Posts tagged Internet
T-Mobile drop data usage in February
T-Mobile in the UK have made a change to there data use policy, from February 2011, all users will be restricted to only 500MB a month. “If you want to download, stream and watch video clips, save that stuff for your home broadband,” said T-Mobile in a statement. A T-Mobile spokesman told Computer Weekly, it is reducing its fair use policy (FUP) in line with the industry. “As the average mobile internet customer uses only 200MB of data each month, this will only affect a small minority of users, whom we have begun notifying,” said the spokesman.
The spokesman also said customers who exceed the data limits will not be charged and will still be able to access email and web browsing services. Only file downloads will be restricted.
The Internet Gets Real
By now we’re all very familiar that the seeming anonymity of the internet can bring out the worst qualities in some people.
Sometimes you get those who hide behind their computers and become vicious keyboard warriors.
The best and most rational thing to do is just to grow a thick skin and ignore the bad comments, but Kansas City woman Breana Danielle Greathouse, 25, had enough and wasn’t going to take it any more.
Internet cut off date set for illegal downloaders
In the UK – Lord Peter Mandelson has outlined the details of anti file-sharing legislation set to come into play – naming the date when illegal downloaders’ internet connections could be cut off.
The Business Secretary, speaking at the digital creative industries conference cabinet, said that if the amount of illegal file-sharing taking place in the UK hadn’t dropped by 70 per cent a year on from April 2010 measures to cut off file-sharers’ connections would come into place from July 2011.
