Hot Topic: Mobile Broadband Pricing
Celeste LeCompte- Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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In the last two weeks, data pricing changes from AT&T and the launch of Apple’s iPhone 4 have thrust metered broadband into the spotlight. As Stacey Higginbotham recently described at GigaOM, the iPhone’s new features (say, video chat) and high-profile apps (Netflix, e.g.) threatened put a heavy burden on AT&T’s data networks, prompting the company to rescind its unlimited, all-you-can-eat data plans.
While the move has created quite a hubub, it’s unlikely that AT&T is the last carrier to rethink how it prices mobile data use. This is a topic we’ve covered regularly here at GigaOM Pro, so we thought in light of recent events, it was worth collecting this coverage into one place.
- Will Metered Mobile Data Slow App Stores’ Growth? (June 3, 2010)
- How AT&T Will Deal with iPad Data Demand (January 27, 2010)
- Metered Mobile Broadband is Coming, Here’s How (December 28, 2009)
- Mobile Broadband: Pricing for Profits (September 9, 2009)
- With Metered Broadband, No One Wins (May 18, 2009)
