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With Fixed Costs And Fat Margins, Comcast's Broadband Cap Justifications Are Total Bullshit
For a while Comcast tried to pretend that its slowly-expanding usage cap "trials" were about managing network congestion. At least until leaked Comcast documents, the company's top engineer, and the cable industry's top lobbyist all confirmed that justification was bullshit (caps don't really help manage congestion anyway). Since then, Comcast has veered away from any hard technical explanation for the glorified price hike, instead focusing on the ambiguous claim...
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Everyone needs to know this- and pay attention because while Cocmast (see what I did there?) is a big-boy, there is little preventing another competitor from attempting the same thing. Data caps and rate hikes don't fix congestion issues.
This is it in a nutshell;