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Comcast plans to implement monthly data caps for Xfinity home internet customers across nearly its entire service area in 2021.
The data cap will be 1.2 terabytes a month, and will apply to a slew of states in the northeastern U.S. starting in 2021. A similar cap is already in effect for non-unlimited customers across most of the other areas that Comcast services.
Starting in March, non-unlimited customers who exceed 1.2TB a month will be charged $10 per additional 50GB of data over that limit. The maximum additional charge per month is $100.
To ease users into the new caps, Comcast will give Xfinity customers who aren't on an unlimited plan a credit for any usage over that data cap in January and February.
Comcast will implement the new data caps in Connecticut; Delaware; Massachusetts; Maryland; Maine; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New York; Pennsylvania; Virginia, Vermont; West Virginia; Washington, D.C.; and parts of North Carolina and Ohio.
According to the internet service provider, 95% of its customers don't hit the 1.2TB-a-month threshold.
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We did and used our one free overage so next time it will cost. We have gigabit service and because of COVID we’ve been watching too much TV. Big Sur is a 12GB download so we’ll eat up a bunch with that.
I despise this company with a passion. Talk about monopolists, they just extort whatever the market will bear. In the SF area Sonic is destroying them with $50/month uncapped fiber service (Comcast charges more than double for their crappy gigabit capped service and its pathetic upload speeds)
Caps are just another way they found to maximize profits. Mind you, Cox in Las Vegas is even worse, charging more for less. In every market, whenever a provider has a monopoly on fast broadband, they take advantage and fleece users. It’s about time that PoS Ajit Pai get shown the door and we see some regulation in this area.
I specifically left Comcast for this reason. They gave me the same line about “95% of users not hitting the limit” but apparently I’m in the 5%. I have a 6 person household with a slew of device (phones, iPads, laptops, consoles, etc) and we primarily stream all our TV. Every month I was over the 1TB limit so I had to either pay overages or an additional $50 a month for unlimited. Switched to AT&T and I now get unlimited data automatically since I have TV service with them as well. I will 1000% NEVER use Comcast again or suggest anyone does. EVER.
No data caps with Charter/Spectrum in the midwest... SO FAR.
Gigabit Att Fiber with no limit here. $80/mo.