AT&T claims mobile data controls to respect net neutrality
11th December, 2009 by adina
Tags: AT&T, News
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According to Ralph de la Vega, CEO at AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, said that the company will be careful when changing its mobile data services to place restrictions on heavy use. He reiterated the hesitation of the company to commit to a plan and also promised that AT&T would respect net neutrality when scaling back from the current unlimited strategy. The carrier would react depending on system upgrades able to track real-time utilization. Pricing would be affected not only by regulation but also by pressure of the competition and by reaction of the customers.
Ralph de la Vega said that it would be necessary to keep a certain level of control due to the level of data use that is disproportionate. Many network upgrades like 3G at 850MHz and the improved infrastructure were meant to decrease the need of such controls, but most demanding AT&T subscribers would certainly have to change their behaviour. Education is important, according to de la Vega, as users are not always aware of what heavy use means. Many of them think that e-mail is resource consuming, while in reality video and audio streaming cause difficulties to the company.
These statements are allusions to possible backtracking on the company’s part from the previous approach to 3G network data use. The AT&T’s official recognized that some specific iPhone applications were blocked because of using large amounts of data. Such policies determined the FCC to try to regulate cell phone traffic as a component of its preliminary net neutrality rules, in order to ensure a fair treatment for VoIP, video or similar tasks.
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They have the single most revolutionary telecom device and ecosystem in a iron fist and they will kill it off instead of rising to the occasion. This is the height of asininity.
Apple should have gone long and let the carriers fight it out- instead, one shut-down, closed mouthed maker is going to be killed by a shut-down, cut-to-the bone mercenary carrier, and both will limp into obscurity.
Android just won the game, kids. Jobs should have unclenched his brown rose a little more for Verizon et al. Now he, and all the iPhone users that made this revolution, are royally screwed.
lie down with dogs, get up with…a maiming?
Allowing ISPs to decide what can pass over the internet would be similar to allowing the electric company to dictate what appliances customers can run. Why should the CTIA have the right to dictate what content customers can access?
Net Neutrality is the internet equivalent of free speech