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The Comcast pipe is closing up

Posted by Chris under Broadband, Comcast

So Comcast has now announced that they are going to, as of October 1, restrict monthly data usage to a 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.

As they say, “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.

And I pity the fool who exceeds 250 GB in a month twice in a six-month timeframe as they could have their service terminated for a year.

Although maybe it’s not all bad as what you could get else where as it’s far above what other ISP’s are looking at. Cox Communications’ monthly caps vary from 5 gigabytes to 75 gigabytes depending the subscriber’s plan. Time Warner Cable Inc. is testing caps between 5 gigabytes and 40 gigabytes in one market. Frontier Communications Co., a phone company, plans to start charging extra for use of more than 5 gigabytes per month.