Comments on: Memo To Comcast: Show Us the Meter for Metered Broadband

By: Charter Follows Comcast With Broadband Usage Caps: Tech News «

Charter Follows Comcast With Broadband Usage Caps: Tech News « — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:39:15 +0000

[...] that user’s account would be suspended. Unfortunately, for those who get these calls, Charter doesn’t yet have a tool to help those customers measure their use, but is working on one. However, when Comcast implemented its caps, it too lacked a measurement [...]

By: Baren

Baren — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 06:06:26 +0000

Does ATT have such stupid bandwidth rules? Its time to put Comcast out of buisness and use someone else.

By: Comcast Trials Broadband Meter in Portland – GigaOM

Comcast Trials Broadband Meter in Portland – GigaOM — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:18:59 +0000

[...] meter that will measure how much data a household consumes over its cable modem, something we’ve been asking for ever since Comcast announced it would implement a 250 GB-per-month cap on data downloads. Comcast had [...]

By: Why Your Broadband Meter Is Running Late – GigaOM

Why Your Broadband Meter Is Running Late – GigaOM — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:10:32 +0000

[...] 0 0 0 As ISPs have introduced capped or metered broadband, the one element that’s been missing is the meter. Over at my old hometown newspaper, the Houston Chronicle, columnist Dwight Silverman points out [...]

By: Is There Such a Thing As a Better Broadband Cap?

Is There Such a Thing As a Better Broadband Cap? — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:38:57 +0000

[...] Provide a meter so folks can see if they’re close to maxing out their service. [...]

By: anon

anon — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:53:48 +0000

IF THEY USE A METER, THEY ARE JEOPARDIZING THEIR OWN BUSINESS.

LIKE YOU SAID, WATER AND ELECTRIC CHARGE BY THE METER.

COMCAST CHARGES YOU JUST CAUSE.

IF A METER EXISTED, ANOTHER COMPANY WOULD COME OUT WITH A MONTHLY FEE + CHARGE BY THE METER OVER A CERTAIN LIMIT.

By: Austin Bandwidth Hog Claims Time Warner Cable Cut Him Off | tech.shaundunne.com

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:15:29 +0000

[...] by one-fourth or even one-third. His service was subsequently reconnected Wednesday evening. He was not given a way to track his usage, nor was he given a firm cap for his top-of-the-line Turbo subscription for which Howard pays $41 a [...]

By: Austin Bandwidth Hog Claims Time Warner Cable Cut Him Off

Austin Bandwidth Hog Claims Time Warner Cable Cut Him Off — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:36:24 +0000

By: clear

clear — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:00:47 +0000

I do not like the monopoly cable making rules and laws that affect us all as users. How do we contact the FCC to stop this kind of nonsense?

By: This is crap

This is crap — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:09:57 +0000

This whole metered internet usage spiel is just crap. It’s no different than metering my cell phone usage. I almost never use my cell phone, 30 minutes a month at most. I still get bills that say I was on the phone for 800 minutes in one phone call to one phone number. So much for accurate company meters. This is nothing more than rape of the consumers plain and simple. It doesn’t cost them any more for the increased usage. They are making more money than ever before with more customers signing up every day to use their services. This is just more outrageous bull shite from greedy corporations.

By: Brits Get Broadband Bill of Rights - GigaOM

Brits Get Broadband Bill of Rights - GigaOM — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:43:11 +0000

[...] the U.K. population have signed up, according to Ofcom. ISPs must also disclose bandwidth caps, and when customers might be nearing such caps. Additionally, those participating in the code need to allow customers to downgrade their service [...]

By: AT&T Trials Tiered Broadband in Nevada - GigaOM

AT&T Trials Tiered Broadband in Nevada - GigaOM — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:50:42 +0000

[...] company would also offer larger tiers. The filing states that AT&T will also offer customers a meter to show them how much bandwidth they have consumed, which is more than Comcast (with its 250 GB cap) or even Time Warner have offered. AT&T also [...]

By: AT&T Trials Tiered Broadband in Nevada - GigaOM

AT&T Trials Tiered Broadband in Nevada - GigaOM — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:50:42 +0000

By: AT&T Trials Tiered Broadband in Nevada - GigaOM

AT&T Trials Tiered Broadband in Nevada - GigaOM — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:50:42 +0000

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:28:18 +0000

Since when did;

“UNLIMITED INTERNET ACCESS,” and “ALWAYS ON,” mean 250gb per month?

I have 3 kids that all like to play games on the internet, to name one of those games, “World of Warcraft.”

This is why I bought into the Comcast high speed cable.

Now you say that you have “FAILED” at your part of the bargain, and cannot deliver what you had “advertised and promised” to the public.

FALSE ADVERTISING IS ILLEGAL

Since “YOU” have “FAILED” you want to change the rules to suit your FAILURE…

HEY COMCAST, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT?

YOU CANNOT JUST CHANGE THE RULES AND NEGATE YOUR OBLIGATIONS LIKE THE POLITICIANS DO.

I think it’s time to sell your million dollar homes and FOREIGN Luxury cars…

If you can’t deliver the product you DO NOT deserve that multi-million dollar paycheck!

You are all just more, “corporate thieving bast–ds!”

I hope you are all proud as this is the perfect example of why America is in the sorry shape it is in right now.

The executives sucking every penny they can out of the company and saying they can’t afford to pay the employees!

Then you jerks cut the jobs to make the numbers look good, and give yourselves a fat bonus. All at the X-employees expense…

We see it, your not slipping by un-noticed!

Your just another ENRON in the making…

By: John

John — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:49:39 +0000

Good bye Sling Box, you were fun while you lasted. Good bye to all promosing media content businesses that will push me towards my cap.

Btw, where the heck are the anti-trust lawsuits… Comcast is using their Internet service to weed out competition to their television service. If that’s not a possible anti-trust issue I don’t know what is.