Comcast Wants To Put Data Caps On All Customers Within 5 Years
Found on Techcrunch on Friday, 16 May 2014
During an investor call today (link via Ars), Comcast executive VP David Cohen said that he predicts bandwidth caps (or, as ISPs prefer to put it, “usage-based billing”) to be rolled out network-wide within the next 5 years or so.
Once 4K streaming comes into the mix in a few years and Netflix/Amazon/et al. get more stuff worth watching, those caps are gonna burn up quick.
First they lure in customers with flatrate access and now they are backpedaling because it turns out that traffic keeps on growing. Maybe they should have just invested some money into their networks and upgraded them.