said by Klarth:I think you're giving them too much credit.
+1
If this was really about reducing impact on other users...
"We have a small subset of customers that are using a very large portion of the available bandwidth, which can have a negative impact on the other internet users in the surrounding area," says a Mediacom employee in our forums reading from a script. "By curbing this behavior, other customers can benefit with faster speeds."
... they would have gone to tiered throttling.
Heavy downloader hits ___GB, throttle to 75%. Next ___GB, throttle to 50%. And so forth, until they're down to a couple of Mbps.
Just follow the money trail. It's more profitable to bill for overages than throttle down heavy users.