AnonMe
| Something I'm not seeing discussed is the fact that the vast majority of Comcast subscribers are most likely Cable TV subscribers, too, so the costs of the "heavy abusers" for the subscription isn't (in many cases) just the $40 or $50 per month they hit you with for Internet service, it is also the $30 to $40 per month for Cable TV access. Sure you can get access w/o Cable TV, but you pay a premium for it (or you get a discount for being a current TV customer, depending on your view).
While these are two seperate business entities (TV and Internet Access), this is the same Corporation. If I were to get an abuse letter, I would simply discontinue my Cable TV and my Internet Access with Comcast. While the $90 per month that I personally pay to them would not be a huge blow, add up a large portion of people following suit and you have millions of dollars walking out the door.
I understand the costs of bandwidth go up. I work for an ISP who has in our terms of use policy a statement that is basically "Unlimited INTERACTIVE Internet". If we have a customer that is abusing the services as we deem it, we will contact the customer and give them our definition of INTERACTIVE, which means actively working/playing at the PC, utilizing their Internet Connection. Once we explain the policy to our customers, we rarely have a problem with their understanding. Some just decide to continue to abuse it until we terminate the services  |
