Comcast mulls capping punters
8 May 2008 | 05:18 BST
If the cap fits you will just have to wear it
CABLE OUTFIT COMCAST is thinking about capping subscribers' bandwidth to 250 gigabytes a month.
According to a Deep Throat within the outfit, Comcast plans to charge punters $15 for every 10 gigabytes they use above the cap.
It will be following the lead of Time Warner Cable which is also thinking about doing something similar.
To be fair, capping at that level will not hurt that many people. You have to be doing some fairly serious daily downloading to need that much. You would be talking about downloading two HD movies a day or about 3,000 MP3 albums a month.
Alleyinsider.com said that its sources thought that it will only hurt about 14,000 of Comcast’s subscribers. It has 14 million of them.
However, if the cap stays at that level for too long, and HD Web Video becomes more mainstream, more people are going to find that 250 gigabytes is not enough. µ
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