Comcast to Customers, watch you diet...
Comcast announced that beginning October 1st. it will be monitoring user traffic to ensure that individuals do not download more then 250GB of data per month, users who exceed that quota will be subject to having their accounts suspended. The move by one of the largest U.S. cable companies is aimed at limiting heavy stress on their network.
While 250GB of data is rather large by most consumer use standards, there is a trend amongst some cable companies towards pricing per data usage or traffic limits, as in the case of Comcast.
As we are currently stuck with Verizon Avenue (mandated within our community complex) a sub-standard sister company of Verizon, I am keenly aware of others on the shared network who hog bandwidth and am happy when the network boots them off.
As long as the company clearly articulates their policy then consumers are free to act within a known framework. Comcast got into a public relations problem last year when they cut off some users based on an unannounced limit for usage.
