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Re: Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 07:35:52 -0700
________________________________________ From: lynn [lynn () ecgincc com] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:19 AM To: David Farber Cc: imhopper () gmail com Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees I disagree about the rest of the world. Asia has much more widespread access, and better than the US. I'm not sure of the cost. Further, as more and more information, applications, etc goes online, the limit will likely cause many issues or costs. If I purchase a movie view from Comcast (on demand) will that count in their limit? I doubt it. This creates a huge disadvantage for any Comcast competitor. As to the truth from Comcast, they have been caught in so many untruths that it's difficult to believe them. I think it's very possible this is a fishing (not phishing) expedition for reaction before makiking a decision. Unfortunately the majority of people will have no idea how this will effect them, so will stay silent. Lynn
________________________________________ From: David Ian Hopper [imhopper () gmail com] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:16 AM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees Welcome to the rest of the world. Outside the US, unmetered access is far from the norm, from dialup to broadband. In India, I pay about $75/month for 2 Mbps downstream access on an unmetered plan -- that's the fastest a private person can get. The unlimited plans are not widely advertised, and priced well out of the range of even those people who are "rich" enough to have Internet access at all. The most popular plans are 300 rupees (about 7 bucks at the current exchange) for 256KB. On one hand, when you have a lot of people and a limited series of tubes, there have to be limits. On the other, if Comcast is telling the truth that only a tiny percentage of their users are "heavy" users, then they won't piss off very many -- and are likely to get a significant number of those to pay extra for unlimited access, since there are relatively few options for broadband in a given neighborhood. - Ian. On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:47 PM, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:________________________________________ From: Ralph [rs9174 () gmail com] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:43 AM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees 250GB would give you the bandwidth to download how many movies per month? 0? 1? 5? 25? Ralph Sierra ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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