollout of the national broadband initiative in cooperation with various broadband providers and many other companies across various industries. The goal: bribing affordable broadband service to low income households. The move is being made in an attempt to sign up as many of the nation’s 100+ million unconnected citizens as possible with plans as low as $9.99/month. For the record, Comcast began...
Sprint’s plans to cap (literally) mobile hotspot users have been known for quite a while now. Mobile data card users, however, were thought to have escaped unscathed. Too bad they didn’t. A new chart from Sprint has leaked, showing that the current awesome deal of capped 3G and unlimited 4G will soon be replaced by the now standard (and terribly priced) data tiers in 2 GB, 5 GB and 10 GB flavors — no grandfathered options. Going over your allotted...
Thinking of pulling a fast one on T-Mobile USA by subscribing to the cheaper 200 MB data plan and accepting the throttled speeds afterwards? While that is a great way to save a few bucks, the unfortunate problem is that a boatload of other people had the same idea. As such, T-Mobile USA claims to have had their “expectations exceeded” in demand for the cheaper tier and in turn will remove the sorta-kinda unlimited setup and returning to a traditional capped...
You may currently have issues hitting the remote corners of hour house with measly 802.11-based WiFi, but things will improve for the better once 802.22 networks and devices start popping up. The new 802.22 specification was just published meaning manufacturers can finally start building devices for “public WiFi”. This new WRANs (wireless regional area networks) standard will run over the 54 MHz-698 MHz frequencies previously inhabited by good ‘ol...
Wow. Just, wow. AT&T really, really wants you to hate them. Taking away unlimited data wasn’t enough. Now AT&T wants to screw over unlimited data users too. Starting October 1st, AT&T will begin throttling data speeds “for the top 5% of data users on their network” in an effort to more effectively manage data consumption network-wide as well as ensure everyone has the best experience possible. (Read: AT&T wants more money.) ...
