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Title: Comcast tests hefty $30 per month fee to ditch Internet data cap Post by: HCK on September 03, 2015, 09:00:15 am Comcast tests hefty $30 per month fee to ditch Internet data cap
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Over the last three years, Comcast hasn’t worked up the gumption to reinstate bandwidth caps for home Internet users (http://www.techhive.com/article/2000095/comcast-suspends-data-cap-searches-for-alternative.html) nationwide. Nevertheless, the company is still experimenting with various capped plans in nine states. The latest addition to the trial is a change for customers in select regions of Florida where subscribers can now pay an extra fee for unlimited data usage.</p><p> The change allows Comcast home Internet subscribers in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and the Florida Keys to pay an extra $30 per month for unlimited data, as Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/09/comcast-now-charging-30-extra-per-month-for-unlimited-data-in-florida/) noted. The new charge is an alternative to the extra fee of $10 for every extra 50 gigabytes of data after blowing through Comcast’s monthly allotment of 300GB.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2979652/home-networking/comcast-tests-hefty-30-per-month-fee-to-ditch-internet-data-cap.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Comcast tests hefty $30 per month fee to ditch Internet data cap (http://www.macworld.com/article/2979652/home-networking/comcast-tests-hefty-30-per-month-fee-to-ditch-internet-data-cap.html#tk.rss_all) |