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I have no issue with this. Unfortunately people have failed to recognize that pricing methods used by ISPs aren't related to the cost of providing some amount of data, but provided to cover their entire business + profit, divided out amongst the customer base.

The only thing data caps do is ensure that heavy users pay more. The alternative to them, is that Comcast would just raise all customers' bills even more.

In an ideal situation, we'd have pure metered data usage, and pay by the MB, similar to how we pay for electricity or natural gas usage. Then people who barely use it would pay drastically less, and yes, the heaviest users would pay even more.



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