Last Chance for Unlimited iPad Data

June 7, 2010 - Today's most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment:

Last Chance For Unlimited iPad Data: As AT&T prepares to launch new limited data plans, the company is giving potential iPad customers one last chance to purchase an iPad with an unlimited data plan. You have to do it today. Don't worry if the iPad you want isn't in stock, if you place the order today, you will qualify for AT&T's unlimited data plan.

TWC Tiered Pricing Redux: with AT&T initiating tiered pricing, the time may be right for land-based ISPs to do the same. While last year's Time Warner Cable experiment with tiered broadband pricing didn't go well, in discussing the future of household broadband data plans, TWC CEO Glenn Britt said, "Some people use less, so they should pay less." Ominous!

Flash Hacks Possible: A new report shows that Adobe's Flash is vulnerable to hackers. Adobe has acknowledged the bug, saying it knows that Flash is not immune to attacks. No need to worry, the Flash police are on it.

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Comments

[Ramon Nuez]

08:48 AM on 06/08/2010

Listen, this has everything to do with protecting its infrastructure. The smartphone ecosystem is growing aggressively and by 2014 mobile data traffic will increase 50 x’s what it was in 2009. The majority of that traffic will be user generated and video. Additionally — Cisco’s VNI report states that by 2014 the data traveling the Internet will be 63.9 EB per month.

AT&T understands these numbers intimately and they will jealously defend its infrastructure. Additionally, AT&T is in in the process of upgrading its radio interfaces to HSPA+ and LTE. They will need to upgrade their core network to 4G — for LTE Advanced. This is a fare amount of CAPEX and OPEX being invested — someone has to pay for it.