Comcast rolling out 1TB data caps to most states in November

Re:Comcast rolling out 1TB data caps to most states in November by aphextron on Friday October 07, 2016 @04:41AM (#12659066)

Fuck. Comcast.

How is it possible this is the only thing available in Silicon Valley?

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Re:Comcast rolling out 1TB data caps to most states in November by ryanbertrand on Friday October 07, 2016 @04:56AM (#12659128)

Hopefully WebPass will expand out of San Francisco soon.

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Re:Comcast rolling out 1TB data caps to most states in November by ac29 on Friday October 07, 2016 @11:56AM (#12661630)

AT&T pulled fiber in San Jose and Sunnyvale about a month ago. Supposed to be lit up around the end of the year. Other cities are possible as well, those are just the two where I've actually seen the fiber.

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Re:Comcast rolling out 1TB data caps to most states in November by tarancato on Friday October 07, 2016 @05:01AM (#12659148)

Because rolling out a fibre network is very very very expensive. People who think they are entitled to certain speeds, data caps, or prices, don't understand this. That's why Google Fiber is reconsidering their investment. It simply is too expensive.

If you have a problem, you can ask your government to force Comcast to rent the network, as it happens in civilised countries like mine, but that makes it harder to compete in price.

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Re:Comcast rolling out 1TB data caps to most states in November by amazon_not on Friday October 07, 2016 @12:13PM (#12661790)

> Because rolling out a fibre network is very very very expensive.

For some values of very very very expensive.

Fiber to the home costs about as much as a MacBook Pro.

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