AT&T looking at charging heavy Internet users extra

Source: href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080612/tec_at_t_internet.html
12 Jun 2008
Short Summary:
AT&T Inc., the country's largest Internet provider, is considering charging extra for customers who download large amounts of data. "A form of usage-based pricing for those customers who have abnormally high usage patterns is inevitable," spokesman Michael Coe said this week. The top 5 percent of AT&T's DSL customers use 46 percent of the total bandwidth, Coe said.

Intercast Feedback:
15 Jun 2008
Author: Noam Bardin, Intercast Networks CEO
The current unicast technology paradigm creates a strange business situation - consumers want more video content from the internet, content owners are embracing legal delivery to satisfy this demand but ISPs are attempting to throttle, traffic shape, rate limit, meter or "optimize" this usage - basically not providing what consumers want to receive. Multicast-to-Storage (M2S) can lower the delivery cost to the point where all players can enjoy on-line video delivery - consumers, content owners and ISPs.