AT&T Ditches Metered Billing Trials Without Telling Anyone

Courtesy Techdirt  Thu, 06/17/2010 - 00:02

Remember how all those ISPs and broadband providers have been so sure that metered billing and metered broadband is the solution?

Yeah, well, perhaps not. Time Warner Cable got scared off by negative publicity, and as was rumored earlier this year, AT&T has ended its metered broadband trials that got so much attention two years ago.

Of course, unlike the start of the trials, the end has received almost no attention at all -- perhaps because...

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