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http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/28/technology/comcast-data-cap/
>Good news video streaming fans! Comcast has decided to increase its data cap more than three-fold.
>Comcast had been testing a 300 gigabyte monthly data cap. That's equivalent to about 100 hours of HD movies on Netflix.
>But the company found some extra capacity in its couch cushions. It's now opting to give its customers 1 terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) instead.
>According to Comcast, that 1 terabyte would let customers stream about 700 hours of video and download 60,000 high-resolution photos each month. Meanwhile, 16 people could simultaneously play online video games every hour the entire month long.
>Customers who still need more data will have to pay through the nose to get it, though. Comcast increased the price of its unlimited data plan. Customers paying an extra $30 or $35 for unlimited data will now have to pay $50 on top of their regular bill.
>The new data cap and unlimited data price will take effect on June 1.
>More than 99% of Comcast's customers "do not come close" to using a terabyte of data, according to Marcien Jenckes, head of Comcast's consumer cable services. About 8% of Comcast customers used more than the old 300 GB data cap each month.
>Comcast (CMCSA) says a typical customer uses only about 60 gigabytes of data in a month -- just 6% of the new cap.
>The change was a result of listening to customer feedback, Comcast said.
>"We have learned that our customers want the peace of mind to stream, surf, game, download, or do whatever they want online," Jenckes said. "So, we have created a new data plan that is so high that most of our customers will never have to think about how much data they use."
>Comcast says it is still trialing its data caps, and it has not yet rolled them out across the country. Only about 12% of Comcast customers are subject to the data caps, according to Craig Moffett, an analyst at MoffettNathanson.
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>Comcast says it has no current plans to add more cities to its data cap trials.
>Most of Comcast's largest competitors don't have caps.
>Time Warner Cable (TWC) has experimented with optional data caps, but they have not gained significant traction with customers. Charter (CHFN) said it would not impose any limits on customers' broadband usage for three years if its proposed deal for Time Warner Cable is approved by regulators.
>Cablevision (CVC), Bright House and Verizon (VZ, Tech30) FiOS also don't have data caps, and they have pledged not to impose them in the future.
>But Cox and AT&T (T, Tech30) U-Verse do have caps that are similar to Comcast. Both of those companies have caps that begin at 150 GB. Smaller providers, like MediaCom and Suddenlink, also have caps.
Oy gevalt! Comcast such generous master pls what brings you to shower us with such bountiful data oh it is so precious and finite I am but a lowly goy oy veyFUCKING JEWS
>>41356
>datacap
I'm sorry is this the past? I didn't think first world countries have data caps because most of the second and third world don't.
I thought that the free market was supposed to ensure the best of everything so why is it the king of capitalism, America, always has the shittiest infrastructure?
>>41372
>telecommunications and internet aren't a heavily regulated industry
>America isn't a big place
>>41357
>>But Cox and AT&T (T, Tech30) U-Verse do have caps that are similar to Comcast. Both of those companies have caps that begin at 150 GB. Smaller providers, like MediaCom and Suddenlink, also have caps.
How in the fuck can the justify that in this day and age?
>>41357
>cox has data caps
not they don't.
>>41392
It might be like Comcast where only a certain percentage of their customers have caps. According to the article only 12% have caps.
>>41392
>>41396
I have cox and I hit their "data cap" a couple times. They say they have a data cap, and send you angry emails if you go over it, but they don't enforce it. They don't charge you or throttle your Internet at all, so I dunno why they even say they have a cap.
They even say on their website faq that they aren't enforcing data caps.
>>41385
Irrelevant and irrelevant. There is no defending it.
>>41356
>data caps of any kind
>Land of the Free, Home of the Brave
Fuck, man, just fuck.
>>41480
>calls it an "unlimited" plan
>has datacaps
This is how it is for most American smartphones, Anon. Nobody complains in appreciable numbers so they think it's a legitimate way to do business.
>>41483
Just had a conversation with my mom about her phone plan. I could get in Italy what she gets in the US for a fourth of the price. Scary.
>tfw my internet is 1.4Mbps
>I still manage about 200GB of Internet usage per month
If I had actual broadband I'd be crunching that bandwidth.
Also, we only pay $10 per month to uncap our internet, otherwise we'd only get 140GB a month
>>41441
>irrelevant
Nice try, fag. America isn't as free as you think.
I pay 65 a month, it's not cable, but it does 4g LTE unlimited data. Truly unlimited. They won't even throttle it. Metro PCS. It's not wifi fast but it is fast.
>>41506
>internet is 1.4Mbps
What year is this? Who is president?
>>41561
I'm not a burgerblob, you twat. There is no defending such a shitty service, it is 2016 people.
>>41356
i'm gonna be upset when this rolls out to my area. last month my roommates and i used over 5TB of bandwidth
>>42676
let me guess, movies and porn.
Fuck, I'm staying with my folks overseas while I do online uni and I've always lived overseas, I'm fucking terrified of whatever third world internet I'll have to pay way too much for when I get back to the states. How do you dumb cucks put up with datacaps and paying ten times as much for a tenth of the speed that most first world countries get?
>>42678
>How do you dumb cucks put up with datacaps and paying ten times as much for a tenth of the speed that most first world countries get?
Nobody complains because nobody thinks it will accomplish anything. Nobody wants to sit around on hold on the phone with a customer service rep just to be told what the corporate policy is and to go read their signup contracts again.
meanwhile in Korea 1,000GB/s $15 a month
>>42681
So much for the free market.
>>44003
Within a highly developed and densely populated city.
Fuck you guys are thick as pig shit
Yall fuckers dont know Jews until you pay for 3mb/s but only get 300kb/s and there's nothing you can do about it because theyre the only ISP that hits your home. Fuck Verizon.
>>44009
Sounds like you're paying for 3mb broadband and getting the expected speed
>>41406
It more so to take stress off the systems and therefore work less. When I was with Verizon they did the same thing, but in their defense I did download a bunch of game torrents the night before.
>>41356
>be an american
>have a data cap on internet use
>get cucked from provider
poor you
>>44016
i chuckled
>>44067
I understand why to have a cap in general. I just don't understand why they have it if they won't enforce it.
I'm in atlanta and I believe we were one of the first to get the 300GB caps, does this mean we're now switched 1TB?
>>44009
You need to learn about megabytes and megabits.
Providers mostly advertise with megabits and you are probably seeing megabytes on your speed test.
Know the difference
I sometimes use that in a day
>>44916
I'm not him, but you're kind of wrong. I work as a software engineer, and I literally make my living ensuring that a certain system transmits data at a minimum rate. I know the difference between a byte and a bit. I also know that the big, bold number in my ISP's advertisements is not what I experience, and that there's no accountability whatsoever because the contract actually says ᵘᵖ ᵗᵒ.
>tfw brighthouse
I live in Chattanooga we don't have a cap.
>>44009
This is basically what Bloom Telecom and Comcast do as well.
I hear in Canada it's even worse. Fuckers rolled out "FiberOp" which you would think stands for "Fiber Optic" but actually stands for "DSL speeds at four times the price, we're not updating infrastructure". Seriously, they didn't even PRETEND to lay down any fiber optic cable.
