AT&T changed its terms of service to limit video streaming, last week. It caused an uproar from consumer advocacy groups. AT&T has changed its change back to its original wording.
The bold text is what was added:
This means, by way of example only, that checking email, surfing the
Internet, downloading legally acquired songs, and/or visiting corporate
intranets is permitted, but downloading movies using P2P file sharing
services, customer initiated redirection of television or other
video or audio signals via any technology from a fixed location to a
mobile device, web broadcasting, and/or for the operation of
servers, telemetry devices and/or Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition devices is prohibited.
Those bold additions have been removed.
The company sent Engadget the following statement:
"The language added on March 30 to AT&T's wireless data
service Terms and Conditions was done in error. It was brought to our
attention and we have since removed it. We apologize for any
inconvenience this may have caused."
Broadband data continues to be a problem for the networks like when the SXSW Fest
caused an iPhone data network outage.Wireless broadband is usually
capped and causes problems for unknowing owners . One guy got a $28,000 bill for watching a Bears game while an attorney is suing AT&T after getting a $5,000
wireless broadband bill. Wireless networks cap data usage, and then
charge by the kilobyte and well watching a video could cost a lot.