Comcast is going to test new metered bandwidth plans, with a boost in the basic usage cap from 250 Gbytes a month up to 300 Gbytes a month, with incremental changes for consumption above the cap.
The 300 GByte usage allotment will be tested for Internet Essentials, Economy, and Performance tiers, with additional gigabytes costing$10 for 50 GBytes, Comcast says.
In markets where Comcast is not trialing the new plans, Comcast will suspend enforcement of its current usage cap.
To be sure, streaming media providers would prefer to have no caps at all. Netflix is an example.
But the new plans will strike many as a fair way to allow users to make their own choices about how much bandwidth they want to consume, while still allowing Comcast to better match consumption to its costs of providing bandwidth.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Comcast to Boost Bandwidth Cap to 300 Gbytes
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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