Comcast: New Cap Not 'Set In Stone' New cap goes live one week from today...
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-New-Cap-Not-Set-In-Stone-97958 Comcast's new 250GB monthly cap goes into effect one week from today, though customers have not yet been given an officially sanctioned consumption tracking tool. An article at GigaOM quotes Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas as saying the limits aren't set in stone, and could rise once DOCSIS 3.0 gets deployed. The piece goes on to suggest that continual and vocal user complaints could also force the cap upward. That’s a hopeful sign, but Comcast has never been entirely truthful about these things in the past, and only they know how much data their subscribers consume — making it hard to hold the company accountable. The other way to get the cap increased — or perhaps eliminated altogether — is to get enough Comcast users to complain. Keep in mind that the people complaining are a minority portion of the company's nearly fifteen million subscribers. The company can literally afford to ignore this small but vocal subset of customers -- particularly if they reside in non-competitive markets and cannot vote with their wallets. Our users had been complaining about Comcast's glass consumption ceiling for more than half a decade before things changed. Only last month was Comcast forced to come clean, paying a $150,000 settlement to Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum. McCollum apparently had problems with Comcast terminating customers for hitting an invisible limit without telling anyone what that limit was (go figure). Now that the cap is clearly laid out to consumers, there's absolutely no legal motivation to raise or eliminate the cap. It's likely that the only thing that could make that cap move is a surge in median HD bandwidth consumption, and anti-competitive charges being brought against Comcast for inhibiting the use of third-party HD delivery networks. In this climate, with this high of a cap, that's unlikely. A show of hands: does anybody expect Comcast's cap to go up with DOCSIS upgrades or alternative HD delivery demand? Do you think it will ever go down? ******************************* * POST TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ******************************* Medianews mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
