Comcast’s Straw Drinks Your Bandwidth
Blast, October 2, 2008
By Manuel Uribe
The day has come for all Comcast High-Speed residential Internet customers: They officially have a usage cap. The "customer-defined" usage limit is 250GB a month. Comcast says it’s "an extremely large amount of data, much more than a typical residential customer uses on a monthly basis."
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