Music industry may be finally taking a step forward, but cable & telecom giants want to take steps backward. Customers of Comcast USA now have an invisible barrier on their monthly data usage: 250GB per month, per account.
Users over the limit get a phone call warning and second time, Comcast suspends service for a year. That really hurts customers streaming HD video or using online backup services. And Comcast will not provide tools to help users monitor usage.
Cable & telecom instinct (even in Europe) is not to ramp up infrastructure for the coming video explosion but instead use lack of it as an excuse. They want desperately to get back to their high margin pay-as- you-use model of the wired phone era.
You are warned.
