On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:23:51 -0600, Howard Brazee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 29 Aug 2008 09:53:40 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Warren Brown) wrote: > >>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 > >Probably because they need to upgrade their infrastructure to handle >it. They want that bandwidth for the more lucrative pay-per-view. > According information I came accross on another web site, a customer who goes over the limit may be charged $15 for each 10 Gigabytes that they go over the 250 GB. (This was ommitted from the original announcement.) The median Comcast user uses 2 to 3 GB, so 250 GB is extreme. Most users come nowhere close to the 250 GB usage. According to Comcast, a user could download 125 movies (about 4 a day) without going over the limit. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
