Hey wait a minute! "Customers who top 250 GB in a month twice in a six-month timeframe could have service terminated for a year" implies that you've done something wrong. Why not charge the heavy users more maney? Is'nt that the bottom line of any business? MONEY
Warren Brown -------------- Original message from P S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -------------- > This is indeed OT, not that that stops anyone on this group :-) . The > real killer here is that Comcrap doesn't provide any way to measure > your usage -- so now we'll have Yet Another category of software we > have to buy for a stupid reason (to go with antivirus and antispam): > bandwidth measurement. > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Lizette Koehler > wrote: > > Well it looks like it has started. The internet ISPs are having a hard time > > providing service with the use of the internet. > > > > > > Full article here: > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080829/wr_nm/comcast_internet_dc > > > > > > Comcast Corp, the largest U.S. cable operator, said on Thursday it will cap > > customers' Internet usage starting October 1, in a bid to ensure the best > > service for the vast majority of its subscribers. > > > > Comcast said it was setting a monthly data usage threshold of 250 gigabytes > > per account for all residential high-speed Internet customers, or the > > equivalent of 50 million e-mails or 124 standard-definition movies. > > > > "If a customer exceeds more than 250 GB and is one of the heaviest data > > users who consume the most data on our high-speed Internet service, he or > > she may receive a call from Comcast's Customer Security Assurance (CSA) > > group to notify them of excessive use," according to the company's updated > > Frequently Asked Questions on Excessive Use. > > > > Customers who top 250 GB in a month twice in a six-month timeframe could > > have service terminated for a year. > > > > > > > > Lizette > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
