AT&T customers don’t need more than 6 Mbps downstream

AT&T is a reasonable telecoms company. It estimated its customers’ needs in bandwidth shouldn’t overcome the 6Mbps/1Mbps downlink/uplink rate. So AT&T is doing fine, even if its competitors, like ComCast, one by one, are installing download booster.

But, according to IP Democracy, the company considers turning “unreasonable.” It is contemplating adding a download booster option, or a pair-bonding (see this example) which will snap an 50+ Mbps delivery to some customers willing to pay for it.

In such a situation, the AT&T quality of service would be almost perfect for simultaneously watching broadband TV, calling over the Internet and sharing a dozen files on some peer-to-peer file-swapping platform.

Jun 16, 2006 | By Nuno

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AT&T customers don’t need more than 6 Mbps downstream

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