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Over here in Aus for $90 a month I get 20GB which is one of the larger consumer cable Internet plans you can get. I can understand why US companies imposing a limit when there used to be none would be annoying so many people, including Todd. Regardless of whether or not the Comcast broadband deal represents good value, to give someone something and then take it away will always get them annoyed. Having offered unlimited broadband for so long, to then restrict that will cause great unrest amongst their customers, even those that use nowhere near 250GB a month. The telco's might have been given some slack if they had not been behaving in such an anti-consumer way recently. Trying to create a tiered Internet to improve their revenue. Lobbying against net neutrality. Tracking customers traffic to sell targetted advertising. Redirecting 404's and even embedded ads to their own services. Bandwidth shaping, and even blocking entire services. Doing nothing to stop spammers or bots on
Geeknewscentral.com Saturday, August 30, 2008

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