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Comcast paused all its data caps among other things due to Covid https://corporate.comcast.com/covid-19 https://corporate.comcast.com/covid-19 Maybe Covid rest
by meroes 6y ago
Comcast paused all its data caps among other things due to Covid https://corporate.comcast.com/covid-19 https://corporate.comcast.com/covid-19
Maybe Covid restrained other ISP actions we would have otherwise seen
- ericbarrett 6y agoThey’ve restored them now; I got a notice last month. Two person household with one TV and one PC and a couple phones, no torrenting or anything.
- coldpie 6y agoOf course, Comcast's own OTT services are exempt from the data cap. What a coincidence :)
- jedberg 6y agoAnd a net neutrality violation. Maybe CA customers won't be subject to the cap anymore? Or maybe they'll force Comcast to include their own traffic in the cap?
- OkayPhysicist 6y agoAlmost certainly the latter. Data caps are still legal, from my understanding.
- jedberg 6y agoYes, the caps are legal, but counting some data towards the caps and other data not towards it is what's illegal. The question is will Comcast hamstring their own streaming service by counting in the cap, or just get rid of the cap?
- boring_twenties 6y agoWait, you were uncapped until just last month? In my area the cap was only removed for 3 months total. They did generously raise it from 1TB to 1.2, though.
- ihumanable 6y agoIt's interesting, the ISPs argument for capping data generally gives some nod to congestion / traffic control. Covid hit and you would imagine that with distance learning, work from home, increased use of streaming services for entertainment, etc, that the traffic would only increase. Comcast (and others) realized the PR nightmare that it would cause to keep the caps in this situation, but it seriously undermines their congestion argument.