250gb isn't anything to worry about i manage to get by on 25gb a month.
Im guessing that the cap will be the same us what us Aussies have either have your internet speed drop down to dial-up speed(real dial-up, im talking 56k, where even VGchartz takes 3-5 mins to load..) OR they will charge you per mb you go over (like $0.05 per mb... which can be quite expensive if you exceed the cap by much ).
Anyway i do see this as becoming a major problem for digital distribution and maybe the internet itself needs to undergo a massive infrastructure upgrade. I mean as file sizes and speeds continue to grow ISP's are facing the problem of maintaining enough bandwidth for everybody these caps will only get worse. Where does go from here - 250gb to 200gb? then 150gb? Before you know it the US will be like Australia and have large caps of 50gb for a few consumers while the bulk of users get around on 12gb or less. (hell Bigpond/Telstra even have 400mb caps here. Yep 400mb downloads + Uploads... which is something i feel should be illegal... )
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