Comcast says no plan for usage-based pricing

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NEW YORK | Tue Dec 7, 2010 3:26pm EST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comcast Corp has no plans to start charging customers based on how much broadband is consumed by online video and other content, a top executive said on Tuesday.

"Right now we have no plan in place to activate usage-based pricing," Comcast Cable president Neil Smit told investors at a UBS conference in New York.

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission gave the green light for Internet providers to ration Web traffic on their networks.

Smit said the company allows for 250 gigabytes to be streamed each month and the average customer is using nowhere close to that. Comcast provides meters to allow customers to monitor usage.

(Reporting by Liana Baker; Editing by Bernard Orr)
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Eideard wrote:
This seems to be my day for cynicism. “We have no plan in place” says nothing about whether or not Comcast will throttle traffic based upon arbitrary guesses at traffic – or even with a smattering of meter-based guess.

It just means they’ll press on ahead without a plan. As usual.

Dec 07, 2010 6:22pm EST  --  Report as abuse
kmreview wrote:
How I miss you, Time Warner. I wish you’d come back to our region. Comcast service stinks! To everybody thinking of using Comcast, don’t do it. Do U-verse or dish.

Dec 08, 2010 3:54pm EST  --  Report as abuse
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