As if things aren't bad enough... AT&T terms change targets Sling

I love it...

it's about time we spoke and the a--holes at AT&T woke up and paid attention...

they take and take and take from us and I am amazed that they are still in business...

I miss the days when AT&T was just a long distance company...that you had to deal with only if you had to call someone in another state

MCI was so much better in my opinion...they treated their customers with respect...but I'm sure that is why they are no more...at least I think they are no more...lol

Companies like AT&T, Comcast, and the like...that think they can just do whatever they want to do and get away with it should be destroyed

hell yes...someone would have sued AT&T for that change in TOS because it goes against everything that Apple has made the iPhone to be

and changing that would have probably caused Apple to have been able to break their contract with them...I bet Cook called them up and said "OH HELL NO YOU WONT"...and therefore the retraction

AT&T doesn’t want to piss off Apple because if it wasn’t for Apple they would not have the income that they have now...

great story...love how it got all worked out (I'm sure there is a catch in there somewhere) by the time I got to the end of the comments

peace mac heads...yeah

"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."

From Engadget

Looks like AT&T has retracted the change, claiming it was added in by mistake.
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"customer initiated redirection of television or other video OR AUDIO signals via any technology from a fixed location to a mobile device, "

Does that mean that apps like Simplify Media to stream my music from my computer are also no longer allowed?

it seems like at&t has retracted the new ToS.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/atandt-retracts-new-terms-of-service-apologizes/

PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THIS.................Customer initiated will/should not mean using an app approved by apple in the app store. It isn't "customer initiated" it is using a company approved app the way it was meant too. "Customer initiated" would be something that you streamed from a website in the mpeg4/h.264 format. Am I the only one that sees it this way? YouTube, Orb, Pandora ..........none of these will be banned and are not violating the new TOS. My two cents.

I thought all the AT&T iPhone data plans in the US are 'Unlimited"? I guess that means nothing after this announcement.

Well, it's just a matter of time before I end up leaving the US and move to other country, where the cell phone carriers are more friendly to CONSUMERS.

Man, now come to think of it, maybe T-Mobile and Sprint is not bad after all. T-Mobile, has better reputation, thanks to Android. (now powered by CADIE, which will kill us all)

Am I correct in saying that if I am on a wireless network this would negate all data charges?

I understand this is particularly bad for Sling and such, but how exactly would my viewing of a YouTube video clip on my iPhone not be "customer initiated redirection of television or other video or audio signals via any technology from a fixed location to a mobile device"?

The asset is stored in a fixed location (YouTube's server) and I am initiating its redirection from that location to my iPhone through AT&T's network by opening the YouTube app and requesting its playback.

I don't like that terminology at all.