| Tucson, AZ Gets Lower Caps Tucson, AZ is getting much lower caps starting on October 1.
Economy 300GB
Economy Plus 300GB
Internet Essentials 300GB
Performance Starter 300GB
Performance 300GB
Blast 350GB
Extreme 50 450GB
Extreme 105 600GB
Overage is $10/50GB
»customer.comcast.com/help-and-su···s-tucson
These caps are behavior of sudo monopolies using their position to extort more revenue from customers. If there is really a bandwidth congestion problem, the real solution is QoS and bandwidth caps, not usage caps. The problem is the average user can't easily understand QoS and it doesn't easily bring in more revenue. |
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| 300 GB is not reasonable for a family w 2+ kids that actually use media. I easily go over 500GB a month and that is 2012, how about 2014. Do you think they are going to be generous in caps. So today, unless I paid $100, I would pay $100 with all of the overages with no upper limit. You think some actuary figured that out 
Tuscon is obviously a non-competitive area that they are price testing, they just happen to be the lab rats. They would never try it in my area, because I would just order a truck roll. Verizon, earthlink, WISP, TWC...its a bounty in my area and that's why I only pay $105 for triple play.
So as in wireless, so in wireline. Considering that transit fees are pennies per gig, this is quite the moneymaker. This makes SMS look like a mild margin hog. In fact assuming most of the consumption is provided by CDN in net, there are ZERO transit costs AND Comcast gets to charge for CDN hookups in their datacenters. Double dip....
Again, charging $10 for zero incremental cost. Quite a haul.
Anyone who thinks these caps are reasonable doen't understand the cost structure and just how profitable this stuff is.
Greed is Good! |
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Perhaps I spoke too soon. Those aren't great incentives for caps to move up to the higher speeds.
Blast 500GB, Extreme 50 1TB, Extreme 105 2TB, now that I would find reasonable. |
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| reply to elefante72
I wasn't aware Comcast was in Tucson. I always thought that was a Cox area.
But CenturyLink is the telco, so I'm not surprised that they're going to get the worst of the worst. They've been really slow at launching Prism, and they scare cable the least (VZ scares them the most, at least until the Spectrumco deal). |
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 BF69Premium
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Camden, TN | reply to elefante72
said by elefante72:300 GB is not reasonable for a family w 2+ kids that actually use media. I easily go over 500GB a month and that is 2012, how about 2014. Guess what it's not 2014 yet. Also if you go over 500 GB you have 2 chocies, up your tier or pay the overage. |
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BF69Premium
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Camden, TN | reply to elefante72
said by elefante72:300 GB is not reasonable for a family w 2+ kids that actually use media. I easily go over 500GB a month and that is 2012, how about 2014. Do you think they are going to be generous in caps. So today, unless I paid $100, I would pay $100 with all of the overages with no upper limit. You think some actuary figured that out Under the old cap you'd hit 250 GB and then be cut off. Would you rather have that? |
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 tshirtPremium,MVM
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said by elefante72:Anyone who thinks these caps are reasonable doen't understand the cost structure and just how profitable this stuff is.
therefore you believe this is reasonable?
Because you obviously don't understand.
If you lived in a DC or paid for backbone to your door, transit would be pennies, however you hired comcast to get it from the Headend to your house which is a much more expensive part of the trip. They had to build out and maintain a private HFC plant that reaches every home wheter they subscribe or not, and continue to expand the plant capacity to mimic the maximum useage based on pricing for a much higher contention rate.
So when your type useage pushes the node wide average up, the entire node must be improved to add that capacity at the cost of many thousand of dollars, even though you might move tomorrow leave thos improvments unpaid for.
There solution is to charge everyone nationwide an average rate for the first XXXGB but to charge your excess at a rate that beins to cover improvements across the node if you consistantly use more.
As you point out YOU have alternetives, USE THEM.
keeping comcast in the black with an average profit of around 10% is not greedy, it is a reasonable and prudent business plan. |
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