> While AT&T asserts that its high-end 2GB cap will only impact the heaviest users, the fact is that today’s heavy user is tomorrow’s average user,” Free Press policy counsel M. Chris Riley said in a statement. “Internet overcharging schemes like the one AT&T proposes will discourage innovative new uses and stifle healthy growth in the mobile broadband economy. It is price gouging for AT&T to charge the low-end users $15 per 200MB, and to charge $20 for tethering capability even if no additional capacity is…

> Bad news is traditionally reserved for Friday—late Friday afternoon being most promising. And last Friday, AT&T dropped a bit of bad news in an “open letter to our valued customers”: get ready to pay $325 in early termination fees (ETFs) if you want a new iPhone. via [arstechnica.com](http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/digging-into-atts-new-325-early-termination-fee.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss)A few things to say about this development, late as I may be to chime in: First: LAME. AT&T…

People who don’t live in San Francisco are most likely tired of hearing it by now. But I just want to reconfirm and reiterate that if you’ve never been to San Francisco with your iPhone, you have no way of knowing just how terrible we have it here. Especially not if you live in Philadelphia. For three days, I went everywhere from Center City to many of the surrounding suburbs, walking, standing still, and driving at various speeds, and NOT ONCE did I ever have anything but full…

> In an odd move, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said at an investor conference on Tuesday that the iPad would be primarily a “Wi-Fi driven device.” This despite Apple’s plans to release a 3G-enabled version that will run on AT&T’s own network. > > “My expectation is that there’s not going to be a lot of people out there looking for another subscription,” [Reuters reports him saying](http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6214NY20100303?type=technologyNews). via [macworld.com](http://www.macworld.com/article/146823/2010/03/stephenson_ipad.…

> Also [in the earnings call,](http://www.macworld.com/article/146086/2010/02/ipad_att_3gnetwork.html?lsrc=rss_main/article/146029/2010/01/att_network_ipad_iphone.html) Stankey and AT&T Chief Financial Officer Rick Lindner both emphasized that AT&T’s 20,000 Wi-Fi hot spots will help iPad performance, and that iPad users will also rely on private Wi-Fi service in homes and offices. Lindner said the iPad will be used a “substantial amount of time in a Wi-Fi environment” and promised that if that’s…