[IP] Re: Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: lynn [lynn@ecgincc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:19 AM
To: David Farber
Cc: imhopper@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:  Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees

I disagree about the rest of the world. Asia has much more widespread
access, and better than the US. I'm not sure of the cost.

Further, as more and more information, applications, etc goes online, the
limit will likely cause many issues or costs.

If I purchase a movie view from Comcast (on demand) will that count in
their limit? I doubt it. This creates a huge disadvantage for any Comcast
competitor.

As to the truth from Comcast, they have been caught in so many untruths
that it's difficult to believe them. I think it's very possible this is a
fishing (not phishing) expedition for reaction before makiking a decision.
Unfortunately the majority of people will have no idea how this will
effect them, so will stay silent.

Lynn

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> ________________________________________
> From: David Ian Hopper [imhopper@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:16 AM
> To: David Farber
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees
>
> Welcome to the rest of the world.  Outside the US, unmetered access is
> far from the norm, from dialup to broadband.  In India, I pay about
> $75/month for 2 Mbps downstream access on an unmetered plan -- that's
> the fastest a private person can get.  The unlimited plans are not
> widely advertised, and priced well out of the range of even those
> people who are "rich" enough to have Internet access at all.  The most
> popular plans are 300 rupees (about 7 bucks at the current exchange)
> for 256KB.
>
> On one hand, when you have a lot of people and a limited series of
> tubes, there have to be limits.  On the other, if Comcast is telling
> the truth that only a tiny percentage of their users are "heavy"
> users, then they won't piss off very many -- and are likely to get a
> significant number of those to pay extra for unlimited access, since
> there are relatively few options for broadband in a given
> neighborhood.
>
> - Ian.
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:47 PM, David Farber <dave@farber.net> wrote:
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>>  From: Ralph [rs9174@gmail.com]
>>  Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:43 AM
>>  To: David Farber
>>  Subject: Re: [IP] Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees
>>
>>  250GB would give you the bandwidth to download how many movies per
>>  month?  0? 1? 5? 25?
>>
>>  Ralph Sierra
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