re: #420 Killgore Trout

Ah, thanks. I guess that seems a fair article, maybe a little leaning towards favorable towards the merger though with all the stuff about Comcast promising to behave responsibly by not throttling Netflix, not expanding their regional markets and not trying to hard to squeeze out other companies. I still think the merger is a bad idea and I doubt the Feds are going to block it.

The thing is, that Comcast IS engaging in throttling and surcharge practices toward people who are paying premium amounts for higher bandwidth rates. In some areas, they have a 300GB monthly cap on users with 50mb/sec and 100mb/sec service, and any overage adds $10 per 50gb. Note this cap is for all data transfers, meaning total of upload and downloaded data.

To give you an idea of what this entails, a typical High Definition (1080p) streamed movie requires roughly 8gb of bandwidth, and nowadays, the vast majority of console and PC software is delivered via digital transfer, versus via CD/DVD, and cloud-based computing and backup services are rapidly expanding = as an example, Google Fiber service provides 1TB of cloud-based storage as part of their package.