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forest444

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Sat Nov 7, 2015, 07:59 PM Nov 2015

Leaked Comcast Docs: Data Caps Have Nothing to Do With Network Congestion.

Comcast’s new data caps for Internet usage aren’t meant to keep its network running smoothly. Instead, the goal is “fairness and providing a more flexible policy to our customers,” according to leaked Comcast instructional documents found on Reddit on Friday.

Comcast has implemented four different data usage trials in the United States — and the most recent plans charge users $10 for every 50 GB of data they use over the 300 GB threshold. The program is expanding to Arkansas and Virginia December 1.

In the leaked documents, Comcast specifically tells customer-service reps not to say "the program is about congestion management." It also tells them not to use the term "data cap."

To be fair, Comcast won't charge you for the first three times you exceed 300 GB, and will send you a courtesy ‘in-browser’ notice and an email letting you know when you reach 90% of your monthly data usage plan amount. You can also elect to receive notifications at as low as 50% of your monthly plan.

"This plan sets up a mechanism that those who use more, pay more and those who use less, pay less," Charlie Douglas, executive director of corporate communications at Comcast said in an interview on Saturday.

On the leaked documents, however, Douglas said: "Just like we’re educating customers, we’re also educating care agents. Everything in those documents is consistent with everything we’re saying both internally and externally."

At: http://www.phillymag.com/business/2015/11/07/comcast-leak-data-cap/

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Leaked Comcast Docs: Data Caps Have Nothing to Do With Network Congestion. (Original Post) forest444 Nov 2015 OP
and once they get the caps in place, the price increases will come like clockwork. n/t dixiegrrrrl Nov 2015 #1
You're not kidding, dixiegirl. forest444 Nov 2015 #2

forest444

(5,902 posts)
2. You're not kidding, dixiegirl.
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 10:17 PM
Nov 2015

This has trojan horse written all over it. Check out the discussion at the LBN version of this post (some very illuminating comments there):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141254108

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