AT&T Presents New Terms of Service, Fastest U-Verse Customers Risk Slowdowns

AT&T's has announced new terms of service for broadband customers, and the first thing we can tell you is that you’d better prepare for a chocked connection (if you’re a customer, of course).

Although they didn’t go the same way as Comcast (at least for now) with the implementation of usage caps, the new policy will be a kick in the balls of the average, not-a-heavy-downloader user.

This is what AT&T told Gizmodo: "We’re not referring to the use of high-bandwidth activity from other services, like AppleTV, we are saying that customers who subscribe to our higher-bandwidth tiers could see slowdowns in their Internet throughput." This would actually translate in users not having their traffic slowed down due to huge downloads but, instead, due to network congestion whatever the causes. Moreover, if you’re using one of the faster U-Verse broadband packages your potentiality as a victim of this limitation increases. The company claims the difference will not even be notice by the most of subscribers.

However, if you’re an AT&T customer, we recommend you to take a look at the whole package of updates related to terms of service. Who knows what other prospects of “benefits” you may find there.

In order to provide a consistently high-quality video service, AT&T Uverse High Speed Internet throughput speeds may be temporarily reduced when a customer is using other U-verse services in a manner that requires high bandwidth. This could occur more often with higher speed Internet access products. It may be necessary, for some AT&T High Speed Internet users, for AT&T to set a maximum downstream speed on a customer line to enhance the reliability and consistency of performance.