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Comcast Officially Capping Internet Use

Comcast has announced on their website today that they will be setting an official cap on the amount of data subscribers can download and upload each month. Starting October 1st, the cable juggernaut will update their user agreement to say that users will be allowed 250 GB of traffic per month (that comes out to [...]

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Time Warner US Broadband to Compete with India

In a move that will advance fuckup US broadband deployment Time Warner has decided to trial a bandwidth-capped consumption model starting in Texas. The gripe most people have with their solution to the problem of being unable to grow their network at the same rate as some 3rd world countries is to make their top-tier 15mb/down [...]

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