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Re:SSD Prices in a Free Fall by rconti on Monday June 22, 2015 @07:44PM (#9761861)
Are they moving towards bandwidth caps? Comcast in the SF Bay Area has claimed a "suspended" 250GB cap for years and years. I get the impression that we're moving away from bandwidth caps.
Re:SSD Prices in a Free Fall by dangrossman on Monday June 22, 2015 @08:44PM (#9762066)
Data caps on Comcast service are coming back. They started with Nashville and Tucson in 2012. The program's now expanded to Huntsville and Mobile, AL; Augusta and Savannah, Georgia; Central Kentucky; Maine; Jackson, Mississippi; Knoxville and Memphis, Tennessee and Charleston, South Carolina; and Fresno, California. They're testing two different plans: a 300GB cap with overage charges ($10 per 50GB) and flex-data plans ($5 discount for a 5GB monthly cap, and $1 per GB over the 5GB).
Re:SSD Prices in a Free Fall by morganvachon on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:17AM (#9762584)
Add Atlanta, GA metro area to your list. They've had me on a 300GB cap for the past year. I've only gone over it once (burning one of three overage allowances) because we stream most of the TV and movies we watch, and I do a lot of OS testing, downloading ISOs and packages on a daily basis.

I really don't get a data cap of 300GB for today's culture of "stream everything". I can see something like a 1TB cap to knock out the heavy torrenters, but 300GB/month is 10GB/day. A decent sized family will bust through that easily (Dad watching a 3GB movie, Mom streaming 1GB of Pandora throughout the day, Daughter downloading 7GB of new Xbox/PS4 game content, Son binging half a season of a Netflix show at 5GB).