Comcast Introduces New Data Caps, What do you think?

[NightDragon83]

Zappykins said:
In the 'olden days' of the internet there were caps too. The internet was charged by the hour. It severely limited it's usefulness.

I remember when AOL came out with it's 'radical' unlimited data plans. I think it was in the mid 1990's for around $39.99 a month (something like around $60 ish today.) I hope some other companies, like maybe Google, start offering more unlimited high speed and this trend goes away. It will stifle growth and development.

The Average Speed for the internet in Hong Kong is something like an Average of 36 megabytes a second. You could use your data plan rather quickly.

Yeah but that was going by amount of time spent online, not how much data you actually used / transferred.  They used to charge either hourly fees, daily, monthly or unlimited.  It was like back when cell phones first started going mainstream and you were actually capped by minutes.

Of course back in the day anyone with a dial-up modem was lucky to top 1GB of montly data usage lol.  That's like 250 songs a month on a 56k modem haha.