[ NNSquad ] Re: User sues AT&T after $5000+ bill for exceeding 5 GB bandwidth cap

[Brett Glass <nnsquad@brettglass.com>]

At 04:50 PM 3/3/2009, Sean Bradly wrote:
 
> However, this is what not what
> AT&T elects to charge you for 15GB/month: ($60+$5000(10GB
> overage))*12(months)*2(years).  That's $121,440 folks. That's
> 2800% markup. Thats a 30 year mortgage.

That's a bargain. It's a fraction of the cost of the spectrum needed to
deliver that much bandwidth. Remember, companies like AT&T bid up to
$3 million on tiny 5 MHz slivers of spectrum, which one user could
consume completely by downloading data 24x7.

--Brett Glass