The Comcast Bandwidth Cap -- Blame Florida (and Lack of Competition and Refusal to Upgrade).
Wet Machine, September 10, 2008
By Harold Feld
Comcast agreed to clarify its cap as part of a settlement with the Florida Attorney General's office. Apparently, the Florida Attorney General also thought a policy that simply shut off the top 1000 users every month regardless of actual use or congestion did not meet proper standards of consumer protection or "reasonable network management."
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