AT&T Changes Terms of Service Back: Takes Out Video Clause

By Contributor Wireless and Mobile News on April 6, 2009 1:33 PM

AT&T changed its terms of service to limit video streaming, last week. It caused an uproar from consumer advocacy groups. AT&T has changed its change back to its original wording.

The bold text is what was added:

This means, by way of example only, that checking email, surfing the Internet, downloading legally acquired songs, and/or visiting corporate intranets is permitted, but downloading movies using P2P file sharing services, customer initiated redirection of television or other video or audio signals via any technology from a fixed location to a mobile device, web broadcasting, and/or for the operation of servers, telemetry devices and/or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition devices is prohibited.

Those bold additions have been removed.

The company sent Engadget the following statement:

"The language added on March 30 to AT&T's wireless data service Terms and Conditions was done in error. It was brought to our attention and we have since removed it. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."

Broadband data continues to be a problem for the networks like when the SXSW Fest caused an iPhone data network outage.Wireless broadband is usually capped and causes problems for unknowing owners . One guy got a $28,000 bill for watching a Bears game while an attorney is suing AT&T after getting a $5,000 wireless broadband bill. Wireless networks cap data usage, and then charge by the kilobyte and well watching a video could cost a lot.