You know those early termination fees wireless carriers charge? The ones that cost you an arm and a leg to cancel your contract?

If you're a Verizon customer, I hope you have a few arms and legs to spare. Early termination fees are about to go up.

AT&T is threatening to punish customers by imposing higher fees on users who consume more data through its wireless service.

Head of AT&T Mobility Ralph de la Vega claims that a small minority of customers is responsible for the majority of data usage:

The Chairman of the FCC just name-checked the iPhone, Palm Pre and BlackBerry in a speech. Welcome to 2009, Mr. Chairman!

Here's the text, from Chairman Julius Genachowski's speech at the annual CTIA trade show:

As we briefly mentioned yesterday, AT&T has agreed to allow its customers to make calls with VoIP apps over its 3G network.

This is a very big deal. In a just released statement, Free Press' research director Derek Turner said the following: