Another step in the wrong direction.
While on the surface this looks like a useful tool, is really an excuse for Comcast to charge you “overage” fees we have all come to know and dread from our cell phone bills.
Comcast is playing dirty by capping the amount of data you are allowed to download on what they advertise as “unlimited” high-speed Internet access. There is, in fact, a limit to how much you can download per month; it is not unlimited.
This little tool—which almost no one who downloads that much data will ever use—will let them sock huge fees to those people who are their heaviest users, or simply disconnect them with a snide, “You should have kept a better eye on your usage.”
There are those who think this is their first step in the dismantling of Net Neutrality, and I am among them. Where this may ultimately lead is Comcast (and all the other ISP’s) charging extra fees for you to download large files, especially HD movies and streaming HD TV.
It’s really just all a part of their way of trying to prevent the Internet from causing people to stop forking over $100-$200 per month for their poor-quality TV service. If you can watch your favorite shows and movies in HD whenever you want over the Internet without having to pay a cable bill, it would be foolish to continue subscribing. Since an HD movie takes 2-20GB to download, you could hit that cap in as little as 12 movies per month.
Shame on you, Comcast.
READ THIS and educate yourself as to what these dishonest companies are in the process of doing. If we don’t stop them, we will have no one to blame but ourselves when cable companies treat us as badly as the wireless carriers do.
