Comcast confirms 250GB cap effective October 1

["David Farber" <dave () farber net>]

The will lower the cap as time goes on. I assume they will loudly advertise the respriction and I hope Verizon loudly 
advertises it does not YET. djf
 

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From: Sunil Garg [mailto:sunil () sunilgarg com]
Sent: Thu 8/28/2008 6:41 PM
To: David Farber
Subject: Comcast confirms 250GB cap effective October 1


The IP crowd might be interested in this. VentureBeat reports:


You just knew it was too good to last. Starting on October 1 of this year, Internet service provider Comcast will begin 
placing a cap on the amount of data its customers can access a month, DSLreports has learned 
<http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-250GB-Monthly-Cap-Goes-Live-October-1-97294> .

The 250 gigabyte cap, now confirmed by Comcast <http://www.comcast.net/terms/network/amendment/> , represents on 14,000 
of the company's 14.1 million users, it claims. While that may be true today, and while 250 gigabytes may seem like a 
very high cap, going forward, this is going to be problematic.

http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/28/comcast-to-dam-and-damn-the-internet-with-usage-caps/

Regards,
Sunil



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