Comcast Usage Cap In place.

[Fish]

Their 99 deal for phone, internet, and TV only lasts so long and then you get jacked in the ass, like I did. I now pay $199 a month. I called and said WTF, they said it was a promo that ended. I said I was shutting it off then. They said go ahead.

Fuck em. Killed the phone, and in october, Im killing the service all together.

[Steamer]

I would personally shut them off and go to another ISP, BUT, they have monopolized my area and I have no other option. FiOS is slowly making its way to my area but they have yet to put in a bid. The state gov likes to monopolize certain areas as I suppose they get a kickback of the procedes. Something needs to be done yet no one has the power to do so... As shown by the FCC fiasco.

It's sad to say but I doubt anything is gonna happen to the cap and it shows just how much one company can control an area and fuck you straight up the ass. It's all about gettig the most profit off of the netwrok they refuse to upgrade untill it finally begins breaking down. I mean they tested DOCSIS 3 fine and even rolled it out in a few areas (50mb/5mb @ 150$ [ridiculous]).... they could make things so much cheaper with less congestion and more reliability at the same speeds they offer now uncapped. They say 20% of their market will be upgraded to DOCSIS 3 by 2008 and the rest by 2010. I bet we wont see any droped prices! More likely increased cost and or finished Protocol Agnostic Monitoring WITH the Caps and extra throttleing.

What the hell is the point of me buying an unlimited HS connection if i'm just gonna be slowed down by the monitoring and capped? They add caps and slowdowns then they should come up with some more pricing plans. When the hell are US ISP's gonna get more like some of the good ones in European Countrys / Japan. Greedy F'ing Monopolizing Pigs....

What are they trying to do? Stop competition with their video service?

Next up in the line of marketing.... Comcast Has contracted Netflix to not count as bandwidth Usage, or Pay only 5$ more for Unlimited Netflix Steaming. Of course these companys get a kickback for helping subscriber to subscribe to Comcast ISP... Pretty bad eh?

[ZERO]

It also thus created oligopolies that should be illegal!

[Steamer]

Hasn't happend yet but I have no doubt that it will. They will always find a way out of the things they do as they always have done in the past. It isn't right for a company to have that kind of power yet no one stops them. Microsoft, Comcast, Verizon, Ect, Ect...

[darkfire313]

anyone know if At&t has something like this in affect?

[Steamer]

They have a cap on there wireless boradban already, I heard rumors of them thinking about placing one but IDK. Knowing AT&T it wont be long before they follow in everyone elses footsteps.

On a side note, The FCC has plans to auction off a 25MHz piece of the Advanced Wireless Service spectrum and has found no interference. I guess we wont be getting free wireless internet after all, you know damn well some greedy company will prevent it like T-Mobile is trying to do along with many others.

[dutch]

The worst part about this is that Comcast and the like own these politicians. They donate gigantic amounts of money to their campaigns to get the laws they want passed. The laws they want passed make them legal monopolies. There is practically nothing we can do about it short of voting for someone else that isn't in the telecom's pockets.

Unfortunately nobody cares enough about this for it to be a major issue for most politicians. This will go largely unnoticed by most of the population. The only hope we have is that the telecoms start fucking up so badly it leads to widespread complaints on a whole lot of politician's desks, or that the IT industry suffers enough to warrant some serious complaints.

Basically the long and the short: we're fucked.