Comcast Users Must Now Pay $50 Per Month Extra To Avoid Caps (dslreports.com)

Karl Bode, reporting for DSLReports: In a letter being sent to Comcast customers in usage capped markets, the company says that with the recent announcement of usage caps being bumped to 1 terabyte, the company is also capping the amount of additional charges capped users can incur -- to $200 in a single month. As it stands, customers that cross the 1 terabyte limit face overage fees of $10 per each additional 50 GB consumed. But under the revised plans, customers have to pay $50 (up from $30 to $35) extra per month to avoid usage caps entirely. "Because you are an unlimited data customer, we will maintain your current rate of $35 until the end of 2016," the letter reads. Comcast's recent decision to bump their caps to 1 terabyte weren't driven by altruism. With the FCC preventing Charter from imposing caps for seven years as a merger condition, the agency has signaled that it may start getting more serious about cracking down on usage caps in the broadband market.

Comments

Pay up !

[Taco Cowboy]

Today it's Comcast, tomorrow it might be AT&T, the next day it might be some long distance company ... the list goes on, and on

All squeezing the American customers

Where is the government when we truly needs them?

Re:Pay up !

[Brett Buck]

Where is the government? The government is busy churning out regulation after regulation that prevents any possible competition that would drive the costs down. Most of these deals are driven by Comcast, etc, lobbying to keep everyone else out.

Got to love one-way agreements. . . .

[Salgak1]

. . . pity we can't say, "Sorry, but when I signed, the terms were unlimited bandwidth for $X/month. I haven't signed any changes to the agreement, so deliver, bitches. . . "

But what can you say about an ISP whose Customer Service Policy is cribbed from "50 Shades of Grey" ???