Comcast Sets Subscriber Bandwidth Limit

Comcast will cap Internet usage of its broadband subscribers at 250 Gigabytes per month -- a very large amount of data, the equivalent of 62,500 digital songs -- starting Oct 1. The operator Thursday posted an amendment to its terms of its "acceptable use policy" on Comcast.net, outlining the new guidelines. The cap of 250 Gbytes per month is "much more than a typical residential customer uses on a monthly basis," according to Comcast. Currently, the median monthly data usage by residential customers is approximately 2 to 3 Gbytes. Separately, Comcast faces a Sept 19 deadline, under an order by the Federal Communications Commission, to disclose details of how it has been "blocking" access to peer-to-peer applications and submit a compliance plan describing how it intends to stop the practice by the end of 2008.