Comments on: The broadband music jam arrives http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/04/30/the-broadband-music-jam-arrives/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Jag XK http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/04/30/the-broadband-music-jam-arrives/comment-page-1/#comment-346367 Jag XK Fri, 08 May 2009 10:06:15 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/04/30/the-broadband-music-jam-arrives/#comment-346367 Thanks for this, just realised a lot from the post.

]]> By: Broadband http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/04/30/the-broadband-music-jam-arrives/comment-page-1/#comment-346366 Broadband Thu, 07 May 2009 14:24:34 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/04/30/the-broadband-music-jam-arrives/#comment-346366 Comcast last year paid the state of Florida $150,000 to deal with this exact issue and the ambiguity that surrounded it. Each month, Comcast would contact the top 1,000 users of its 14.4 million user network network, regardless of how much data they had transferred, and warn them that they were violating the acceptable use policy. When users asked what the limit was, they were simply told that they needed to stay out of the top 1,000 user list—something impossible to know.

The state attorney general said that “a 'top 1,000' criteria, as previously applied, did not clearly and conspicuously disclose to the consumer the specific amount of bandwidth deemed to be excessive under Comcast's subscriber agreements.” In response, Comcast adopted the explicit 250GB/month cap.

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