The title says it all
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080908-comcast-pays-150k-to-put-end-to-florida-bandwidth-cap-probe.htmlDid Comcast's new bandwidth cap policy violate Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act? The ISP says it didn't do anything wrong—but will never do it again. And just to show good faith, the company will voluntarily pay the Florida Attorney General $150,000 and "conspicuously disclose" to its customers how much bandwidth they have to use, gigabyte-wise, to run afoul of Comcast's new bandwidth ceiling rules.
The Florida AG complained that when Comcast first assured customers that they would have to send out the equivalent of 20,000 high-res photos, or 40 million e-mails, or view 8,000 movie trailers to violate its rules against "excessive use," it didn't give them a specific numerical byte ceiling to watch out for. That might not sit right with the state's consumer protection laws.
It seems a few bucks in the right tin makes problems like this go away, I cant imagine anyone else besides an AG levering such a payout/payoff from Comcasts grasp, can you folks ?
