frostedflakes
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Why should they spend more money just to appease 2% of their customers? That's not a cop-out, it's just smart business.Not sure if you're trolling...but that's a pretty shameless cop-out for wireless providers (or even ISPs) to say 98% of their subscribers don't use the 5 GB. It almost implies that if they did, their networks won't be able to take it.
If it's marketed as unlimited, it should be delivered as such. Would buffets be able to get away with this? Fat people would be comfortably rolling in their graves. 90% of people can't eat as much as them..so they will be cut off. Great business technique assholes.
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Suck it Comcast and your 250GB/mo cap.
Most residential internet services are oversold, that's the reason they're able to offer the speeds they do for a relatively low price. Phone service operates on the same principle, your offered capacity is much higher than the actual capacity your network can carry, and part of the network design is figuring out the best mix between overselling but not overselling so much that you cause excessive failed calls and upset customers. Many telecommunications systems are based on the assumption that not everybody will be using the connection at the same time, not everyone will be maxing it out, etc. That's just the reality of residential phone and internet service. If you want a dedicated line that is all yours and can be used in any way you want, you need to price a T1, T3, OC-3, something like that, and they aren't cheap. Since this connection can't be oversold and the cost shared among many customers, you're going to pay out the ear for it.
With respect to the Comcast 250GB/mo cap, they've said that only like 0.1% of their customers go over it. 1 in 1000 customers. It sucks, but face it, people who are affected by this cap are a very small minority and Comcast has absolutely no reason to go out their way to make them happy. And honestly I think Comcast's 250GB/mo is pretty darn generous. A lot better than the 60GB/mo caps and stuff that some ISPs try to push on customers.
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