said by jsbthree:
But my question still stands. Is this legal? The restraint of trade implications are very real given the business reliance more and more on direct downloads of relatively big files.
Sadly, I don't see how this is illegal. Ethical? Assuredly not. Deceptive? Perhaps, though it was listed in the TOS/AUP... doens't mean it isn't slimy. Technically, they provided you with everything you needed to see, in order to determine if their service met your business standards (keyword: technically), so I can't say its illegal,
per se.
Just because the standard for business class service is higher than Comcast's offerings doens't mean its wrong. They're wrong FOR offering it as a corporate solution, though, if they are deluded enough to believe that a business won't use their service to the fullest.
I'm certainly no lawyer, but I don't think that you're approaching this from the right angle. It was all there in the contracts, figuratively speaking. Its how they present it that has the real issue. It certainly IS a solution for SOME businesses... just not ones that use the internet, it would seem =)