I also find great humor in the throw-away line concerning the necessity of the acquisition of T-Mobile at the end.
I also find great humor in the throw-away line concerning the necessity of the acquisition of T-Mobile at the end.
Apparently AT&T has hired Cato the Elder to do their PR. This is bad news for Carthage.
If I was at the FTC or in Congress, or at Sprint, I would definitely be waving this AT&T policy around, and use it to stop the merger.
What AT&T needs is more competition, not less.
One would assume that ATT did some analysis on bandwidth usage patterns amongst heavy users. They probably came to the conclusion that the top 5% of bandwidth hogs account for X% of their entire bandwidth throughput.
ATT's approach doesnt really solve their problem very much though. If someone has extremely sporadic bandwidth usage but uses gigs at a time, limiting these users won't do much for solving whatever problem they are trying to solve. Maybe their data modeling/forecasting is so accurate that they are able to segment those 5% into various segments and limit that way.