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US ISP CenturyLink is going to charge some customers for what it deems is excessive data use. Under the new excessive use policy, subscribers with 1.5Mbps plans will be told not to download more than 150GB a month, and those with faster broadband access will be given a 250GB limit. That's a soft limit – you'll simply get a …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Not quite accurate

    Centurylink has a soft cap of 250GB for those with plans offering more than 1.5 Mbps, but there are no fees for overage. I guess they warn you and possibly disconnect you if you keep exceeding it?

    They are trialing a new usage based billing scheme in Yakima, WA that presumably will eventually roll out everyone else that has a limit of 600 GB for those with plans offering more than 7 Mbps, and imposes fees for going over that.

    At 3 GB/hr for the highest quality HD streams from Netflix, you'd need to stream 200 hours a month to hit that. Possible for a big family I'm sure, but since I don't stream all that much or run Bittorrent, I've never encountered even the 250 GB cap I'm currently under.

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    1. diodesign (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge
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      Re: DougS

      Fixed - made it clear the charges are for a trial in Washington. Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.co.uk if you spot something wrong.

      C.

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  2. s. pam Silver badge
    Facepalm

    CenturyTel/Link has everyone hostage

    Nothing that people can do, in many cities like the one my Mum retired to outside Dallas they've locked entire towns where no other ISPs can get in. Then they start ratching up the bills and performance started to suffer more and more.

    I'm not in the least bit surprised nor was my Mum when I spoke to her. After all, at 81 she needs all the porn she can watch ;-)

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    1. swschrad
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      cat videos. it's now cat videos, not porn.

      everybody watches cat videos. especially grannies. (wink wink)

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