Comcast to Limit Transfers to 250GB/Month

This is about the desktop, not cell phones, but it’s important: Comcast has confirmed that all residential customers will be subject to a 250 gigabyte per month data limit starting October 1, PC Magazine reports.

250GB is plenty of bandwidth for most users, although anyone who has decided to give streaming movie rentals a try (a la the iTunes Store or Netflix Watch it Now) could run into that wall relatively quickly. Nonetheless, this follows a move by carriers over the past year to add 5GB/month limits to their cellular data network plans, after initially marketing them misleadingly

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