Comcast plans to charge customers for exceeding bandwidth cap

Source: BGR

Comcast recently announced that it may soon begin charging additional fees to broadband Internet subscribers who go over their monthly bandwidth allowances. The cable operator currently suspends customers’ service if they repeatedly go over their 250GB m ...
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Advocacy Groups Take FCC Chairman to Task for 'Data Cap Endorsement'

Source: Game Politics

Online advocacy groups Public Knowledge and Free Press are taking Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski to task for comments he made earlier this week that seemed to indicate an "end ...
Full article at: Game Politics  More like this  2 days ago, 11:38am CDT

Free Press, Public Knowledge Pan FCC Chair's Usage-Based Pricing Shout-out

Source: Multichannel News

The chairman pointed out that he had never backed the one size fits all pricing model, and said that charging more for more bandwidth also meant charging less for less, so it could be consumer friendly as well as a driv ...
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Did the Cable Guys Just Give In to Netflix's Demands?

Source: AOL News

The Internet is always a moving target. Not too long ago, cable giant Comcast (NAS: CMCSA) found itself under fire for some of its broadband policies. Netflix (NAS: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings complained that watching digital videos should count the ...
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50 Ways to Wreck the Network

Source: Hacker News

To the tune of "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" With apologies to Paul Simon. The problem is I worry too much, I pondered one dark day. But this Internet policy stuff, Is so confused in every way. It's as if somebody Just wanted to ...
Full article at: Hacker News  More like this  5 days ago, 3:30am CDT