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Nov. 6, 2008

Early this morning, AT&T said it is going to implement bandwidth limits and will begin test trials to better determine the more appropriate limit rates.

The first trial region is in Reno, Nevada.

AT&T will designate a second trial market before the end of 2008. Several other wireless providers, including Comcast, Rogers and Time Warner Cable are already implementing some bandwidth limits.

The issue is to determine a way to implement limits but without violating the privacy or discriminating against wireless subscribers.

The mobile carrier is relying on the same rationale as other service providers: dealing with bandwidth hogs.

AT&T said that about 5.1 percent of its subscribers take up half or sometime more of its network capacity.

AT&T plans to limit downloads to 20 gigabytes per month for customers of its slowest DSL tier, at 768 kbps.

The limit increases with the speed of the plan, up to 150 gigabytes per month at the 10 Mbps tier.

Exceeding the limit will cost $1 extra per gigabyte.

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Source: AT&T.