Comcast to Limit Usage to 250GB/mo

Yikes!

The part that's scary is that they will suspend your service for up to a year if you happen to exceed the limit.

WHAT?! Note to Comcast... this is America. You CHARGE if we go over the limit. What are you, the high school principal?

The new bandwidth cap will affect less than 1 percent of Comcast customers, Douglas said. Those customers "are using so much bandwidth that they are degrading the experience of other users," he added. "Two-hundred-and-fifty gigabytes is an extremely large amount of data."

Some high-bandwidth users have asked Comcast to identify a specific cap so they know where the line is, Douglas added. Some other broadband providers also warn customers about excessive bandwidth use.

An average Comcast customer uses two to three gigabytes of bandwidth a month, Comcast said. To reach the 250G-byte limit, a customer would have to do one of the following: send 50 million e-mails, download 62,500 songs or download 125 standard-definition movies, the company said in its announcement.

(Hat tip: PC World)
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I'm reeling.

More on this to come.
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