[canada2us]

"Only about 5% of our customers use that much."

If only 5% uses 1.2TB each month, why would Comcast want to impose the cap to everyone?

Comcast has already made enough money and this move has nothing but against social good.

I am an international student from China in US. If you ever go to China, you will find how affordable Internet (or Phone Data plans) is. And it is even affordable in sparsely-populated rural areas, unlike the US rural areas I've heard of.

These big private companies are just lagging US behind and the country cannot do anything with it.

[bruceb]

If the hardware is made in china, the companies can get it for probably cheaper than anywhere in the world. Also the labor in china is dramatically cheaper. Is there a union of telecom workers in China? Of course China internet is going to be cheaper. That doesn't mean there should be such a difference between USA and China prices, but not surprised there is some, nor would I expect it to be the same or cheaper in the US. US has higher impute costs. As a pct of income of avg person what is internet access in China vs US?

This of course leave aside the what constitutes the internet you get in China vs USA

[mkmk]

Presumably they mean 5% of their customers use at least that much – some of them much more.