Efforts by the mobile-phone service provider to charge more for heavy data usage may alienate customers and stymie innovation and growth in the wireless Web.
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The carrier has written a letter to the Federal Communications Commission claiming that Google has violated the agency’s Net neutrality principles, which Google has long supported. Google defended its position in a blog post written by Richard Whitt, Google’s main lobbyist and telecommunications lawyer in Washington, that basically said AT&T is comparing apples and oranges.
As AT&T struggles to keep up with iPhone-delivered videos and apps, its leadership in the market for smartphone Web access is at stake.
I for one hope AT&T drops the ball and Apple cuts the cord once and for all. My experience with AT&T started out worthless and went steadily downhill. Emphasis mine.
Internet connection advancement in the U.S. and Canada has been purely an interest of the corporations that provide them and not about serving the consumer—you—and the advancement of technology in America in general.
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