 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
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kudos:12 | Yep... business as usual This is not surprising at all and exactly what most people thought was going on.
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said by Matt:This is not surprising at all and exactly what most people thought was going on. And the "WE THE PEOPLE" crowd are now getting what they demanded - an announced & marketed hard cap. And instead of 1,000/mo of the very worst abusers getting booted, Comcast gets to boot many many more within a couple months of Oct 1(new rules give an extra 30 days beyond 1st month before termination). So say around Dec 1 or thereabouts, we can start reading all the woeful stories about how "I was not an abuser, but just an advanced user backing up my terabytes of disk storage".
Moral of story: "Beware of what you wish for - you may get it."
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 hopeflickerCapitalism breeds greedPremium
join:2003-04-03
Long Beach, CA
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1 edit | said by fAcEtIOUs:said by Matt:This is not surprising at all and exactly what most people thought was going on. And the "WE THE PEOPLE" crowd are now getting what they demanded - an announced & marketed hard cap. And instead of 1,000/mo of the very worst abusers getting booted, Comcast gets to boot many many more within a couple months of Oct 1(new rules give an extra 30 days beyond 1st month before termination). So say around Dec 1 or thereabouts, we can start reading all the woeful stories about how "I was not an abuser, but just an advanced user backing up my terabytes of disk storage". Moral of story: "Be honest with your customers in the first place." fixed for YOU
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Yes Tom, it's consumers who demand clarity and accountability that are the problem. Clearly.  |
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said by Karl Bode:Yes Tom, it's consumers who demand clarity and accountability that are the problem. Clearly. It wasn't the average consumer demanding it. They weren't affected and were not aware of any problem. It was the well above average abusers demanding the clarification and a hard cap. Well now they get to pay for what they wanted and got.
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 JTRockvilleData HoPremium,MVM
join:2002-01-28
Rockville, MD | reply to fAcEtIOUs
No one I've seen ever demanded a cap. The plea was, that IF there is a cap, it shouldn't be super-secret. |
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no they need to expand to new customers first before they add more speed and bandwidth to currant customer's.using more than 250 GB is completely ridiculous.they ought to just cut you off
all i get is 200mb a day if that's all you had you would appreciate the 250 cap |
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join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
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Re: Yep... business as usual said by fAcEtIOUs:And instead of 1,000/mo of the very worst abusers getting booted, Comcast gets to boot many many more No. You've got it wrong.
Read both the Comcast website and the Florida agreement and then you'll see that it's BOTH, not either/or.
The language in the Florida AG settlement document is2. Comcast may continue to notify any residential high speed Internet service subscriber whose bandwidth usage use exceeds the Threshold (as determined by Comcast in its sole discretion) that the subscriber's service may be, or will be, terminated as the result of excessive use. However, no residential high speed Internet service subscriber shall be notified of a breach of Comcast's excessive use restrictions unless the subscriber's bandwidth usage exceeds the previously disclosed Threshold. The "top users" language from the Comcast page: This is the same system we have in place today. The only difference is that we will now provide a limit by which a customer may be contacted. As part of our pre-existing policy, we will continue to contact the top users of our high-speed Internet service and ask them to curb their usage. If a customer uses more than 250 GB and is one of the top users of our service, he or she may be contacted by Comcast to notify them of excessive use. At that time, we'll tell them exactly how much data per month they had used. We know from experience the vast majority of customers we ask to curb usage do so voluntarily. --
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 badtripI heart the East BayPremium
join:2004-03-20
Albany, CA | reply to fAcEtIOUs
said by fAcEtIOUs:So say around Dec 1 or thereabouts, we can start reading all the woeful stories about how "I was not an abuser, but just an advanced user backing up my terabytes of disk storage". Although you are being somewhat sarcastic, that is truly what we will start seeing. I have no idea how much bandwidth my household uses but I can tell you its probably alot with 3 ppl , two who telecommute and a teenager.
If the company I work for treated it's customers with the same contempt that Comcast treats their customers, we'd be out of business fast. Lucky for Comcast they have a near monopoly and don't have to worry about "satisfied customers". |
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said by fAcEtIOUs:said by Karl Bode:Yes Tom, it's consumers who demand clarity and accountability that are the problem. Clearly. It wasn't the average consumer demanding it. They weren't affected and were not aware of any problem. It was the well above average abusers demanding the clarification and a hard cap. Well now they get to pay for what they wanted and got. i disagree. I think the above average users were complaining because some were getting access stopped on their "unlimited" contract. While this is clearly a case of "be careful what you wish for", Comcrap was wrong for selling unlimited contracts to people when they had no plans for a truly "unlimited" access.
I also think that this is just an excuse to introduce metered billing. With applications changing and becoming bigger in size, this is the new business model for the telcos/cablecos.
Now maybe if we had a politician paying attention to this, maybe regulations can produce what "competition" clearly is not....a decent broadband policy! |
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said by S_engineer:Now maybe if we had a politician paying attention to this, maybe regulations can produce what "competition" clearly is not....a decent broadband policy! The end result of what you are suggesting is not just regulation of TOS & transparency, but price controls. Because if that isn't part of the regulations, then the service providers will just raise prices to cover the costs of all the other regulations. And then the real whining to the politicians will commence.
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NOZIREV
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what is a "a decent broadband policy!" in your eyes just curious since you seem to be a fairly intelligent human being? 25 TB's for 42.95$??
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It wasn't the average consumer demanding it. They weren't affected and were not aware of any problem. It was the well above average abusers demanding the clarification and a hard cap. A strawman point and completely irrelevant. A significant number of customers, the Florida Attorney General and the FCC have proven Comcast was lying to customers, yet here you are, claiming whatever happens is those customers fault for .... what .... demanding honesty?
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join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
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said by csiemers:It always amazes me how some people want to dictate how I use my connection! I'm the one paying for it, NOT YOU! Until you start using more than the break-even amount of bandwidth on shared infrastructure. Than my bill starts to go to subsidize your usage.
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said by fAcEtIOUs: then the service providers will just raise prices to cover the costs of all the other regulations. And then the real whining to the politicians will commence. This company will raise the rates anyway. Do you actually think it won't be the customers paying this fine ?
If unchecked, these abuses will continue and when caught, The AG might as well just fine the customer. |
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