Comcast has been cutting off customers taking up a lot of bandwidth already. It looks like they are now announcing it publicly.
Sounds like a bad move to me. If they are known for limited access and how easily you can get fucked people may start switching to dsl or some other service. There's lots of ways you could get fucked by limited bandwidth. Someone leaching wifi(easily cracked), family and friends downloading, streaming large vids and not checking bandwidth used, etc etc.
Comcast made some statement some time ago that only 5% of their customers use up 50% of the network resources. So they are trying to stop them or get rid of them it looks like. But what happens when the average joe goes over once or twice? He's going to be pissed and look elsewhere for service. People don't want to monitor their bandwidth.
Seems kind of risky for them too. When broadband came out there was sort of a war between dsl and cable internet access. Most people picked cable over dsl, dsl had all sorts of issues back then but not these days...
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