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Comcast, the largest U.S. cable operator, said on Thursday it would cap customers' Internet usage starting Oct. 1, to ensure the best service for the vast majority of its subscribers. The company said it was setting a monthly data usage threshold of 250 gigabytes (GB) per account for all residential high-speed Internet customers, or the equivalent of 50 million e-mails or 124 standard-definition movies. "If a customer exceeds more than 250GB and is one of the heaviest data users who consume the most data on our high-speed Internet service, he or she may receive a call from Comcast's Customer Security Assurance group to notify them of excessive use," according to the company's updated Frequently Asked Questions on Excessive Use. RELATED ARTICLES Comcast Testing New Network Management BitTorrent Hits a Non-Comcast Bump Comcast Picks Up DailyCandy Lawsuit Seen After FCC's Comcast Ruling FCC: Traffic Throttling Not 'Comcastic' For more stories on this topic: Customers who top 250GB in a month twice in a six-month timeframe could have service terminated for a year. Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) said up to 99 percent of its 14 million Internet subscribers would not be affected by the new threshold, which it said would help ensure the quality of Internet delivery is not degraded by a minority of heavy users. As Web usage has rocketed, driven by the popularity of watching online video, photo-sharing and music downloading... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]
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