ArsTechnica.com:
by Jon Brodkin
A year ago, the country’s major cellular carriers agreed to new rules requiring them to alert consumers before they exceed usage limits and incur costly overage fees. The Federal Communications Commission announced today the carriers have met their initial requirements.
That doesn’t mean the plan is fully implemented, but it is close. All ten participating carriers (including the big four, Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile) have met the requirement to alert users before they hit data caps.
But not all have yet complied with rules to send out alerts before limits on voice, texting, and international roaming are reached. Under the program, the carriers must send out alerts in all of those scenarios by April 17, 2013. To hit the deadline that passed today, the companies only had to meet two of the four requirements (data, text, voice, and international roaming).
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by Jon Brodkin
A year ago, the country’s major cellular carriers agreed to new rules requiring them to alert consumers before they exceed usage limits and incur costly overage fees. The Federal Communications Commission announced today the carriers have met their initial requirements.
That doesn’t mean the plan is fully implemented, but it is close. All ten participating carriers (including the big four, Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile) have met the requirement to alert users before they hit data caps.
But not all have yet complied with rules to send out alerts before limits on voice, texting, and international roaming are reached. Under the program, the carriers must send out alerts in all of those scenarios by April 17, 2013. To hit the deadline that passed today, the companies only had to meet two of the four requirements (data, text, voice, and international roaming).
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