It's not all about a cash grab for everyone. I use Comcast Cable, and they too have a 250Gb Data cap. However they don;t charge for overages. If you go over their cap 3 times, they simply cancel you service and don't allow you to sign up with them for 12 months. I had 1 month where I used 1.5TB ( 1500Gb ) all attributed to Netflix streaming. So even in today's broadband 250gb is a very small cap, and 150 is minuscule.
I too was wondering what the best way was to petition these broadband carriers. Try to convince them of the need to eliminate the caps before they risk destroying their customer base.
With so much video streaming being introduced, Cloud Console gaming emerging, and so much more bandwidth heavy apps being brought out these caps need to seriously be re-evaluated by these ISP's. Whether they are doing it as a cash grab or spite... All they are really going to accomplish is to shoot themselves in the foot. I foresee them loosing more money on this in the long run then they think they'll make now.
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It's not all about a cash grab for everyone. I use Comcast Cable, and they too have a 250Gb Data cap. However they don;t charge for overages. If you go over their cap 3 times, they simply cancel you service and don't allow you to sign up with them for 12 months. I had 1 month where I used 1.5TB ( 1500Gb ) all attributed to Netflix streaming. So even in today's broadband 250gb is a very small cap, and 150 is minuscule.
I too was wondering what the best way was to petition these broadband carriers. Try to convince them of the need to eliminate the caps before they risk destroying their customer base.
With so much video streaming being introduced, Cloud Console gaming emerging, and so much more bandwidth heavy apps being brought out these caps need to seriously be re-evaluated by these ISP's. Whether they are doing it as a cash grab or spite... All they are really going to accomplish is to shoot themselves in the foot. I foresee them loosing more money on this in the long run then they think they'll make now.