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Comcast to Cap Data Transfers at 250 GB in Oct.
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Comcast has confirmed that all residential customers will be subject to a 250 gigabyte per month data limit starting October 1.
“This is the same system we have in place today,” Comcast wrote in an amendment to its acceptable use policy. “The only difference is that we will now provide a limit by which a customer may be contacted.”
The cable provider insisted that 250 GB is “an extremely large amount of data, much more than a typical residential customer uses on a monthly basis.”
Actually, no, it isn’t an “extremely large amount of data”. It’s about one HD movie per day, and that makes this simply an attempt to cut off services like iTunes and Amazon Unbox, which are increasingly competing with Comcast in the “making content available” business.
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