Posted on 09/02/2015 5:03:36 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Comcast has slowly but surely been expanding the company's usage cap trials since around 2012, largely focusing them on less competitive markets where annoyed users can't vote with their wallets. In these seventeen (and counting) trial markets, Comcast broadband customers face a monthly usage cap of 300 gigabytes. After that, users need to shell out $10 for each additional 50 gigabytes of data consumed. The trials have expanded slowly but surely in the hopes of minimizing user backlash. Basically, Comcast is the hot water slowly coming to a boil, and you're the frog.
It appears that Comcast has now added a new wrinkle to the mix, and has started charging these trial users an extra $30 if they want to bypass usage caps. The company's FAQ for the new option tries to argue that the change is being made to provide consumers with greater "choice and flexibility":
The Unlimited Data Option provides additional choice and flexibility for our customers who may make heavier use of the Internet. Enrollment is optional. The Unlimited Data Option costs the current additional fee of $30 per calendar month, regardless of actual data usage. The 300 GB plan will not apply to customers who enroll in the Unlimited Data Option.
Back in 2012, users in these trial markets used to get uncapped Comcast broadband service as a matter of course. They now get to pay $30 more a month for the honor of avoiding Comcast's totally arbitrary and unnecessary usage restrictions. And it's all thanks, of course, to the painful lack of competition in most Comcast markets. While this "unlimited" option is currently only being tested in the Florida cap markets, Comcast has made it clear for years it hopes to impose this kind of punitive pricing system in all markets.
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Brings back memories, all right. I was in high school, visiting my oldest brother at his dorm at college, and he played “How can you be in two places at once when you’re not anywhere at all” on the headphones, after we had smoked some sort of herbaceous material. After that, I too was a Firesign addict. Right now, all I have is on vinyl or cassette, and no way to play either. Maybe I’ll have to get CDs.
LOL, root beer. 8^)
Thanks. I think Dwarf is my favorite. I was still picking up new stuff after numerous playings, and I may never have caught everything. Probably didn’t, in fact.
Just took time to read through High School Madness there, thanks again. I could hear it as I read. One thing, though, I always thought Porgy’s dad was running for dogkiller, not doggonner, whatever that is.
you can burn your own cds from the original sound tracks at this youtube link....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CdiJvH50Bc
It’s definitely dogkiller. Here’s the audio track including some hilarious synchronized video. Somebody put alot of time in to this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A5DftXzIqs
I’ll have to try that when I get home.
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