AT&T, the country’s largest Internet provider, is considering charging extra for customers who download large amounts of data. “A form of usage-based pricing for those customers who have abnormally high usage patterns is inevitable,” spokesperson Michael Coe said this week. The top 5 percent of AT&T’s DSL customers use 46 percent of the total bandwidth, Coe said. Overall bandwidth use on the network is surging, doubling every year and a half. AT&T doesn’t have any specific plans or fees to announce yet, Coe said.
