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Comcast, provider of cable, telephone (VoIP), and broadband internet has sent out letters to subscribers of it’s high-speed internet services with a warning.  The warning is to throttle back their downloading or face a 12 month suspension.

One of the issues that face subscribers is that the telecom giant never specified how much is too much.  Years ago the company offered “unlimited access” to the internet.  Now, in a 23 part terms of service agreement, that seems to have changed.  As stated in the contract a vague sentence looms…“levels of traffic sufficient to impede others’ ability to send or retrieve information.” That is what a breach of contract looks like to Comcast.

Some customers who were legally using the service (one to trasfer large files to his son) have now started a blog called “Comcast Issues“.  Another customer was accussed by Comcast of downloading 200-300 GB of data in month.  That number is too far out of reach, even for the heaviest of users.

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Comcast, provider of cable, telephone (VoIP), and broadband internet has sent out letters to subscribers of it’s high-speed internet services with a warning.  The warning is to throttle back their downloading or face a 12 month suspension.

One of the issues that face subscribers is that the telecom giant never specified how much is too much.  Years ago the company offered “unlimited access” to the internet.  Now, in a 23 part terms of service agreement, that seems to have changed.  As stated in the contract a vague sentence looms…“levels of traffic sufficient to impede others’ ability to send or retrieve information.” That is what a breach of contract looks like to Comcast.

Some customers who were legally using the service (one to trasfer large files to his son) have now started a blog called “Comcast Issues“.  Another customer was accussed by Comcast of downloading 200-300 GB of data in month.  That number is too far out of reach, even for the heaviest of users.

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