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On Gigaom.com, Om Malik enlightens us with more information on the Bandwidth capping that Comcast Cable will begin enforcing today - October 1st, 2008. This AUP from Comcast will limit each connection to only 250GB per month. Now that might seem a lot for one individual user. Maybe even for the average family. But, that is only nearsightedness on Comcast’s part. 7 years ago in 2001, even 250 MB a month was almost unheard of to the average user. Though, websites have changed, broadband has changed, technology has changed. What is considered “high” today will be normal in another 7 years - or maybe even as soon as 4.

With this move, the cable company will become the symbol of a new Internet era, one that is both monitored and metered. It is an era that threatens to limit innovation and to a large extent, the possibilities for new startups. ~Om Malik

In this article, Om Mali  writes about the White Paper that has been released giving the audience the whole story on how this move by Comcast Cable will affect us all.

In this, Om teams up with Muayyad Al-Chalabi, an alumnus of Bell Labs and until recently an analyst with The Monitor Group, to release this white paper, “Broadband Usage-Based Pricing and Caps Analysis.” 

According to Om, the aim of this paper is to “highlight the possible unintended consequences of such policies, among them the stunting of growth and innovation of web-based applications. And of course, higher costs.”

This is a very excellently written artile introducing the White Paper which educates us on the over all effect of this move (of Bandwidth Capping) by Comcast - and the short sightedness of it as well. They are looking out for themselves, not us. No conspiracy theory here - just plain facts.

The White Paper is included inline on GigaOm’s post and is well worthwhile for the read of it. If you would like a .pdf of the White Paper to read offline, that is also available as well on GigaOm’s post. I encourage you to read this and learn what is really going on - and how it will slow down innovation with technology in our future - and be a key factor in raising the prices for us all.

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