AT&T Bandwidth Hogs
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You fuckers are lucky, it's pretty much always been metered in Australia, whether it's a home DSL connection or a data plan on a mobile. ISPs have tried it, copped an enormous bill from the international fibre carriers, and then stopped offering the plans.
I think it's always been obvious that if you provide unlimited access, it will get tapped for all it's worth, and AT&T and others have attempted to upgrade capacity to compensate, but as they provide more bandwidth, it just gets sucked up by the new smartphone users. Technical mechanisms like port blocking and proxies will always be foiled by the hackers out there who don't want to pay, so their only choice is to charge more for the service. Hurting your back pocket is going to make you think twice about downloading the beer app for your iphone.