Comcast XFINITY → Re: [Caps] Comcast testing at least two different cap plans

You're not willing to put your money where your mouth is. If you want to do it your way make 100% of users on per byte billing! That way the most users who only use less than 10GB per month will only have to pay $10 per month for internet. And the users who use a ton of data will pay more! But no, like the big companies, you want to continue charging everyone $60+ a month (even if a user only uses 1GB or less a month) so you keep the cash cow running. As I said before you want to have your cake and eat it to.

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If you have worked on the business side of any service, or take some basic business/economics classes you would understand in most service industries there is a base amount which covers most of the fixed elements of the business (facilities, infrastructure, engineering, maintenance, call centers, etc.) Then there is an attempt to simplify a billing model that is easy to understand and covers the majority of the customers.

One could create tiers (as others have mentioned) which could more evenly spread these costs out, but the reality is the 1% is WAY OUT THERE and so far removed from the rest of the pack.

Lol, you're a trip. I agree with you on some points but apparently businesses today don't. Why is FPL (power company) trying to charge their customers extra to change utility poles which are serviced by them to begin with and are included in our service plans for electric? Why does Sprint charge me extra for their headquarters loan on the building? Why does ATT charge a new admin fee. A lot of companies no longer see fit to include operating costs in the price of service, many want to add a surcharge. Years ago companies couldn't get away with stuff like this. And I know a thing or two about economics but you simply want punish heavy users. For years Comcast used to advertise unlimited internet and then disconnect heavy users. So don't tell me they don't scam us. It wasn't until they were sued that they stopped, same with the throttling! I agree 100% with the last user that posted, as I would be willing to pay more but not be punished. Comcast's caps are way under the standard anyway, 350GB is not enough for a family or even two people (see my example in a previous post). So make the caps fair and I'll be happy to pay higher.

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The data says otherwise. Read my post (and the URL) which contains actual measured national data (not examples).

And FWIW, I am a "heavy user" (and subscribe to a higher tier), but I define that in the top 9%. The 1% usage is off the charts (literally).

I'm sorry bro I read the whole report and I don't believe most of it at all. The actual vs advertised speeds look about right though. My government overpays for everything and can't get any accounting right and I'm going to rely on them to gauge the state of broadband in America. No thank you. I told you the estimates for a large family and internet usage and I believe the curve on the chart you posted is far too low. Just like the Netflix charts that changed to favor Open Connect network members and punish non members. Internet consumption is growing at a rapid rate and I think in a year or two the caps that are normal now will be obsolete (most already are). 300GB is not enough, as I already explained and it limits new technologies. Just the way I see it IMHO. LOL, no hard feelings yt but you're citing the same government that spends $640 on a toilet seat and $18 million on the website to track stimulus money! Lol, $18 million for a website that was created to help other people get jobs! So I'm sorry but I don't trust their data and I know they will skew the data to get what they want or show an idea going their way.

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