Comcast to Place a 250 gigabyte-a-month Cap on Internet Downloads

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/technology/30comcast.html?em

by gasull • 18 years ago

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Protophore• 18 years ago

Seems like a bad polocy for all users to me. "The new system should only impact some 14,000 customers out of Comcast's 14.1 million users (i.e. the top 0.1%)". That may be true now but as people start to download more movies, videos, photos, etc I can see that percentage going up. I say it's time to start boycotting Comcast if/when this goes into effect.

DavidBrennan• 18 years ago

I agree with Protophore. Comcast has to know darn well that broadband traffic trends upward, and within a couple years this "data tax" is going to be sucking money from everybody - Bill Gates to Aunt Edna.

If the rest of the telecoms follow suit, it will soon put an end to the concept of the Internet as a democratizer and turn it into another class-based system.

Because customers' monthly fees go into R&D, there's an implied contract that their services will continue to improve. This is a violation of that implied (not written or legally binding) contract.

It'll be a scathing indictment of the state of U.S. capitalism if a competitor doesn't step in and offer customers better service for lower costs.

Comcast to Place a 250 gigabyte-a-month Cap on Internet Downloads

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