IF gigablast is available to you, and not all places are.
"We are going to charge you overages unless you upgrade to a service you
cannot have, we hope you understand."
Now that is shady.
-mb
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Stephen Partington <
cryptworks@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Cos is limiting all but their Gigablast service to 1T. Gigablast customers
> have 2T. With the overages thankfully it is available and it will save me
> money to run Gigablast vs ultimate and overages.
>
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Saul <saul@acalinas.com> wrote:
>
>> Interesting info. Cox in Mesa is limiting me to 1tb.
>>
>>
>> On 7/22/2017 9:18 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
>>
>> This is why Cox has now imposed a 1.5tb bandwidth cap on users. They
>> know everyone is cutting off their overpriced video, and now they're going
>> to charge you for the massive bandwidth that things like netflix use to
>> recoup some of that. Nothing is "free", so caveat emptor.
>>
>> Case in point, my aunt pinged me when Cox sent her the threat of overage
>> charges, where she really only does tv streaming. She was at least a 1tb
>> over their "normal" limit now, and would be charged accordingly. Only
>> things she really does is use Netflix and Vue for tv, but apparently enough
>> bandwith to exceed their cap, and she doesn't even do 4k content or have
>> kids soaking it up, where many do. I can only imagine the bandwidth needs
>> with a house full of kids doing the same, plus gaming and everything else...
>>
>> Still cheaper than paying for cable tv, but I presume their charging will
>> only rapidly escalate to offset their dying video/telephony services and
>> lack of anything else they can really charge for. Since every other
>> carrier is dogpiling in to slaughter and feast on the corpse of net
>> neutrality, Cox decided in their own interests to hop on he bandwagon too.
>> Thanks for all the fish, Trump.
>>
>> -mb
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Saul <saul@acalinas.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I prefer Playstation Vue.
>>>
>>> On 7/20/2017 5:00 PM, joe@actionline.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just signed up for YouTube TV streaming today
>>>> and cancelled DirecTV Now. YouTube is far,
>>>> far superior in every way plus unlimited DVR.
>>>>
>>>>
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