Science & technology | Telecoms regulation

Put a cap on it

Download limits seek to block video challengers without breaking net-neutrality rules

By G.F. | SEATTLE

COMCAST used to have a secret limit as to how much data it allowed its cable-broadband customers to consume each month. Subscribers would cross the limit, have their service cancelled, and be provided no recourse. America has adopted a soft-touch approach to regulating broadband, defined as an information service instead of a telecoms one, and the federal government prevents states' attorneys general from addressing complaints about service. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency which oversees such things, is mostly toothless when it comes to individual complaints.

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