Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Comcast Caps to Begin in October, Set at 250GB per Month
BroadbandReports broke it and Comcast confirmed it: starting on October 1, Comcast will institute caps of 250GB per month. It’s beleived that overage fees are off the table for now, a welcome change from the initial plan to charge $1.50 per GB, a markup of around 100 times cost. There’s also a concrete DMCA policy. [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in News by Jesse
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Broadband Bytes: Weekend Edition
Qwest announced key leadership changes in Sales and IT. The link includes some background about each of the new executives that have been chosen. I’m hoping the new leaders will realize the importance of bringing telecommunications into the 21st century by investing in infrastructure like Verizon has been doing and understand the increasing [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Broadband Bytes by Mike Taylor
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Frontier Guarantees Mass Migration to UTOPIA in Tremonton with New 5GB Monthly Cap
Frontier Communications, the incumbent phone carrier in Tremonton, has decided to give UTOPIA a helping hand by implementing a 5GB monthly cap on all of their DSL customers to drive them into the arms of a competitor. By comparison, the lowest cap available from a UTOPIA provider is 20 times that at 100GB per month. [...]
