6 hours ago by arturo56k

Comcast, el principal operador de banda ancha por cable de Estados Unidos, aseguró ayer que limitará el uso que los clientes pueden hacer de Internet a partir del 1 de octubre en un intento, segn la compañía, de asegurar el mejor servicio para la gran mayoría de los suscriptores. http://www.elpais.c ...

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7 hours ago by Bouche

Please feel free to shove your weighty boot knee high up comasts ass until they cry uncle. If they're going to treat you like a decrepit, toothless lion, we welcome you stripping them down to a sliver for charging a premium price for a service they obviously don't want people to take advantage of. G ...

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8 hours ago by Joshua Topolsky

Filed under: Industry, Cable You hear so much tough-talk and blustery grand-standing these days over data capping that it's hard to take any of it too seriously. A recent announcement by Comcast, however, is sending chills down the collective spine of Engadget (and seriously threatening to put a cru ...

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9 hours ago by MikeR

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9 hours ago by Technology Expert

On Thursday Comcast announced a 250 GB cap for their broadband service. I applauded the fact that they finally gave some transparency to their "hidden" cap, which had always snagged a few users, without telling them exactly how much their use should be, but then I realized: where's the meter? Time-W ...

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10 hours ago by admin

In the latest move to rein in the heaviest users of the Internet, Comcast Corp. announced a cap on the amount of data its customers can download. Starting Oct. 1, residential high-speed Internet customers will be limited to 250 gigabytes of traffic per month. Typical customers use between two gigaby ...

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13 hours ago by Guillermo Wolf

According with DSL Reports Comcast will institute a 250 GB cap on its broadband connections starting Oct. 1. Expect other carriers to follow suit and make tiered broadband a reality. Comcast’s arguments about infrastructure and bandwidth costs. Much as I would like to think otherwise, this is the en ...

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14 hours ago by Mark Adams

Remember the days of 47kb? A 3mb download would take nearly an hour to complete. Experts knew then that for the Internet to grow, so too would its capacity. Well it has, and it hasn’t. More households have high-speed Internet than ever, and greater quantities of digital media are being distributed, ...

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14 hours ago by Betsy Schiffman

Comcast's introduction of usage caps yesterday points to what could become inevitable across the industry -- restricted, metered broadband services. Under the company's amended policy, users who exceed 250 GB of data per month could get a call from Comcast asking them to curb their usage. Some ISPs ...

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15 hours ago by Mark Hefflinger

New York - Comcast (NASD: CMCSA), the nation's largest cable TV provider and second-largest broadband ISP, announced this week that it will set a 250GB per month bandwidth cap for its high-speed Internet subscribers, and suspend the accounts of second-time offenders for an entire year. The company n ...

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