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Comcast Mulls 250GB Monthly Cap, Disconnecting File-Sharers

By soulxtc

Insider says should only affect 14,000 of its 14 million customers, but new policy that terminates accounts who receive 4 DMCA letters in a 12 month period may have more dramatic effect. Broadband Reports has a posted an interview with a "Comcast insider" who swears that the ISP has new network traffic management plans in store. After having been reprimanded buy the FCC and skewered by network neutrality advocates, BitTorrent users and companies, and almost everybody in between for throttling BitTorrent traffic in order to free up bandwidth, it now seems the ISP has decided on a formula of overusage fees and disconnections for persistent troublemakers. Set to begin in a "month or two," the plan would mean that all subscribers get a 250GB per month cap with one free "slip up" a year. Violators would be charged $15 for each 10GB over the cap.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on May 08, 2008 (boomark / email).