Comcast Raising Ceiling for Broadband Data Trials to 1 Terabyte [telecom]

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By Jeff Baumgartner, MultiChannel News, 4/27/2016

Comcast's controversial trial of usage-based broadband policies in select markets is going up a notch.

The operator announced in this blog post Thursday that it is moving to terabyte data plan in all of those test markets starting June 1, a decision that comes soon after the FCC announced several proposed conditions on the pending Charter-Time Warner Cable merger, including one that would prohibit Charter from imposing data caps and usage-based data pricing for a period of seven years.

Customers who go over that 1 TB monthly limit can buy additional buckets of 50 GB of data for $10 each, or move to a new unlimited data plan that runs an additional $50 per month.

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