i can't imagine anyone is actually excited about this. i'd prefer not to have formal rules here, with the exception that AT&T can punish their top 0.05% users b

i can't imagine anyone is actually excited about this. i'd prefer not to have formal rules here, with the exception that AT&T can punish their top 0.05% users by bandwidth usage. they want to turn the internet into a giant cable tv package because they know that as soon as they offer speeds fast enough, people will drop their tv subscription. i worry that traffic discrimination will come next. do we have any solid numbers on how much this costs AT&T? i want to say it's a violation of network neutrality principles, but this could probably be argued on a much simpler basis that AT&T isn't attempting to save money at this point, seems like they're just price gouging now. SMS text messages are a good example here.