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But Comcast, owners of NBC, is responding to cord cutters (who cut cable but still have net from them) by boosting internet prices for those who still want to watch a lot of TV that way.
>>At a time when consumers stream more video and more movies than ever before, Comcast wants to limit the amount of data its broadband customers can use. Customers in some states, mostly in the Southeast, will soon have data caps of 300GB a month, and the new pricing model may go national before too long...Cord cutting is clearly behind Comcast’s new broadband data caps. The company likely hopes to have these caps in place before cord cutting truly goes mainstream and eats into its traditional source of revenue: pay TV services.
>>Cord cutting is a national, not regional, phenomenon so it seems likely that the company will eventually go national with its new pricing policy. In fact, a Comcast executive said last year that he expects the company to roll out “usage-based billing” — in other words, data caps — to all of its customers within five years