Comments on: Video: Why Data Caps Suck

By: Nate Bousfield

Nate Bousfield — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 02:39:00 +0000

thanks for the info!

By: Tim242

Tim242 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:19:00 +0000

They throttle after 5GB on the prepaid $30 plan. The true unlimited was just for post paid, but they also just added it on the $70 prepaid plan.

By: Nate Bousfield

Nate Bousfield — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:15:00 +0000

I didn’t know that. What happens on the $30 online-only prepaid plan with 5gb of “4g” data? I’ve never hit the cap.

By: Richard Brito

Richard Brito — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:43:00 +0000

I’m agreeing with you, hence why I said Comcast is not owned by GE. Comcast has the controlling stake and will be buying out GE’s remaining portion in the years to come.

By: Jimneezy

Jimneezy — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:47:00 +0000

I’d say go for the record of 100gb a month, f#ck it leave your phone on netflicks for the whole night looping lol

By: Jeff Simpson

Jeff Simpson — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:26:00 +0000

That’s cool, but not really true. The main point made in the first half of the video is that “it doesn’t matter how much data you use, congestion is purely based on the number of users”

For starters, no. Number of packets = congestion. More data being transmitted = more packets = more congestion. But even if you ignore that bit, there’s still the other issue of the fact that it’s Time Shared. I’m not using my broadband connection every second of every day. And if I’m using less data, I’m using it less TIME as well. (Downloading a smaller file takes less time, therefore I’m using the device for less time, or I’m using wifi). End result is, if users use less data, more users can share the same network before congestion kills the speed.

I still hate data caps, and I think they do kind of strangle out the innovation. It’s frustrating to see a company advertising how fast their service is and all the streaming media you can get, but at the same time being limited to such a small amount of capacity that you can’t actually get the benefits of the speed and media selection.

By: Tim242

Tim242 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:12:00 +0000

actually, they no longer throttle.

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:06:00 +0000

I’ve used 50 gb in a month, most of it was from vacation and uploading 1080 HD videos to my drive account. HD videos eat a lot of memory like 10 mins a gb. Another reason to have more onboard storage or SD slots in devices when they have the ability to record HD

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:59:00 +0000

Its always a conspiracy when it comes to corporate greed, always having to have growth every quarter for their shareholders and executive bonus’.

By: ObviousNinja2

ObviousNinja2 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 05:54:00 +0000

LOL….That’s not a power user. GET MORE POWER!!!

By: S2556

S2556 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 05:27:00 +0000

its because he is on the internet instead of watching TV!

By: Poise

Poise — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 03:33:00 +0000

Arthur reference!!!!! Loved it!!!!

By: nightscout13

nightscout13 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 03:23:00 +0000

That’s a joint venture, how is that GE owning Comcast? If GE owned Comcast, then NBC would be owned 100% by GE, right? There would be no splitting the rights, if one is parent.

By: Richard Brito

Richard Brito — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 03:21:00 +0000

Comcast is 51% owner of NBC Universal with GE holding the 49% at the moment.

By: Derek Lockovich

Derek Lockovich — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 03:02:00 +0000

Here’s a petition: http://wh.gov/EJgq

Please sign that and let’s get a response from the government.