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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ AT&T to Tweak, Raise Broadband Data Plans ]]></title>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Jeff Baumgartner ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Kxgi5Eh3du6oYkWqfUA9MR-1280-80.jpg">
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                                <figure class="van-image-figure pull-" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' ><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="Kxgi5Eh3du6oYkWqfUA9MR" name="" alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Kxgi5Eh3du6oYkWqfUA9MR.jpg" mos="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Kxgi5Eh3du6oYkWqfUA9MR.jpg" align="" fullscreen="" width="" height="" attribution="" endorsement="" class="pull-"></p></div></div></figure><p>AT&T said it will change the data plans and monthly allowances for some wireline broadband customers starting August 21.</p><p>U-verse Internet subs on tiers with speeds up to 300 Mbps will see their monthly data ceiling rise to 1 terabyte before overage fees are applied ($10 for an additional bucket of 50 gigabytes of data).</p><p>However, customers who bundle U-verse Internet with U-verse TV or DirecTV service and pay for services on a single bill, per the current policy, still get unlimited home Internet data for no additional charge.  Other U-verse data subs still have the option to buy an unlimited plan for an additional $30 per month.</p><p>Meanwhile, customers on GigaPower, AT&T’s fiber-based offering with speeds up to 1 Gbps, will be moving to an unlimited data plan.  AT&T has been pairing GigaPower with 1-TB soft caps that charge $10 for each additional bucket of 50 gigabytes, with a max monthly overage charge of $30.</p><p>Prior to the new policy, subs on tier with speeds between 768 kbps to 6 Mbps were fixed with 300 GB monthly data allowances, while 12 Mbps to 75 Mbps were set at 600 GB, and those on plans with 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps speeds were set at 1 TB.</p><p>“For customers with internet speeds below 12Mbps, this triples their current amount of data; for customers with internet speeds ranging from 12Mbps to 75Mbps, this nearly doubles their current allowance,” Cheryl Choy, AT&T’s VP of data and voice products, said in the <a href="http://about.att.com/inside_connections_blog/more_data">announcement.</a></p><p>AT&T <a href="http://att.com/InternetUsage">has set up a site</a> where customers can estimate, monitor and manage their data usage. AT&T said it will start to notify customers about the updated policies on August 1.</p><p>AT&T is also just one of several ISPs to recently adjust broadband usage policies.</p><p>Comcast is testing a 1 TB usage plan and an unlimited data option in a subset of markets, with <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/usage-based-broadband-picks-more-steam-406567" data-original-url="https://www.multichannel.com/news/usage-based-broadband-picks-more-steam-406567">Chicago joining the mix August 1 (subscription required).</a></p><p>Alaska’s GCI <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/gci-pairs-1-gig-broadband-bigger-data-plan-406529" data-original-url="https://www.multichannel.com/news/gci-pairs-1-gig-broadband-bigger-data-plan-406529">bumped the monthly limit</a> of “Red,” its 1 Gbps residential cable modem service, from 750 GB  to 1 TB.</p><p>CenturyLink is also <a href="https://www.nexttv.com/news/centurylink-preps-usage-based-broadband-trial-406457" data-original-url="https://www.multichannel.com/news/centurylink-preps-usage-based-broadband-trial-406457">testing a usage-based billing policy</a> in Yakima, Wash., but has not committed beyond that.</p>
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