In the United States, in a suburb of Fort Lauderdale Florida, ATT can offer us only DSL service, at 3 megabits down, and several hundred kilobits up. That is because ATT owns the lines and the routers, and has no leasing agreements in this area, ie: a monopoly... In 2005, the Federal Communications Commission classified the internet as an Information Service, not a Communications Service. AT&T is currently limiting this information service by creating Speed Tiers, Mb limits and caps, and other profitable surcharges. ATT's position is to provide profits for itself, in direct opposition to the FCC's mandate to make the internet available . In this application, a child is penalized for watching a streaming webcast from his school, because the internet connection on his new wireless internet device has a 50 mb Tier Cap, and the webcast used 0ver 100 mb of bandwidth. In addition, ATT network traffic caused interruptions in his data stream, because of dynamic resource provisioning reducing..