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Cable is too expensive so everyone goes streaming. Comcast caps data in response. Anyone surprised?
It's also no surprise to any party that the main reason people get internet is so they can use Netflix and other streaming services. It's NOT so they can do cable TV, nor any of Comcast's streaming services.
Yes I can assume that. Some 1 or 2% of residential households exceed that amount. You'd have to be streaming HD content nearly 24/7 to exceed 1TB usage in a month. I live in a four-person, multi-device, no-cable household where streaming services provide the bulk of our media content. And we still never go near 1TB a month. 300GB is about our limit. Your bunch-of-teenagers-simultaneously-streaming-stuff problem is easily resolved by not letting a bunch of teenagers come over and simultaneously mooch off your internet service.
Honestly, 4K is overrated. Most people will experience little benefit from it unless they sit 5 feet from their TV or have a gigantic screen. You'll survive just fine receiving some of your content in 720 or 1080.
You don't get to tell people what is and is not overrated. It's not for you to decide what people enjoy.
Again, the fact is, Scamcast is, as it always has, simply bleeding their customers dry for no other reason than sheer greed. There is no reason for the data caps.
You don't get to tell people what is and is not overrated. It's not for you to decide what people enjoy.
Again, the fact is, Scamcast is, as it always has, simply bleeding their customers dry for no other reason than sheer greed. There is no reason for the data caps.
But it is ok to tell Comcast how to run their business?
It's also no surprise to any party that the main reason people get internet is so they can use Netflix and other streaming services. It's NOT so they can do cable TV, nor any of Comcast's streaming services.
AT&T has imposed a data cap on its customers for over a year now. If you subscribe to UVerse internet (the only one available in our rural area besides rip-off Comcast), we have data usage limits UNLESS you also subscribe to Direct TV. If you pay them for this cable service, there are no data limits. So we can watch as much Netflix as we want as long as we keep paying them for the cable service that they also own. That should be illegal, IMO. At least it doesn't affect us now, since my wife loves her Direct TV for reasons I fail to understand. It's a waste of money for us. Every show we watch is on Netflix or network TV, so we never use the Direct TV.
You and your neighbors are welcome to take your own shot of providing your own internet service. The answer is not for big government to expropriate the private property of Comcast and other internet service providers. Communism killed over 190 million people in the 20th century.
Are they doing anything illegal? Had the FCC ruled against Comcast yet? Keep in mind the FCC is comprised of bureaucrats with lined pockets an ex-employees of these big companies. Did tv stations have to stop broadcasting on old analog spectrum? No. It was so the FCC could sell the frequency to Verizon and att.
It's just perplexing how the masses tell businesses be ran.This isn't just Comcast. It's every customer telling big business how to run them.
Depends on the classification of said business. The internet is considered a utility and has it's own regulations because of it.
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Had the FCC ruled against Comcast yet? Keep in mind the FCC is comprised of bureaucrats with lined pockets an ex-employees of these big companies. Did tv stations have to stop broadcasting on old analog spectrum? No. It was so the FCC could sell the frequency to Verizon and att.
Oh I'm fully aware of some individuals who need not be apart of the FCC (the chairman comes to mind). We still have to have regulation for businesses as massive as Comcast. They are a utility company and have so many local monopolies that the restrictions they impose on their customers have significant impact on millions of people. Just letting them do whatever they want, or comparing them to just any other business will not do.
It's also no surprise to any party that the main reason people get internet is so they can use Netflix and other streaming services. It's NOT so they can do cable TV, nor any of Comcast's streaming services.
No this is changing and Comcast is getting scared. People are streaming sports now and everything. Cable is becoming something that isn't needed. The vast majority of people don't even watch all of those stupid channels on the expensive cable packages. Comcast is a joke and I wish they had way more competition in every market.
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