On 29 Aug 2008 06:02:58 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lizette Koehler) wrote: >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.
When Comcast first came out with internet service, they had a plan for @home and for @work. I never saw an @work address, and the @home people are not @comcast. While most internet users won't be near the 250 gigabyte equivalent, there certainly is a market of people want movies on demand. Some of these want it to their computer, others to their TV. If you buy your pay-per-view movie from Comcast - will they count it as part of their 250 gigabytes? Qwest is advertising "Discover new Fiber-Optic <i>Fast</i> Internet - connection speeds up to 20 Mbps, combined with DIRECTTV Service. Competition rules, and technology cost Comcast monopolies it paid good money to the politicians to get. Businesses need reliability more than anything else, but even small businesses need speed. If they use that kind of bandwidth, they would be willing to pay more. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
