Paying more for Internet usage over a certain amount — having a “data cap,” in common parlance — will soon be universal for Comcast users, company executives predict.
Speaking on a call with investors Wednesday, Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen said, “I would predict that in five years Comcast at least would have a usage-based billing model rolled out across its footprint.”
Data caps are already the norm for Comcast users in Huntsville and Mobile, Alabama; Atlanta, Augusta and Savannah, Georgia; central Kentucky; Maine; Jackson, Mississippi; Knoxville and Memphis, Tennesse; and Charleston, South Carolina.
In those locations, the typical user gets 300 gigabytes per month of data, after which they’re billed an additional $10 for every additional 50 gigabytes of data they use.
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24 comments:
This is outrageous. Comcast is already high as hell, especially if one has a bundle system. I feel sorry for citizens who live in cities who internet provider is only Comcast. Which is the case for small towns.
Comcast is a huge donor to the Obama administration so they have bought their way to what ever they want to do.
It's all about taxing it or fee-ing it!
They are doing it because people have gotten smart and dropped cable because the cable became to expensive. More people are streaming their tv over the internet.
How about they do it for the cable tv. SInce we work, we don't have to pay for the daytime viewing.
Its all about the money
5% of 18 million internet customers is 900,000 customers.
Let's see how happy those people are after the cuts.
Cable should be pay-per-hour.
and the biggest joke is you have no way of proving you did or did not go over your allotted quota of usage.
They can charge you what ever they way and you have to pay it.
Prove you did not use it.
@ 5:28 PM
Actually there is a way to prove it. Log the IP traffic into your computer from the internet.
I don't understand why people are getting their panties all twisted up over this. The more miles you drive the more fuel you will have to buy. The more electric you consume the higher your electric bill will be. The more groceries you put into your shopping cart the more you will pay at cash register.
@ 6:45 since it don't seem to bother you, then you can pay for mine.
6:45 yea let me know how that works out for you when you are in a fight with them over your bill.
They aren't rated one of the worst companies in american for no reason.
If I could pay for the channels I want and not 100's of worthless crap programming I would say you have a valid argument.
But see when I drive my car it is my choice where I go.
When I buy cable they shove crap at you and you have no choice but to pay for it.
It is also double dipping when you choose to pay and watch a movie on line with them and then pay again for your gigabytes.
So no John, there is no proof on the customers side, but nice try.
Anonymous said...
Cable should be pay-per-hour.
May 17, 2014 at 4:57 PM
You are an IDIOT!!
I think it's high time to complain to the Salisbury City Council and the Wicomico County Council. Tell them to start bidding out for cable/internet service for the community. They have been ripping off the citizens for years by allowing Comcast the only franchise to choose from.
Well how is that going to affect Jimbeau's free internet for downtown Salisbury?
I got one of those Comcast surveys the city sent out and I wrote in marker - MONOPOLY - on it.
They don't give a shitz what we think, its simply a time and money wasted obligation to send that out, because they have already decided to do nothing and continue on with the same old same old.
Cable should be pay-per-hour.
May 17, 2014 at 4:57 PM
You are an IDIOT!!
May 17, 2014 at 8:49 PM
Maybe that person isn't the idiot you think. I would like a cable plan that charged me for only the time I watched. That might not be the one someone would choose if they watch ten hours a day, but for me, watching maybe 2 hours a day it doesn't make sense to pay $$$ per month for a load of things I'll never watch or hours I'll never use.
Would I pay 50 cents per hour if I could tailor my viewing? Probably. The cable company gets $20 it didn't have before for the 40 hours I used and I get only what I want.
@7:48 PM, 7:58 PM
I am not a Comcast subscriber. I have no need to have redundant internet connection. I do not watch enough television to justify having cable TV or to have access to streaming video.
I never quite understood why people get so excited about paying for content that isn't good enough to be shown on advertiser supported TV.
12:49 did you have a point? because I am not seeing one. Your response makes no sense as a reply to either poster.
Are you now answering those voices in your head out loud?
Anonymous said...
@7:48 PM, 7:58 PM
I am not a Comcast subscriber. I have no need to have redundant internet connection. I do not watch enough television to justify having cable TV or to have access to streaming video.
I never quite understood why people get so excited about paying for content that isn't good enough to be shown on advertiser supported TV.
May 18, 2014 at 12:49 PM
Huh?
so they have a Monopoly .. and pay off Politicos to get the ability to maintain it..
Progressive America..funnel the cash to finance the Election fraud..and reap the benefits
I watch 9 channels. I pay for over 200. And I'm on Direct. Dish isn't that much different, but at least I'm able to shop where I want, or not buy at all. My daughter does Hulu.
In general, TV sucks. There is very little worth watching.
However, the public comment period on this issue is still open, as I hear, and giving us garbage while Big Business gets to stomp us off the net is totally off the table, and the FCC needs to butt the heck out!
Get out there and comment against this move!
Fairly soon ol' Comcast may not be the game in town...I see AT&T is bidding on DirecTv???? This could open another whole realm of possibilities for TV watching!!
cut the cord!
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