Comcast is putting a data cap on its internet plans — and people aren't pleased

I was just talking to a guy last night who's job is working in the mobile data speed business. He said it's all a bunch of semantics at the end of the day, because even if a company says they will provide an "Unlimited Data Plan", they will severely drop the speed of a user's connection once that user goes passes a threshold of data that would be considered excessive. So no matter whether you are on an unlimited data plan or a plan with a predefined amount of data included, you're going to basically get what you pay for in the end either way.
 
Baron said:
I was just talking to a guy last night who's job is working in the mobile data speed business. He said it's all a bunch of semantics at the end of the day, because even if a company says they will provide an "Unlimited Data Plan", they will severely drop the speed of a user's connection once that user goes passes a threshold of data that would be considered excessive. So no matter whether you are on an unlimited data plan or a plan with a predefined amount of data included, you're going to basically get what you pay for in the end either way.
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I can be wrong but I thought Supreme Court recently ruled against either Verizon or AT&T that unlimited means unlimited and not subject to caps.
 
The guy I spoke with said the problem is that 4% of the users drain over 40% of the bandwidth, and mainly because they were using their "unlimited" data plans to host gaming servers, file sharing servers for music and movies, and all kinds of other distribution services that a cell connection was never intended to be used for.
 
Baron said:
The guy I spoke with said the problem is that 4% of the users drain over 40% of the bandwidth, and mainly because they were using their "unlimited" data plans to host gaming servers, file sharing servers for music and movies, and all kinds of other distribution services that a cell connection was never intended to be used for.
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It seems there is abuse but Comcast should go after those users not punish all...


I have erred AT&T got off on a technicality but apparently it's not over yet...

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-30/a-bad-ruling-for-those-who-want-to-throttle-at-t
 
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