A Comcast Corporation spokesperson has confirmed that the company actively shuts down customers whose Internet activity exceeds 90 gigabytes per month, according to Wired Magazine’s blog network.
Comcast has become infamous for limiting their customers’ monthly network activity, but until now has refused to provide a hard number to clarify their definition of “excessive use”. GameDaily BIZ sought out an answer in order to clear the air for gamers worried about being disconnected for too much online play.
According to the spokesman who contacted GameDaily BIZ, someone who “downloads the equivalent of 30,000 songs, 250,000 pictures or 13 million emails in a month” is an excessive user. Using the average sizes for these types of files, Wired came to a figure of roughly 90 gigabytes.
The bad news is there’s now no question about whether Comcast terminates customers who spend what they consider to be too much time online. The good news is that 90 gigs is a pretty large number. Those who make a lot of iTunes purchases, or even spend hours on end connected to online gaming services such as XBox Live should be safe from Comcast’s disconnection fairies.
Photo: Greg O’Connell.
