Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.

  • Gork@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Yay I can’t wait for Comcast to implement this so you can blow through your 1.2 TB data cap in a second so they can charge you $10 per every 50 GB that it goes over.

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      1 year ago

      It still shocks me that they cap usage. There is no reason at all to do this. Why are they doing it?

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        1 year ago

        Because businesses exist to make money, so they have to balance charging as much money to the customers as they can without losing them to a competitive company. That used to mean that they had to treat customers with respect and make them want to stay with the business, but now they’ve realized that they can just pay lawmakers to let them have a monopoly, allowing them to charge as much money to the customers as they want without worrying that they’ll leave, since there’s either no competition for them to leave to, or the competition is using the same strategy, so leaving wouldn’t fix anything anyway. Free market, baby!

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      1 year ago

      And that’s why I have FiOS even though I despise Verizon, and could save some money with Comcast.