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Re: Statistics are fun said by funchords:Not quite. With a 250 GB monthly limit, Comcast's service has a capacity of about 750 Kbps. Now you're mixing data RATE and CAPACITY. The article was about RATE, not CAPACITY. My comment was about RATE, not CAPACITY.
said by funchords:TWC users are getting warning calls for 40 GB/wk usages. That makes them even cheaper quality (more expensive) than Comcast. These "warning calls" and caps DO NOT physically affects data RATE, so it doesn't make any difference in this situation which is not about CAPACITY.
said by funchords:No, they're all overcharging. The last paragraph of the article linked above says, "However, prices in the U.S. have been relatively flat, which Johnson blames on local markets that are still monopolies or duopolies." Prices are flat but data RATES are going up, so cost per bit is dropping same as the rest of the world. Below worldwide average costs for the higher cable data RATES, in fact. | |
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kudos:5 | said by RR User :said by funchords:Not quite. With a 250 GB monthly limit, Comcast's service has a capacity of about 750 Kbps. Now you're mixing data RATE and CAPACITY. The article was about RATE, not CAPACITY. My comment was about RATE, not CAPACITY. 1 Mbps is both a rate and a capacity.
250 GB/mo is also both a rate and a capacity. Sure, it may be managed manually rather than by physical technical limits, but it's a rate and capacity none-the-less.
(That said, the article and the report are silent as to whether any of the services considers are capped -- and they probably are. The point is probably yours, but it also means that the report itself is less meaningful.)
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