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Comcast Defends New $30 Surcharge For Unlimited Data

This week, Comcast told some Florida residents that they would now have data caps of 300GB, but could pay an extra $30 a month for unlimited data. After DSLReports wrote about the news, the company defended the new pricing as "part of our ongoing effort to create a fair, technologically-sound policy in which customers who use more data pay more, and customers who use less pay less."

DSLReports' Karl Bode disagrees. "Comcast's usage caps are effectively a price hike, and price hikes are only easily deployed in a market that lacks serious competition," he writes. "In short, Comcast's taking advantage of a lack of competition to jack up prices and protect its TV revenues from Internet video."

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