Comments on: AT&T Announces iPhone VOIP Now Permitted Over 3G Data Network

By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:25:03 +0000

Eric, AT&T’s interpretation of abuse is not bad evidence. If you overuse any service (in their view), they will shut you off. Plain and simple. It’s happened and will continue to happen.

By: Eric steely

Eric steely — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:59:46 +0000

I would agree, but roaming is different and as such bad evidence. I was only wondering if you had ever seen it writing? Only curious.

By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:25:49 +0000

Eric, it’s in the Acceptable Usage legalese. AT&T has also made similar statements to the FCC. Obviously, if you are abusing your network in their view, they will shut you off. Ask the people who roamed frequently how that went.

By: Eric steely

Eric steely — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:38:55 +0000

Where did you see “abusive usage” as a stipulation. I can’t find it on my documentation from ATT

By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:30:47 +0000

AT&T has a 5 GB cap on tethered and mobile broadband card usage. For handset usage, AT&T has maintained that there is a cap, but they won’t detail how much beyond “abusive usage.”

This allows them to continue marketing cheap data add-ons as unlimited, without having to add additional boiler plate. One can assume it is likely around the 5 GB level, but may require multiple months of usage to trigger action from AT&T.

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:40:34 +0000

so att doesnt have a 5gig cap on data?

By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:30:15 +0000

If you use Skype/SIP/VoIP, yes… until AT&T puts a hard cap on data like Verizon has.

Something tells me that will happen the same month Apple approves the first 3G-enabled VoIP applications.

By: Duker

Duker — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:35:26 +0000

so what does this mean? you can have unlimited cellular on the data side and it won’t cost against your minutes?