No data caps: “Four simple national Internet tiers that include unlimited data.”…

With Comcast trying to figure out how to stop losing broadband customers, the cable firm yesterday announced new plans that are available nationwide and do not have data caps.

Comcast said it is offering “four simple national Internet tiers that include unlimited data and the advanced Xfinity WiFi Gateway for one low monthly price.” Customers whose current plans have data caps won’t automatically get unlimited data and would have to switch to a new plan to remove that annoying limit from their accounts.

“Customers can repackage into one of our new plans that include unlimited data if they don’t have it already with their existing plan,” a Comcast spokesperson told Ars today.

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  • paultimate14@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 days ago

    The data caps were why I left Comcast several years ago.

    Verizon has been… Fine. This change alone is not enough to make me switch back to Comcast. But it opens the option back up, which hopefully applies downard price pressure on both of the.

  • ORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Too little, too late, assholes. I pulled the plug and went to VZ wireless broadband. It’s more consistent, even if it’s a bit slower. It’s also half the price and I bundled it into my cellular plan.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        11·
        3 days ago

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_L._Roberts

        Comcast is described as a family business.[19] Brian L. Roberts, its chairman and CEO, is the son of founder Ralph J. Roberts (1920–2015). Roberts owns or controls about 1% of all Comcast shares but all of the Class B supervoting shares, giving him an “undilutable 33% voting power over the company”.[20] Legal expert and critic Susan P. Crawford has said this gives him “effective control over [Comcast’s] every step”.[21] In 2010, he was one of the highest paid executives in the United States, with total compensation of about $31 million.

  • Godnroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    The hilarious part is where it says they found two issues being price confusion and poor support. With them changing their plans to be less awful, that’s the triangle of everything they could be doing wrong being wrong.